Why is half the info on the image some random smiling face?
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2023
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It’s been super clearly demonstrated that you have to have thumbnails like that for your videos to be successful on YouTube.
You can be annoyed by it, and in fact, a ton of creators hate it. But it’s really not the creators’ fault that they have to do this.
Ah, so it's a prisoner's dilemma, kinda thing.
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