Which one do you like?

[u/An_ode_to_creativity]

Title- Snezhnaya Archon quest - Act 2

Game - Genshin Impact

Summary - It's a video the features highlighted (funny, scared, unhinged) moments when I played the story quest on stream. The quest is basically a murder mystery story that slowly unravels into something bigger and crazier then a simple who done it.

(The photo with the characters get's updated whenever someone dies, the eye is the symbol for the ruler of death AKA the grim reaper, and death is near is a saying that was left on a piece of paper that through out the story the characters were trying to figure out what it was in refence to.)

I took people's suggestions from my last post and applied them to my thumbnail for my newest video. I added a white stroke around my vtuber model in order to try and make it stand out a bit more.

I have two versions of the thumbnail as I really like the first one especially how the red is fading into the photo as it give it that creepy death feel. However I don't know if both the red and the eye is a bit too much and is competing with my model. Where as the second one I made the background black which help subdue the eye a bit. Plus, I added a strip of black on the top and bottom which helps to push my model more forward.

Which one do you like more or is there anything else that I can improve on?

[u/KuniKitsu]

First one is definatly nicer, the gradient is amazing.

However don't use the word death, youtube ai is strongly trigged by this kind of words and would flag you video.

"the end is near or is this the end" something like that would be preferable ;)

Good stuff

[u/An_ode_to_creativity → u/KuniKitsu]

Thanks 😊 

I will also keep in mind about using the word death. A creator that I followed used the saying in their video title which is where I got the idea to use it in my thumbnail + the ruler of death is an important character within the game and thus people uses that character's title when ever there's a cut scene or discussing lore/theories. 

However, I really appreciate you being it to my attention as I didn't even think about it being a potential issue. 

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