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spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• newthrowaway20@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s how YouTube content creators get recognized unfortunately. They gotta market themselves alongside their material, else they don’t get a following. Nature of the beast. I hate it too.

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  • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I kinda figured as much. I’m sure the content is fine on the vast majority of them but when I used to use YouTube as a form of entertainment those types of videos were not my cup of tea. Perhaps there is data to suggest we are outliers.

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    • Artaca@lemdro.id ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s an extension that makes all YT thumbnails generic stills from the video. I think it is called deArrow?

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• someguy3@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s the presenter.

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  • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That was my assumption but I was more wondering if there is research that shows this style is attention grabbing or yields more clicks or something.

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    • someguy3@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s incredibly normal that the thumbnail is the presenter in the video.

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      • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, I am aware.

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• mycroft@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  YouTube is cancer. They have made this the way you get content and likes. Creators spend hours trying to get a proper thumbnail since it has such a huge impact.

  Basically YouTube demands clickbait now.

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