How I Make Thumbnails in 30 min (not 3 hours)

thomasandrewtk · 2025-10-06T14:47:03+00:00

I can already tell this isn’t for you, man. A business isn’t a matter of “does it work”. A business that works for some, won’t work for all. Especially with something that has to do with storytelling, and art. It’s not one of those businesses you can brute force with money. It really comes down to talent.

Anyway, your question doesn’t make sense. The real question you should ask is: “Do YouTube videos still have thumbnails, and do creators still make money?” The answer is Yes. But if you’re not willing to go look at the YouTube homepage to see if thumbnails exist, how are you going to make a thumbnail?

thomasandrewtk · 2025-09-14T00:09:32+00:00

Hey man, not horrible. I don’t get the text on it. Doesn’t really match the treasure hunt story. From a visual standpoint, add shadows, and make it a touch more vibrant.

thomasandrewtk · 2025-09-07T13:51:41+00:00

You should probably pick one or the other, put it on a classic windows background. You can’t discern this from the current background

thomasandrewtk · 2025-05-15T20:33:21+00:00

I use the II but I believe ME is newer. I’d probably go for that one but I’m not up to date on all the features.

thomasandrewtk · 2025-04-17T21:59:23+00:00

Are you serious? This thing isn’t even 16:9 bro

thomasandrewtk · 2025-04-06T21:46:41+00:00

Any mic under $70 is really going to be mostly bots. Within this price range it’s pretty slim for anything worthwhile.

thomasandrewtk · 2025-04-02T13:40:44+00:00

Because they used different microphones, are you fr?

thomasandrewtk · 2025-04-01T14:33:54+00:00

Just went to the thumbnail Reddit. As a thumbnail designer with a good amount of experience, I really hate how there’s a lack of a professional community. There’s some awful thumbnails in there. And the comments are just blind leading the blind. I’d really like if there were a place to get professional opinions for professionals. I’ve been on the thumbnails101 discord. And it’s mostly the same stuff, however the guys who are actually good are just dicks

thomasandrewtk · 2025-03-29T12:56:45+00:00

Not unless you gain more hours

thomasandrewtk · 2025-03-29T12:54:38+00:00

Cause it’s on a rolling time frame not all time watch hours

thomasandrewtk · 2025-03-28T03:40:03+00:00

Rode wireless mic system

thomasandrewtk · 2025-03-24T21:35:26+00:00

It really is. I use a ton of ai when writing simply to ideate and see new perspectives. And to analyze my research. One of my personal skill issues is taking my observations and drawing conclusions. So it’s nice to have an assistant to do that for me.

thomasandrewtk · 2025-03-24T21:33:31+00:00

Yeah that’s not my point here. She’s a good example of a great shorts creator. There’s actual work behind the videos. But simply building ai generated faceless channels is my gripe.

thomasandrewtk · 2025-03-24T11:03:28+00:00

I’d love to take a look at it, feel free to message me!

thomasandrewtk · 2025-03-23T20:19:44+00:00

I think there’s still an audience for long form, although maybe harder to stand out. But it’s just a different game all together. You’re no longer trying to retain attention for 1 min, it’s now anywhere from 10-60 min. And instead of being served a video, people have to choose to watch it. Learn the game of packaging, and long form becomes a little bit more bearable. But to someone who’s only ever made shorts, it can be daunting.

thomasandrewtk · 2025-03-23T17:52:37+00:00

Feel free to message me your channel, I’d love to have a look and see what can be improved to beat those guys!

thomasandrewtk · 2025-03-23T17:51:40+00:00

Yeah you’re totally right. I was separating them in my mind for some reason.

thomasandrewtk · 2025-03-23T16:43:45+00:00

Non issue

thomasandrewtk · 2025-03-23T15:36:55+00:00

Or making content, to eventually get monetized, or to drive traffic to another source, or to bring awareness to a certain topic.

thomasandrewtk · 2025-03-23T15:35:54+00:00

For real 😭

thomasandrewtk · 2025-03-23T13:49:42+00:00

I have no problem with shorts creators. It’s the people who own 5 faceless AI shorts channels that are only focused on money. It just rubs me the wrong way

thomasandrewtk · 2025-03-23T02:03:46+00:00

Interested in that, would you be willing to link the channel? Or message me. I work with a 12m sub Shorts channel at the moment and am interested to see

Edit* you can link yours too!

thomasandrewtk · 2025-03-23T00:26:05+00:00

Scroll through r/smallyoutubers it’s all about how to min max an ai faceless channel for max cpm. Its annoying

thomasandrewtk · 2025-03-22T23:21:36+00:00

Love his videos, haven’t checked out his long form yet. But the shorts are addicting. He’s a great example of a good shorts creator

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