This is a newer thing for him. Hopefully an experiment that he will let fail. Dave’s content is … fine. Not really for me. He generally knows what he’s talking about. But yeah the “AI” look is just offputting. Actually detracting from anything of substance.

I have no problems with that particular thumbnail

understood. I can upload something generic in place of, but that kinda modifies the author’s presentation. :-(

other than that, I don’t have a good solution to the ai graphic slop - even for mildly interesting pass-time content.

edit: interestingly, jerboa never shows youtube thumbnails and my workflow through newpipe doesn’t either - so I have zero idea what these thumbnails look like.