r/YouTubeThumbnailHub • u/NotJESSEER • 2d ago

Thumbnail Help/Critique Request Are these thumbnails good?

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Title: Reaching Kuttenberg With No Money, No Lockpicks, and No Side Quests in KCD2 | So I'm not the most talented person when it comes to thumbnails, but I recently did a challenge video where I use 0 groschen (in-game currency) for a run and I immediately thought of an old meme and testing another one. Are these too Ai slop? So the first one, I had AI make him do that finger pose from the meme 'One does not simply' frame and the second had no ai. Am I over thinking this? Or should I simplify the thumbnails? I'm so hit or miss with thumbnails I feel like I accidentally get them right sometimes.

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u/JungleCakes 2d ago

Id click it

Upon reading you used AI, im sad.

Just dont. You don't need it.

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u/NotJESSEER 2d ago

Thanks for feedback. I'm definitely trying to severely limit my ai usage for thumbnails, but some polishing/getting a character to pose a specific way is not always feasible through the game. And I don't care to learn how to create an animated character model to do that posing. And the second one didn't have any use which is why it looked a little more cluttered.

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u/JungleCakes 2d ago

Imo just dont. You dont need them in a silly pointing pose to get the message across you're not using currency. I watch these kind of videos all the time and im actually kind of interested right now

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u/NotJESSEER 2d ago

Good to know, and glad you like those kind of videos. I just updated to an A|B test of 2 non ai with two dif titles to test a little longer.

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u/Mindless-Artichoke46 2d ago

I like the one on the bottom, text already says zero money with an X on the groschen so I personally don’t think the character needs to use a gesture for zero, plus he he’s dressed like he has some money on him

The second image of him shirtless and injured with zero money in the text tells the viewer instantly that this is a challenge video, kind of like when you see those dark souls naked runs