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Re:No to Chrome by Yajirobe on Friday December 06, 2019 @09:00AM (#21721778)
> youtube thumbnails are cancer anyway

That's due to content creators, not YouTube.

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Re:No to Chrome by bmn__ on Friday December 06, 2019 @10:01AM (#21722316)
It'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.

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Re:No to Chrome by PX79 on Friday December 06, 2019 @10:14AM (#21722447)
When 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.
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