Comment on Your RAM Has a 60 Year Old Design Flaw. I Bypassed It.

• ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  90% of thumbnails have a face in them, usually of an exaggerated strong emotion, and that goes for both male and female youtubers. Many youtubers have confirmed time and time again that the algorithm favors faces by a pretty wide margin, and thus most play that game.

  I’m not a fan of it, I wish they didn’t, but I understand why they do. Though I don’t think it’s particularly gendered as your image claims.

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  • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Having a face on them is one thing. Sometimes the person is the subject of the video, and it’s worth highlighting that in the video.

    Having the person making the video staring at the camera, in a pose that says “look at how attractive I am” is another.

    Also, this is not as hard and fast as you make it out. Here, I’ll post some random examples in my feed:

    • No face
    • Indirect faces for a video game
    • No face
    • Face looking away, subject of video
    • Not really faces
    • Faces from video game subject
    • Staring directly at the camera to make it look like some serious meta video, when it’s really an April Fool’s joke (this is the exception that proves how ridiculous it is)
    • No face
    • Faces, but the main focus of the video

    In fact, I had to dig to find videos that would really qualify:

    • Two faces staring into the camera, but they are properly framed and surrounded by the subject of the video
    • Reaction shot face, but at least it’s not taking up the entire frame
    • Mutahar’s mug behind his junky desk, but that’s all of his videos and I wished he put more effort into his thumbnails and presentation

    Even (most) of the female YouTubers on my feed aren’t falling for it:

    • Earlybird
    • Maangchi
    • Pushing Up Roses, besides the occasion "reaction face"
    • CrystAAHHL, just to show that I’m not cherry-picking, yes, she does the reaction face way too much

    Meanwhile, LaurieWired’s entire catalogue is “look how attractive my face is!” This one doesn’t even have the subject in the thumbnail! It’s just her walking in a park. Also, what’s up with her videos from two years ago? Did she completely change her makeup style just to look more attractive in thumbnails?

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    • TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      She’s literally just doing her own version of the MrBeast face. It’s not even that unique. Half the people I watch on YouTube slap their face in their thumbnail, and I don’t watch clickbaity slop.

      Just install DeArrow, enable thumbnails through it if needed, and move on.

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    • Numuruzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ayo i think maybe u just like her face lol

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• Redjard@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Females

  jucky.

  Also probably a function of the intended audience. Only happens when content farming stuff that hits a certain audience, and then it’s equally done by all creators. If you’re not an attractive woman you just put someone else in the thumbnail, like someone you interviewed, or if it’s game-related a character.

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