I don’t understand the hate, this guy makes great videos.
No thank you.
I hate those obnoxious Youtube thumbnails.
Seriously. Why the hell is the guy’s face in there anyway? I would understand if it was Nvidia’s logo that was large as hell. I imagine it might be to tell his followers “it’s me” but whatever.
Because humans love faces. We love looking at them, we love seeing them. Our brains are wired to handle facial recognition very well and be drawn to faces.
In fact, the effect is so strong that we often see faces where none exist
People being drawn to faces has led to thumbnails with faces on getting far more attention. Tbh, if you were trying to make a YT channel your job, it’s very likely you’d start doing it too, you’d be actively sabotaging yourself for the sake of pride otherwise.
Well, I hate human faces on youtube video thumbnails.
I want to see a preview of the content instead of being biologically exploited into clicking on it.
For anyone who feels the same way: https://dearrow.ajay.app/
Unfortunately it has been proven that putting a stupid human face into the thumbnail makes your audience much bigger. It would be nice if YouTube had a “show stupid face” option.
Weird, a grimace in the thumbnail usually drives me away, because it implies overstipulated trivia for teens to me.
The reverse exists, there is the DeArrow extension which removes thumbnails like this and replaces it with a crowdsourced frame of the video.
