YouTube Thumbnail Design Feedback

I’m currently deciding whether or not I should use this thumbnail for an upcoming Roblox Studio YouTube video. I’m open to feedback and your opinions on what I can do to improve my thumbnail :slightly_smiling_face:

Background Information

The video I’m recording about is how AI is often hated or feared in the Roblox community. Mostly about how people assume AI will replace us, while in reality, AI can actually benefit us, making our sessions easier.

I didn’t come here to debate whether AI is a good or bad thing, and simply came to ask for suggestions or ideas to improve my thumbnail. :pray:

Additionally, more of my work can be found on my X account, where I’ll be using as a portfolio

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The sparkles could use some work, make it glow! As of now, it looks out of place.

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I never thought about making it glow. Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it! I’ll also try and change up the position of the sparkles effect as well

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Looks good, the only thing I could suggest is to add text onto your thumbnail. The text should be about your video and it should be something to grab the viewers attention.


Afew examples of this can be seen in a picture of my youtube recommended page


People are less likely to look at the full title of your video, so having text on the thumbnail will give people a better understanding of your video. The title text is small, the thumbnail is big which is why you want to display as much as you can to the viewer because chances are, its going to be the only thing they look at, especially when their quickly scrolling through trying to find a video to watch

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Oh wow, I never really thought about it like that! Thank you so much for this knowledge! I’ll be sure to add some text after what you said

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another thing, you can use https://www.testmythumbnails.com/ to have a real time test to see if your thumbnail stands out

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That’s very cool, thanks a lot! But it would have been a lot cooler if it could grade your thumbnails too