• spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    What’s with the thumbnail? Videos with thumbnails like this are a sure fire way to get me to not watch it.

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      9 months ago

      It’s how YouTube content creators get recognized unfortunately. They gotta market themselves alongside their material, else they don’t get a following. Nature of the beast. I hate it too.

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        9 months ago

        I kinda figured as much. I’m sure the content is fine on the vast majority of them but when I used to use YouTube as a form of entertainment those types of videos were not my cup of tea. Perhaps there is data to suggest we are outliers.

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          9 months ago

          There’s an extension that makes all YT thumbnails generic stills from the video. I think it is called deArrow?

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      9 months ago

      YouTube is cancer. They have made this the way you get content and likes. Creators spend hours trying to get a proper thumbnail since it has such a huge impact.

      Basically YouTube demands clickbait now.

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      9 months ago

      I have literally never watched her videos because all the thumbnails are cringy.

      Besides I’d rather not watch a content creator that bends over backwards for youtube’s algorithm.

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          9 months ago

          IDC If people think YouTube’s algorithm is better at quantifying quality content then themselves maybe we are lost.