What you're seeing here is the thumbnail for the video coming out in twelve hours from this post. Below it is a thumbnail I made for a video a few years back. I haven't been doing Youtube for very long, I'm certainly nothing special and a far cry from anything professional, but sometimes I enjoy going back and measuring the difference in my videos from back then to now. The best way is to just watch the entire video, but a quick way for you all is right here - the thumbnail, something I've recently discovered to potentially be the most important part about your video.
This is the thumbnail I made for the Glass And Lights video. It's terrible, it's atrocious, it would take a child to do it better than I did in a tenth of the time. It looks like I spent zero effort on it, and although that's true effort wise, I can promise you something like that took me half an hour at least. Compared to the thumbnail for the upcoming Vanilla Expanded Insectoids video, which took me just under an hour, it's a far cry. Everything in the video is lower quality. There's basically zero editing, lots of stammering, stuttering, a crappy mic and wind in the background. I barely even explain the mod entirely, I sort of just waffle on and on and on. But I still love it regardless.
Take time to appreciate how far you've come, and take some more to realise how far you still have left. There's no shame in anything you do as long as you're always working towards getting better, improving yourself, making things better for others.
And for the people who are still watching from back then, jeesh. Thanks for sticking around, my mother beat the idea of gratitude into me as a kid, and, well.. I love you all. Thank you again.
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What you're seeing here is the thumbnail for the video coming out in twelve hours from this post. Below it is a thumbnail I made for a video a few years back. I haven't been doing Youtube for very long, I'm certainly nothing special and a far cry from anything professional, but sometimes I enjoy going back and measuring the difference in my videos from back then to now. The best way is to just watch the entire video, but a quick way for you all is right here - the thumbnail, something I've recently discovered to potentially be the most important part about your video.
This is the thumbnail I made for the Glass And Lights video. It's terrible, it's atrocious, it would take a child to do it better than I did in a tenth of the time. It looks like I spent zero effort on it, and although that's true effort wise, I can promise you something like that took me half an hour at least. Compared to the thumbnail for the upcoming Vanilla Expanded Insectoids video, which took me just under an hour, it's a far cry. Everything in the video is lower quality. There's basically zero editing, lots of stammering, stuttering, a crappy mic and wind in the background. I barely even explain the mod entirely, I sort of just waffle on and on and on. But I still love it regardless.
Take time to appreciate how far you've come, and take some more to realise how far you still have left. There's no shame in anything you do as long as you're always working towards getting better, improving yourself, making things better for others.
And for the people who are still watching from back then, jeesh. Thanks for sticking around, my mother beat the idea of gratitude into me as a kid, and, well.. I love you all. Thank you again.
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