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YT would probably help this issue quite a bit by requiring thumbnails to be actual captures from the video content rather than up-loadable clickbait images... For years now their uploader only picks the 3 worst possible shots from content to be used, and channels create bright thumbnails that often don't reflect the actual content at all.

You get more views on any video by adding totally non-relevant thumbnails with colorful graphics and cleavage in them, and it's totally stupid when it comes to important topics that the absolute worst content ranks first because of what thumbnail it has.

I am exhausted with complaining about this issue, search results on YT have been totally maligned with finding the best content that I search reddit and Twitter now for useful YT content primarily. Also, the filter options are a total joke, and spammy titles are now rampant on the platform for everything.

MGMT should really feel ashamed for the lack of meaningful scaling over the years on the YT platform.



This is how it used to be but people would put a thumbnail into their video for 1 frame to then use it as the thumbnail.

I think at that time YouTube used to take the frame in the center of the video but I’m not so sure about that one.




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