PBS uploaded the video of Kirk's wife eulogy and the thumbnail was her smiling and people, including myself chocked this up to PBS being propogandist scumbags.
I did an experiment and downloaded their video and uploaded it, and these were the AI auto generated picks.
The thing about auto youtube thumbnails is they almost always pick happy faces over sad faces because in general people will click a happy attractive face over a sad face.
As someone who's uploaded videos to Youtube, youtube's auto thumbnails almost always go for moments where smiling happens because it's "good for the algorithim"
Those were the only 3 choices I was given without having to create a custom thumbnail.
Since PBS news uploads like 10 videos a day, and their videos are just news, they go with whatever the auto thumbnail is over custom thumbnails. The majority of their videos are just screenshots from the video itself. On their channel they rarely use a custom thumbnail.
I would also like to note that Erika has no experience speaking from what it looks like. It's a very difficult speech for a widow to make, while going through an emotional roller-coaster, while trying to convey different messages at different times. Sometimes she almost came across as performative, but I think it was mostly just that she was stiff... from being stressed... about being a widow, and the new major speaker of the organization.
I think it was a bit too difficult of a speech to give her, so it's a little weird.
PBS uploaded the video of Kirk's wife eulogy and the thumbnail was her smiling and people, including myself chocked this up to PBS being propogandist scumbags.
I did an experiment and downloaded their video and uploaded it, and these were the AI auto generated picks.
The thing about auto youtube thumbnails is they almost always pick happy faces over sad faces because in general people will click a happy attractive face over a sad face.
As someone who's uploaded videos to Youtube, youtube's auto thumbnails almost always go for moments where smiling happens because it's "good for the algorithim"
Those were the only 3 choices I was given without having to create a custom thumbnail.
Since PBS news uploads like 10 videos a day, and their videos are just news, they go with whatever the auto thumbnail is over custom thumbnails. The majority of their videos are just screenshots from the video itself. On their channel they rarely use a custom thumbnail.
I would also like to note that Erika has no experience speaking from what it looks like. It's a very difficult speech for a widow to make, while going through an emotional roller-coaster, while trying to convey different messages at different times. Sometimes she almost came across as performative, but I think it was mostly just that she was stiff... from being stressed... about being a widow, and the new major speaker of the organization.
I think it was a bit too difficult of a speech to give her, so it's a little weird.
It also felt like she was forcing herself to smile so as to not break down.
Yeah, that's kind of what I mean.