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by sksksk 1811 days ago
YouTube used to select the preview image by taking a freeze frame at a certain point in the video.

Older YouTubers used to manipulate this by putting the suggestive part of the video at the right time.

Here's a blast from the past doing just that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8tXjJL3xcM