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What's with the stupid poses on YouTube thumbnails....?




And this odious cunt is the biggest offender:

 

[Cunth]

i like linus

 

[a multicultural team of v]

The bigger question is why do these retarded poses work?

(Answer: Idiocracy was a documentary)

 

[Nymphae]

They're easy to parse and feature the thing the video is about and the face of the person in the video. I don't have any particular love for them either but it's easy to see what they are trying to achieve, you see this on every type of YT video imaginable welcome to the internet friend

 

[SKM1]

It's just a way of making the thumbnail more interesting. Human (mostly) face expressions communicate huge amounts of data which makes the thumbnail inherently more distinctive.

Selection processes (which happen in YouTube naturally because of the high traffic) have this outcome.

Some creepy/weird outcomes of these processes are exemplified by the following picture:

In short: blame the normies.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

i like linus

All youtubers have those weird soy faces in the thumbnails.

 

[teezzy]

I remember when linus first started doing this. He made a video explaining his motives moving forward. They're only making these videos to generate income. Let them do what they need to.

 

[TaySan]

They help generate clicks and they work.

 

[HoodWinked]

Ya I despise all of them other than Dave Lee and Mr Mobile.

 

[HeadsUp7Up]

What's with the stupid poses on YouTube thumbnails....?




And this odious cunt is the biggest offender:

Depending on the photo it makes me avoid certain videos.