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> youtube thumbnails are cancer anyway That's due to content creators, not YouTube.
by Yajirobe 7y ago
> youtube thumbnails are cancer anyway
That's due to content creators, not YouTube.
- bmn__ 7y agoIt's not that simple. YT pressures content creators into doing all sorts of stupid shit. They are made to think they don't really have a choice unless they want to risk their monetisation. One memorable particularity was YT prompting the content creators to make thumbnail images with grimacing faces, which IMO is cancerous. yt/user/theCodyReeder talked about it, but I cannot find the video any more, this was about two years ago.
- PX79 7y agoWhen YouTube (actively or not) incentivizes that style of thumbnails you cant really blame the creators. I've heard something like 20% more viewers based solely on having a more "creative" thumbnail.