arxivcs.CV2026-07-19
BanClickThumb: A Multimodal Dataset and Transformer Fusion Benchmarks for Clickbait Detection in Bengali YouTube Videos
Md. Ariful Islam, Md Tanvirul Islam, Md. Maruf Hossain Miru, Md Khalid Syfullah
Clickbait, where video titles and thumbnails exaggerate or misrepresent content, reduces user trust, wastes attention, and promotes misinformation on video-sharing platforms. Detecting Bengali clickbait remains challenging because publicly available multimodal datasets are limite…