• ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s how YouTube content creators get recognized unfortunately. They gotta market themselves alongside their material, else they don’t get a following. Nature of the beast. I hate it too.

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      1 year ago

      I kinda figured as much. I’m sure the content is fine on the vast majority of them but when I used to use YouTube as a form of entertainment those types of videos were not my cup of tea. Perhaps there is data to suggest we are outliers.

      • Artaca@lemdro.id
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        1 year ago

        There’s an extension that makes all YT thumbnails generic stills from the video. I think it is called deArrow?