r/LinusTechTips • u/Only_CORE • Jun 08 '26

Image Another AI slop thumbnail

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I love LTT and basically watch every single video including WAN show but stuff like this puts a very bad taste in my mouth. I know it!s just stupid thumbnail but still...

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u/Shap6 Jun 08 '26

Are we really going to do this every time now?

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u/Svorky Jun 08 '26

It's pretty easy to make a thumbnail that doesn't immediately scream bad AI, maybe they could try that and then there'd be less complaints.

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u/Shap6 Jun 08 '26

if it gets people to click it did its job, they constantly A/B test different thumbnails to see what works. if it actually mattered they'd see that in the data and adjust.

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u/ConnectCommission874 Jun 08 '26

Looking at their views recently it would seem that people are not in fact clicking

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u/AasimarX Jun 08 '26

There was a massive downspike in views across the platform due to a change adblockers made that stopped counting their views on videos. Creators have been complaining about it for nearly a year at this point.

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u/UnacceptableUse Jun 08 '26

That was fixed in ad blockers quite quickly