I want a script which hides all videos which have a thumbnail of a person with their mouth open. Way too many creators have been using that now a days.
I use this, which uses crowd sourced thumbnails from within the video https://dearrow.ajay.app works really well. Made by the dev that made SponsorBlock
As annoying as it is, I remember a channel I subscribed to once mentioned that they did a little AB experimentation and turns out “surprised face” thumbnails do actually attract more views.
I don't doubt that at all. But that's turned into way too many creators using it as the default expression in every thumbnail. I remember visiting a true crime channel and all their videos had the same face....
That's a planned feature [1] - we'll probably add a new item to video menus which lets you flag a channel for reaction faces, then replace their thumbnails with another frame from the video
Am I on a different YouTube than yours? Or perhaps the algorithm is working well. I rarely see them.
btw, instead of doing all of those, isn't it just a straight forward thing to, say, just create good content -- it will start paying off way better off in longer term, if not immediately?
