Why did we allow this as a culture? S*** has 0 graphic design sense, it's all clickbait 9/10

I agree . It's because they're marketed towards kids

They're all just designed to pop as much as possible.

I've worked on projects where we need to deliver thumbnails and the more interesting, creative design doesn't really win it's just whatever is gonna get eyeballs in .02 seconds. Not even mad, it's f***ing youtube it doesn't need to be art, it's just what it is.

I've always thought YouTube in general is ugly as hell though.

Yea but it's the same think with video game covers and movie posters.

It's the death of aestheticism for the commodification of clicks it's just weird how it's just dudes face and some red circles, like hell it's funny to think like story time vloggers don't even have a unique design template or something ya know

Often the dope ones stays get poverty views lel

People just want to watch vids right away not appreciate thumbnails

I've thought about making a thread that lightly touches on this, specifically about if their is such a thing as "YouTube Trending Bait" music, and using thumbnails as a "aesthetic barometer" of sorts

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Youtube thumbnails be like

IS 5G KILLING KIDS????

The basic white outline over people ones are alright when done correctly

I hate the 😱 faces they all do tho

Some of my friends make videos and their thumbnails are disgusting ...stretched out vertical pictures, arial font etc makes me not wanna support sometimes lmao

Im sick of the gaming ones where they make the saturation like 999999999999999999999999999x times what the actual game looks like

i hate the youtube monoculture

i used to put solely anime characters as mine

Theyre just a level of irony above you bro dont take it personally

Youtube 2006-2010 >>>

Im not big on YouTube overall, but watch the occasional video. Casey Neistat comes to mind for the thumbnail topic. Idk how he is now versus before though.

twitter.com/ytthumbnails?s=21

This looks like one of those images they show you to see what having a stroke feels like

they are fire. Completely shameless and to the point. They get rid of all the unnecessary information. It reminds me of early webstores use to look in their simplicity

Looks dope who did this?

"I think they're fire" s*** I've seen 8th grade power points that look batter than these

Like I get the memey ones but the trends done in that site with the bold stroke/outlines god afwul fonts have to stop. It's like not even in line with graphic design trends that's why it boggles my mind and intrigues me so much

idk it was just in my phone

ok this genre of thumbnails is trash but the giant red circle and arrow era in 2016 was goated

Usually trash youtubers also got trash thumbnails