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[-] muhyb@programming.dev 66 points 2 years ago

I hate those obnoxious Youtube thumbnails.

[-] Quintus@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 years ago

Seriously. Why the hell is the guy's face in there anyway? I would understand if it was Nvidia's logo that was large as hell. I imagine it might be to tell his followers "it's me" but whatever.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 35 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately it has been proven that putting a stupid human face into the thumbnail makes your audience much bigger. It would be nice if YouTube had a "show stupid face" option.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

The reverse exists, there is the DeArrow extension which removes thumbnails like this and replaces it with a crowdsourced frame of the video.

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

Huh, nice extension. Thanks for the heads up.

[-] electro1@infosec.pub 5 points 2 years ago

I like that this exists but I don't want to use it because i want to know the content creatos to avoid, thumbnails are part of the game, but putting your face on them feels like a cheap trick ( since it's unecessary ), effective.. yes... but cheap..

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago

Weird, a grimace in the thumbnail usually drives me away, because it implies overstipulated trivia for teens to me.

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I feel the same way but Brodie's usually fine

[-] cheezits@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago

Because its proven to generate more views, why do people criticize the guy for trying to make a living? Literally every other big youtuber does this... Its effective. I do not understand why people hate someone for complying to an industry norm. Do you also hate real estate agents for putting their smiling face on billboards? Lol.

[-] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 years ago

Do you also hate real estate agents for putting their smiling face on billboards?

Yes, we do in fact!

[-] cheezits@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Okay, I'm sorry clearly I'm the irrational one.

[-] Regalia 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What? I thought Nvidia didn't want to mainline the open driver??

Edit: Grrrr, clickbait. This is not about their open driver but as far as I understood about exposing a more minimal driver for vGPU usage, in light of development of Nova, a Rust based nouveau successor.

[-] Beaver@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 years ago

I don’t understand the hate, this guy makes great videos.

[-] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 years ago

No, he doesn't. He's obnoxious.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's probably the thumbnail, but I can't do much about that.

[-] aluminium@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

He reads article or forum thread. Thats it.

[-] electro1@infosec.pub 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

how so ? he isn't saying anything really... because he rarely says an opinion of his own, and when he does he does so briefly... like he grabbed it from someone 👀... yeah.. why I'm not surprised every video idea he has is LITERALLY stollen from a Reddit post or a comment ( source : him )..

plus anyone can go and read from a blog post or a github discussion and come out with same amount of information if not more...

lastly quantity over quality: this complements my last point, because the only way to make a quality video is by doing deep research، these YouTubers skip shit ton of critical information, and it makes people have a flawed perspective

less than 2 days to research, record, and edit and make a thumbnail ? Seriously ?! It should tell you something is off

[-] sndmn@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

No thank you.

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