Slop thumbnails for slop content
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Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2 months ago
Wtf with the pic ? How dumb must you be to take it seriously, right ? What do you think ?
astraeus@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
hOrni@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The dude is serious and focused. The girl is ready to receive a load on her face. The second girl, I’m pretty sure, I saw on r/roastme.
Zephorah@discuss.online 2 months ago
That’s how all the thumbnails work now. Even HCR started a lighter version of it post Trump win, and she was very basic, straight up content prior.
Thumbnails/algorithm have killed hobby channels, like woodworking and sewing, all of it.
We need an “anti” algorithm slam on YT to fix it, but I doubt there are enough creators/makers/whatevers willing to engage such an operation en masse. Journalism/podcasts have always leaned on the present state of the algorithm.
The other issue is the thumbnails exist as they do due to the predominance of phone users over laptops/desktops. It’s a size thing. The thumbnail is designed for small phone screen reading.