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| YouTube Face is clickbait, attaining human form (openspace.sfmoma.org) | ||
| recommended by 2 users | 2018 | 382 points by dwighttk | video & streaming | original thread | | ||
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You might find this interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16803937 freetube client allows you to control how thumbnails are displayed; default - youtube one or manual fetch frame from beginning, mid or end of the video |
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| recommended by 2 users | 2016 | 431 points by kawera | original thread | | ||
> Similar things happen to the thumbnails, which start containing more and more exaggerated, sometimes creepily-so, faces, reacting to absurd images that last for a fraction of a second in the video.
There was a nice little examination of this phenomenon, dubbed YouTube Face, a couple of years ago.
Article: https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2018/04/your-pretty-face-is-goi...
HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16803937