Nvidia has an interesting reputation on Linux, for the most part pretty negative but that might start becoming a little bit better and the work of Ben Skeggs...
    • Quintus@lemmy.ml
      23·
      1 year ago

      Seriously. Why the hell is the guy’s face in there anyway? I would understand if it was Nvidia’s logo that was large as hell. I imagine it might be to tell his followers “it’s me” but whatever.

      • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
        35·
        1 year ago

        Unfortunately it has been proven that putting a stupid human face into the thumbnail makes your audience much bigger. It would be nice if YouTube had a “show stupid face” option.

        • qaz@lemmy.worldOP
          25·
          1 year ago

          The reverse exists, there is the DeArrow extension which removes thumbnails like this and replaces it with a crowdsourced frame of the video.

          • electro1@infosec.pub
            5·
            1 year ago

            I like that this exists but I don’t want to use it because i want to know the content creatos to avoid, thumbnails are part of the game, but putting your face on them feels like a cheap trick ( since it’s unecessary ), effective… yes… but cheap…

        • MonkderDritte@feddit.de
          8·
          1 year ago

          Weird, a grimace in the thumbnail usually drives me away, because it implies overstipulated trivia for teens to me.

      • cheezits@lemmy.ca
        12·
        1 year ago

        Because its proven to generate more views, why do people criticize the guy for trying to make a living? Literally every other big youtuber does this… Its effective. I do not understand why people hate someone for complying to an industry norm. Do you also hate real estate agents for putting their smiling face on billboards? Lol.