Be mean and critical on my thumbnails, do NOT hold back

[molten kite]

These are what I plan to A/B test as thumbnails, with the following titles as suggestions as well.

Thumbnail A Title: "I turned Youtube into a galaxy and explored it" (This is with the arrow pointing with ME)

Thumbnail B Title(s): "I found Youtube's weirdest niches" OR "The weirdest corners of Youtube, visualized". (This is the G*N ASMR text image)

Video Context: I scraped lots of popular creator channels' information from the youtube fandom website, turned it into an interactive 3d plot(that looks like a galaxy of stars), and categorized them. I found expected ones but also very interesting ones(roblox roleplay, Thomas the Tank Engine, 4 vtuber categories, etc) The site will be published for anyone to explore upon posting.

[wraith hollow]

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[molten kite]

Be mean and critical on my thumbnails, do NOT hold back

[normal pulsar]

Thumbnail A Title: "I turned Youtube into a galaxy and explored it". I would not click it. Generally I would say "maybe in your niche it makes sense..." but I have no idea in what niche that'd work because it's way too vague. If I see that and I see another video where I KNOW what I am going to get, I will click the other video.

The second title is more descriptive but that Thumb is also very confusing. They seem incongrount to me since I see the thumb and think "astronomy" which I like, and then I read the title and then I am like "nope."

The idea of the video is very unique, and I am not sure how many people are out there interested on that. Don't get me wrong, maybe it DOES work for others, but it doesn't work for me. I can't even begin to imagine how you can plot youtube niches...it seems odd. Like "I ranked cars based on their ackerman ratio plotted in a curb." I think the idea is that maybe you found clusters...I don't know. Usually I see "fandom" and I am expecting to be served morbid curioisty stuff, which works for me in that context.

Like there is a subreddit called "Cars F@cking Dragons"* and of course* "Dragons F@cking cars." Why? What do those people talk about? How many people ARE there interested in that? Do I even want to see what they are about? It triggers a big curisoity gap...but the promise of this video seems focus on the data and plotting and less on the exploring.

You correct me if I am missing the point though.

[molten kite]

This was a struggle I had with editing. 40% is me explaining how we got there, and the remaining time is me finding the weird categories of creators with proper editing. Cuts, attempts at comedic exploration, etc.

And that 40% was after I trimmed it down.

[normal pulsar]

That is way too long. You have 5-7 seconds to confirm the click to the viewer in what they are in for. It's na interesting idea but it has a hard connection to sell IMO.

[molten kite]

I appreciate that info. I did go through making a good hook for the first 15-20 seconds, but it does transition to the "how I got all the data" and eventually "let's find good stuff".

I'm either going to redo the hook, significantly shorten the video to "I got data" and immediately move to showing how the clustering of creators looks, OR redo the thumbnail based on what I have now and move to the next idea just because I have a lot more I want to iterate through

[molten kite]

That was also my thoughts on the word fandom, but turns out fandom is just the hosting name of the wiki site for people to add descriptive pages of every creator.

I found weird categories like Roblox roleplay, Geometry Wars and Demons, Slavic Life & Gaming, and others

[normal pulsar]

Yeah the thumb needs significant work. Constellations, specifically, have a very strong correlation to astronomy, and this is broadened by the design you gave them. Kind of like if you had someone chopping vegetables and pointing at the chef like "that's me", that would give a strong "oh this is about cooking" vibe. If you found really quirky or "depraved" ones, those would be the ones to highlight...Roblox roleplay sure...geometry wars and demons? That sounds almost normal. Now, Geometry Wars Erotica? That open curiosity.