Long considered the bait-and-switch of the YouTube community, videos with suggestive images at the 25/50/75 marks will no longer be automatically selected as thumbnail choices for videos on YouTube.
YouTube announced today several changes in their system that would allow for a friendlier place for all viewers. One of these changes is the algorithm in which youTube chooses thumbnails. Now, thumbnails for videos will be chosen algorithmically based on your video’s whole content, which means that inserting boob shots or images of two girls kissing at 25/50/75 points in the video will no longer matter.
I expect the Most Viewed section on the YouTube page to change drastically in the next few days.
However parterners like hotforwords and sxephil are still allowed to use them. And they can even upload custom ones that are not in the video. So that means youtube stars will still put those up and get more powerful. Ironically they used all these methods and more near the start to get popular in the first place. Especially sxephil. Some of them even uses refresh view cheats to get popular. And now with tons of subs, they are there to stay. And hotforwords doese it ALL the time!! Of course her content happens to be her self which is a sexy girl, BUT she can maximize it putting extra provocative shots in swimwear and in YOGA poses. Look at the yoga video for an example. This has NOTHING to do with learning words and she’s clearly abusing the system. It’s not like she just sits there as a typical girl and talks. No, she puts tons of these poses in. I do happen to like her channel and like the poses, LOL.
But the point is she can abuse this and no one else can. That makes it unfair. They at youtube tell partners not to go crazy with thumbnails so they are somewhat careful, BUT they still are using it from time to time for sexy girls on their thumbs etc.