I can understand that Dave was making a video about it as
1) never has done that before and
Correct.
Well, I've done one for probes, but not for front ends.
2) with the teaser "shocking" in large letters, implying a sensation, it gives him a nice coverage and raising view-figures (=money).
Utter rubbish.
I made $104 from that video
That doesn't even pay for my time to make it.
I could likely have made more if I simply did the review I started out doing, when 5 minutes into doing that video I noticed that touch screen trigger thing.
I simply thought it was interesting and and incredibly ironic thing that touching the (much touched) big screen caused a signal impulse. So thought it would make an interesting video.
It really does bug me when people say I do videos for the money, they have absolutely no clue
But just the fact that it seems new for most people, it also shows, that it was not a problem in the past 20 years in any real world setup - because then we would have found out before.
I like many of Daves videos and they are often quite helpful. But here you should leave off the "shocking" and should have just made an educational video as usual.
Seriously? You don't get why I did that?
I added the "shocking" because it's a cute play on words. You know, piezoelectric shock response. Plus the fact that many people would (and were) quite shocked to actually find out such a thing happens. Plus the fact that I was quite shocked personally to find that a simple tap on the touchscreen could do that.
So there are three reasons why it was a perfectly valid title to choose.
You really think a simple play on worlds title detracts from the education content of that video? Seriously?
FYI, as a full time Youtuber who's future ultimately relies upon my content getting viewed, yes I make no excuses that I often with chose an attention grabbing title and an eye catches thumbnail. Any professional Youtuber who doesn't is a fool.
And it's NOT clickbait, my titles and thumbnails are never misleading. Often carefully chosen, yes, misleading, no.
Do I think it's a problem, yes.
Do I think it's a major problem, no.
But it's a fact that the problem
can still happen in a real world measurement situation with a x10 probe.
I could have simply just short a much shorted video with just the R&S scope and made it look like this was the worst scope in history, but no, I was fair and included every other scope I had in the lab to show people that it happens with every scope to some degree.