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by ant_li0n 1375 days ago
The problem is it isn't "good" thumbnails. It's that stupid fucking, "who farted?" face. Or more often for young women, it's "Uh-oh, I did a bad thing" face.

I agree, race to the bottom of the brain stem. I sympathize with GP
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charcircuit 1375 days ago
It's not stupid if it works. It's not like it's YouTube who is deciding these types of thumbnails perform well. It's just that users engage with those kinds of thumbnails more.

The race is about making the best possible thumbnail based of empirical data and not aesthetics.

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meheleventyone 1374 days ago
Right but the context to this is not fixed and is human constructed. Just because a bad system produces undesirable outcomes doesn’t mean we have to shrug our shoulders as if this is the only possible state of things.
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