I heard a streamer talk about it once, and apparently YouTube essentially makes you use the silly thumbnail images otherwise your video gets buried.
It gives you “suggestions” on how to improve your videos, and if you’re trying to make a living doing it you have to follow the suggestions like they’re mandates.
I think it started as some thing about the number of videos aimed at kids poisoning the algorithm with their thumbnail format and then it created a feed forward loop in a gross ouroboros of telling people they needed to do the thumbnail and the people doing it which in turn gets them views by preventing their video from being buried so it thinks the thing is clearly working and keeps telling people to do it.
And now here we are in the year of our lord 2024, and it’s still going and we as adults just have to live with instructional videos having terrible thumbnails. I hate this.
(all I wanted was a short explanation on the best way to install an LED light strip but I’ve mainly learned how many white guys have photographed themselves being very emotional about something)
It's tricky because I have an AMS (that I adore), but if I want my 5th spool to live somewhere on the machine (instead of this shameful setup), it limits the options for how I can do that with the space I have available.
@hotdogsladies The second thing I printed (after the poop chute) was a external spool holder so I could have it on the side. I need an AMS though; running out of filament mid-print is the bane of my existence.
With that said, I’m currently very smitten with Bambu’s TPU, but I think even they discourage running it through the AMS. It’s basically like a thin rubber band on a spool. Crazy low rigidity by design.
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