• Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    5 months ago

    Unfortunately it has been proven that putting a stupid human face into the thumbnail makes your audience much bigger. It would be nice if YouTube had a “show stupid face” option.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 months ago

      The reverse exists, there is the DeArrow extension which removes thumbnails like this and replaces it with a crowdsourced frame of the video.

      • 乇ㄥ乇¢ㄒ尺ㄖ@infosec.pub
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        5 months ago

        I like that this exists but I don’t want to use it because i want to know the content creatos to avoid, thumbnails are part of the game, but putting your face on them feels like a cheap trick ( since it’s unecessary ), effective… yes… but cheap…

    • MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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      5 months ago

      Weird, a grimace in the thumbnail usually drives me away, because it implies overstipulated trivia for teens to me.