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By Max Boonch

On You Might Chortle

Released on March 8, 2023

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We need to understand the art of a YouTube thumbnail

Analyse them all and I bet that we will

Start to sell a lot more books if we

Changed the cover and replace it for a hook like:

A thousand blind people see for the first time

I spent fifty hours buried alive

Now that's the competition for Lord of the Flies, Moby Dick

Twilight, Catcher in the Rye

Every album ever could be a clickbait

Artist on the cover making this stupid face:

Breakup storytime

Plus I get my drivers licence

I define the sound of an entire generation challenge

I think it works also for movies:

Don’t Worry Darling

Becomes Harry Styles Sorry

In brackets

Apology Video

I don’t know about you but that probably would’ve made me go

Textbooks

Street signs

Attention span decline

Recipes

Hair styles

Dating app profiles

We could use it for the news

But I guess they already do