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Re:The Next Chapter for Learning on YouTube by charcircuit on Friday September 09, 2022 @04:51PM (#32784751)
Having good thumbnails and tiles is just marketing. If you want to sell or get the word out about what you are offering it helps to have a good marketing effort. Yes, creating the material is a lot of work, but that doesn't mean that marketing is something that doesn't need hard work.
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Re:The Next Chapter for Learning on YouTube by ant_li0n on Friday September 09, 2022 @05:02PM (#32784871)
The problem is it isn't "good" thumbnails. It's that stupid fucking, "who farted?" face. Or more often for young women, it's "Uh-oh, I did a bad thing" face.

I agree, race to the bottom of the brain stem. I sympathize with GP

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Re:The Next Chapter for Learning on YouTube by charcircuit on Friday September 09, 2022 @08:24PM (#32786466)
It's not stupid if it works. It's not like it's YouTube who is deciding these types of thumbnails perform well. It's just that users engage with those kinds of thumbnails more.

The race is about making the best possible thumbnail based of empirical data and not aesthetics.

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Re:The Next Chapter for Learning on YouTube by meheleventyone on Saturday September 10, 2022 @04:33AM (#32788903)
Right but the context to this is not fixed and is human constructed. Just because a bad system produces undesirable outcomes doesn’t mean we have to shrug our shoulders as if this is the only possible state of things.
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Re:The Next Chapter for Learning on YouTube by joegahona on Friday September 09, 2022 @05:28PM (#32785142)
It's succumbing to these [1] types of thumbnails that it sounds like the GP is trying to avoid having to do.

Andrew Huberman has tame thumbnail images that are professional and informative. Like others have said, there has to be a middle ground to explore.

[1] https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nZQgszA0_80/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwE...

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Re:The Next Chapter for Learning on YouTube by ekianjo on Friday September 09, 2022 @10:55PM (#32787281)
> Having good thumbnails and tiles is just marketing

are you seriously going to pretend that optimizing for the most cringy thumbnails , because its a race to the bottom on Youtube, is marketing?

this is a ridiculous take.

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Re:The Next Chapter for Learning on YouTube by charcircuit on Friday September 09, 2022 @11:56PM (#32787669)
Yes, but it's not about making cringe and it's not a race to the bottom.

I don't see how it's not marketing? YouTube is willing to promote your video for free and asks you to upload some promotional material for them to use.

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