This community needs to grow up about AI

I genuinely do not understand this holier than thou ideology running rampant in this community. Why people think their personal opinions and stances on AI are relevant to feedback is beyond me. There are thousands of successful channels that not only use AI thumbnails, but have entire videos and channels ran on AI. You know why? Because the audience. Watches it.

People don’t care if it’s AI, they care if they’re entertained, informed, or distracted for however long they have. Your moral righteousness on AI has no barrings on the real world, and this line of thinking is exactly why some of you can not make successful thumbnails: You don’t know what people want. You make what you think people would want.

AI is a tool. Use or don’t. But get over self either way.

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u/Waiting404Godot — 2 days ago

Can't tell if there's too much on the screen or not "clickable" enough

Title: "What Games You Should Play In July" or something to that effect posed as a question

For some reason, this thumbnail is hurting my eyes. I can't tell if I've just been looking at the screen too long or if there's just too much happening with it.

u/Waiting404Godot — 3 days ago

I tried to warn you about EoA

A few weeks ago I made a video titled “This is not the SAO game we’ve been asking for.” I tried to tell people, this is still a Bandai game at heart and there was no reason to expect a higher quality game than what we’ve seen before, I tried to warn people it was being overhyped and over glazed. Instead I was downvoted and told this is exactly what the people wanted.

And now you see the game for what it is. “It’s just a demo” lol, okay. I will warn you all once again:

This is an SAO game- probably the best SAO game we’ve had in years, but the best of a low quality series isn’t saying much.

I’m loving the demo, I’m having a lot of fun, I’ll probably get 100’s of hours of value out of the game. But I also know exactly the type of game I am getting.

They hated me cause I told the truth: This is a great SAO game, but a great SAO game is still worse than your average JRPG.

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u/Waiting404Godot — 18 days ago

Last two Thumbnails have 8.4% and 5.2% CTR, both videos are about a single video game. Just wanted to share my thoughts on them

Hey I really appreciate this sub and I'm always asking or giving advice here. If this post isn't appropriate then feel free to remove. Also, if anyone has feedback or things I could improve please let me know.

Video titles: 1. Echoes of Aincrad is NOT the game "fans have been asking for" 2. 5 Reasons I'm looking forward to Echoes of Aincrad

I know a lot of channels here are video game based and struggle to get a higher CTR. I'm by no means an expert do I do notice some things that people do consistently that I don't think is necessary. For one, less is more. These two thumbnails have exactly 4 elements. A large focused character, short text, a background, and a red box for emphasis.

The characters have a high resolution and recognizable character while having an outline to help with visibilty. Frankly, I only use the character outline because it's trending in this video format and will test if it's even helping (A/B test just used different color outlines instead of no outline). I think it's easier to break into the game sphere than people realize, but your thumbnails/titles have to bring something unique.

u/Waiting404Godot — 1 month ago

Echos Of Aincrad Looks Great, but it is NOT what "Fans have been asking for"

Fairly light hearted jab at some of the content creators that don't even play SAO games or watch SAO telling fans this is the game we've wanted. Echo's of Aincrad looks like an overall great game, but to say it's what we've been asking is beyond a stretch.

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u/Waiting404Godot — 1 month ago

Video Title: Should you watch "The Warrior Princess and The Barbarian King" or "This is certainly on the romance Anime's of the season"

Description: A 4-5 minute review of the first three episodes of the anime The Warrior Princess and The Barbarian King and whether I recommend continuing to watch it or dropping the series based on the three episode rule.

I would like a blueprint or "brand" for the series, number #3 is a mock up. Ideally I'd want 2 characters then the "Drop or watch" slogan. #4 is what AI made but I don't want to use AI.

u/Waiting404Godot — 2 months ago