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Most of those are just manually selected thumbnails by the uploader. After uploading, YT gives you 3-5 thumbnails you can choose from. Also, partnered accounts
by nacs 11y ago
Most of those are just manually selected thumbnails by the uploader. After uploading, YT gives you 3-5 thumbnails you can choose from.
Also, partnered accounts are allowed to upload custom thumbnails (which can be any image, not necessarily even a screenshot from the video).
- JoshTriplett 11y ago> After uploading, YT gives you 3-5 thumbnails you can choose from. Can you pick an arbitrary video frame, or only one of the suggested thumbnails?
- nacs 11y agoIt automatically captures 3 different thumbnails (I guess using the algorithm in OP) and lets you select any 1 of those 3.
- lumpypua 11y agoI presume they use the image selection as training data too—if not that seems like awfully low hanging data fruit.
- chadzawistowski 11y agoMany videos seem to have completely arbitrary thumbnails which are not from the video. Most of the Epic Rap Battles videos, for example. Perhaps this option 'unlocks' after you reach a certain subscriber count.
- JoshTriplett 11y agoAs mentioned upthread: > partnered accounts are allowed to upload custom thumbnails (which can be any image, not necessarily even a screenshot from the video).
- baddox 11y agoNot just partnered accounts. My YouTube account lets me upload custom thumbnails, and I'm certainly not followed. I have maybe a couple dozen videos with maybe a few hundred views among them all.
- ZeroGravitas 11y agoIs this definitely not algorithmic? I've been noticing for a while that videos might have an incidental flash of cleavage and then that is used as the thumbnail. I'd always wondered if this was arising "naturally" somehow (people pausing that scene perhaps?) On the basis of the type if video I'd discounted manual intervention. Though if people can just upload any image I'm now surprised that they're not all like this.