I hate those obnoxious Youtube thumbnails.
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.
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.
The reverse exists, there is the DeArrow extension which removes thumbnails like this and replaces it with a crowdsourced frame of the video.
Huh, nice extension. Thanks for the heads up.
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…
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Weird, a grimace in the thumbnail usually drives me away, because it implies overstipulated trivia for teens to me.
I feel the same way but Brodie’s usually fine
Because humans love faces. We love looking at them, we love seeing them. Our brains are wired to handle facial recognition very well and be drawn to faces.
In fact, the effect is so strong that we often see faces where none exist
People being drawn to faces has led to thumbnails with faces on getting far more attention. Tbh, if you were trying to make a YT channel your job, it’s very likely you’d start doing it too, you’d be actively sabotaging yourself for the sake of pride otherwise.
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.
Do you also hate real estate agents for putting their smiling face on billboards?
Yes, we do in fact!
Okay, I’m sorry clearly I’m the irrational one.
Totally agree. The content may be good, but title and thumbnail are marketing only. A silly thumbnail doesn’t make the content worse, so nothing wrong in the creator trying to use it as a way to increase their reach
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.
I don’t understand the hate, this guy makes great videos.
No, he doesn’t. He’s obnoxious.
It’s probably the thumbnail, but I can’t do much about that.
He reads article or forum thread. Thats it.
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
No thank you.
Why? You get a kick from your GPU drivers being a proprietary black box or something?
It’s Nvidia. That’s not going to change.
No thanks to random YouTube accounts or proprietary hardware.
