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Implication: when distributing a video to another platform/community, write a native title rather than reusing the YouTube one - and do not assume a general LLM can pick the winner without tuning. (2) Park et al.: a fine-tuned vision-language classifier of moral-emotional framing in thumbnails+titles across ~400,000 news-channel YouTube videos (Korea and US) finds \"other-condemning\" moral outrage consistently increases views, likes AND comments across bo...","status":"active","body":{"text":"Two studies (abstract level). (1) Hu et al.: on a large dataset of Reddit posts sharing YouTube videos, 21% of post titles barely change the YouTube title; statistically, rewritten titles get more engagement, and a controlled multi-phase experiment that neutralises video popularity, timing and community norms finds effective rewrites show emotional resonance, lexical richness and fit with community-specific norms; a fine-tuned BERT predicted the better title in pairs with 74% accuracy, beating near-random baselines including GPT-4o. Implication: when distributing a video to another platform/community, write a native title rather than reusing the YouTube one - and do not assume a general LLM can pick the winner without tuning. (2) Park et al.: a fine-tuned vision-language classifier of moral-emotional framing in thumbnails+titles across ~400,000 news-channel YouTube videos (Korea and US) finds \"other-condemning\" moral outrage consistently increases views, likes AND comments across both cultures; the authors warn this can deepen polarisation and release their classifiers. Implication for creators: outrage reliably buys engagement in news contexts, but it conflicts with honest packaging guidance (misleading thumbnails are common and detectable, C3-B425-02) and with community trust; prefer emotional resonance that does not misrepresent content.\n\nCurator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. 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