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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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