• datavoid@lemmy.ml
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      8 hours ago

      Precisely the thumbnail that would prevent you from getting scammed.

      But… ya, that is the worst possible style of thumbnail regardless.

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        4 hours ago

        So, what thumbnail do you suggest? Can you post a thumbnail with your ideal design in mind?

        The point of a thumbnail is to attract viewers to your video, among the sea of millions of other videos that get posted every day. How do you propose they do that?

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          19 minutes ago

          I would generally suggest using thumbnails that don’t provoke clicking through annoyance. Anything involving heavily edited human faces, stupid expressions, text that could be inferred from the title, or the classic huge red arrows, is in my opinion either trying to appeal to children or get people annoyed enough to click to see what the video is about.

          Source - have spent way, way too much time on YouTube. PS do yourself a favour and install dearrow.