I was just watching youtube and I saw a thumbnail and thought… you ever click on a youtube video because of the thumbnail? I mean the thumbnail not the title. Not the description. Good thumbnails are fucking everything. They get me every damn time. I don’t care what the title says if that thumbnail looks nice, im clicking it and not even reading the title.
Ive clicked on some videos just because the thumbnail was good or had text that was very intriguing. The video might not be intriguing or engaging or good but the thumbnail made me click it. But when the thumbnail is trash, im talking utter poopy garbage, I don’t even wanna get close to it. My mouse cursor might get dirty if I hover over it and id have to go to devientart to find new ones. It sometimes offs me from the entire channel. sure, photoshop is not something everyone knows how to use but even ms paint can yield better results than doo doo tier thumbnails ive laid my eyes upon for last few months.
The worst part is that its all the same stuff. Big ass face, overedited background “YOU WOULDN’T BELIEVE HE SAID THAT”. Buddy, I can totally believe someone said those words that you are referring to that’s how humans work we speak.
About faces though, sometimes they add to thumbnail. Ive clicked some video specifically because youtuber was on thumbnail. I believe this words great especially if you already have a good subscriber base. I can look at a thumbnail and go ‘yeah that’s Rhett and link,’ or ‘yep that’s erik from internet comment etiquette, I see his new video is out’. But when it comes to faces like a guy with his mouth gaping and 100 arrows pointing to something or when face is clearly been heavily edited in photoshop or background is just cgi on a video that is supposed to be not cgi, it puts me off.
And yes I know there exist an extension called De-arrow that removes this stuff but it removes all of this stuff, even the good ones. It also changes the title to be less clickbaity. But the fatal flaw with this is that most of the times I really don’t care about thumbnail from actual video or non clickbaity title. My doors are open for you to exploit me by showing my the most clickbait title or thumbnail possible but please atleast make it look good.
Also, make sure your text on thumbnail is large. Sometimes you put text that might look large on photshop when a single image is taking over the entire screen but when it get smooshed down to tiny size in home page, it becomes hard to read and I may be 25 but my eye sigh is 85 (that’s age not score)
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