YouTube is pretty much like this but it's the creators selecting the thumbnails.
The most common thumbnail I see is a picture of someone looks like they are blown away with their hands on their head and their mouth wide open.
The most common thumbnail I see is a picture of someone looks like they are blown away with their hands on their head and their mouth wide open.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clickbait-rem...
(also, I'm kind of curious in a disgusted way about what content creators would do if they had to optimize for that metric)
Veritasium actually did an interesting episode recently about how the major YouTubers optimize their titles and thumbnails using real time data now to figure out what works to go more viral. And apparently there's a convergence on "shocked" face.
I suppose we're hard wired to look for shocked expressions.
But, having watched the 'crate challenge' that is hot on IG and TT, I'm thinking my thumbnail comment might be giving adults too much credit.
freetube client allows you to control how thumbnails are displayed; default - youtube one or manual fetch frame from beginning, mid or end of the video