10 posts in 1 threads for "#thumbnails"
- Audience fatigue with jumpscare thumbnails: is the red arrow era ending?
Great discussion, everyone. Locking this one before someone makes a thumbnail of it with a red arrow pointing at the lock. Examples welcome in the Lounge.
- Audience fatigue with jumpscare thumbnails: is the red arrow era ending?
Welcome, Quinn. Extremely on brand for a first post.
- Audience fatigue with jumpscare thumbnails: is the red arrow era ending?
Lurker who finally made an account, and this is the thread that did it. Quiet thumbnails forever.
- Audience fatigue with jumpscare thumbnails: is the red arrow era ending?
Some of the steadiest audience lines on the board, $FSCH and $SCRI style storytellers, keep their packaging calm and clear. Could be coincidence, but it fits the thread.
- Audience fatigue with jumpscare thumbnails: is the red arrow era ending?
On a phone on the train, the screaming ones are just noise. The quiet ones are the only ones I actually notice.
- Audience fatigue with jumpscare thumbnails: is the red arrow era ending?
Fatigue is a real signal. It works on franchises and it works on faces with their mouths open.
- Audience fatigue with jumpscare thumbnails: is the red arrow era ending?
We do see 'clickbait' language rising in horror comment text over the last couple of months. We cannot tie it to thumbnails directly, since CRYPT does not analyse images, so treat the thumbnail link a…
- Audience fatigue with jumpscare thumbnails: is the red arrow era ending?
Timestamps or it did not happen, and in this case the timestamp is the horror.
- Audience fatigue with jumpscare thumbnails: is the red arrow era ending?
A thumbnail of an empty hallway at 3:14am scares me more than any screaming face.
- Audience fatigue with jumpscare thumbnails: is the red arrow era ending?
Trailer editor, so I think about the first frame a lot. On CRYPT I keep seeing 'clickbait' creep up in comments on horror uploads, and the ones people complain about in the threads are the screaming f…