Why do YouTubers use the same opening line in every video

[StarStruck]

Like Leo's old opener:

"heeeeeEEEEeey"

Or other YouTubers who use the same opener all the time. For example:

"Hi, my beautiful friends"

Or in the like.

To me it is very annoying. It comes across gimmicky. 

[Roy]

To program our simple ape brains with something consistent.

Like how every single thumbnail ever now is bright text in all caps with the creator making some dumb fucking face.

And the title is "See how X person got DESTROYED!"

[lostingenosmaze]

22 hours ago, StarStruck said:

Like Leo's old opener:

"heeeeeEEEEeey"

I remember personally boycotting his videos for a while solely because he stopped using that as his intros, I still miss it, bring it back @Leo Gura ?

[StarStruck]

@Roy everybody does it so it looses its effectiveness. 

[museumoftrees]

Brand is built through repetition.

[LSD-Rumi]

I miss the "heyyyy" times ?

[Carl-Richard]

I'm going to geek the hell out of this, but why do you say "hello" when you greet someone? It's a ritual that establishes connection. When you're greeting your close friends, you might develop your own way of greeting, signalling a special kind of connection. Greeting your YouTube audience is just like that. All these various kinds of social cues are contextual markers for how to behave, and I think that is fundamentally why we use them. When you hear "heeey it's Leo", you know it's Leo time and it's time to listen carefully. When you hear "waddup it's ya boy Skinny Penis", that sets a different tone.

Edited May 1, 2023 by Carl-Richard

[Seth]

[hyruga]

It's programming. It's their routine.

[Schizophonia]

It is manipulation.

When the west was patriarchal and "yang", people shunned the cameras and didn't even smile in the pictures.

[Dauntment]

Monkey see Monkey do. Do NOT underestimate how powerful aping is among the human mind....