Why is half the info on the image some random smiling face?
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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