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Hi, I'm Maria, I'm the graphic designer here, and I make the thumbnails for all our channels.

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Today I'm gonna show you some of the drawings that the writers usually send me

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before I start making the thumbnails, so that I have a better idea of what they want.

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We're gonna start with this one, which is pretty funny.

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This drawing was made by Adam.

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I remember perfectly. Actually, I think I have here the screenshot

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of his reaction, and he was like, I was too scared to draw his arms and hands.

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Basically, I don't know, I think we ended up not having this as a thumbnail.

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I don't remember, but I think it's pretty funny.

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I don't know how they managed to do all the details

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of the face and everything, and try to do everything to make the idea more clear to me.

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This one, I think, was James. So this was a thumbnail that we did,

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and maybe he was like, oh, can we add a hand to make it even better?

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I don't know, I have so much fun looking at these drawings

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every time, but I love when people try to do,

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because I'm an artist and graphic designer, illustrator as well, so I love when people

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also tries to make creative stuff. Even writers that usually,

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I mean, they are not used to make drawings.

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So I find it, I don't know, pretty interesting and funny. This one, I remember, and it's like a kind of recent video.

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So this was Jordan's guidance, like, okay, we're having Linus scared

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because the coke is falling into the PC. So he tried to, like, okay, we're having the PC,

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just like the view of the top of the PC,

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and this was the final result, pretty similar.

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Of course, like, we did a lot of multiple shots of the PC

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and just the coke, and then I Photoshopped all the, like, the coke falling into the PC.

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The face is pretty similar. I'm more focused about what, is that an eyebrow,

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or is that like an exclamation point for his eyes? I don't know, not that you mentioned,

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because, I mean, these are the eyes, but maybe he did these eyes first.

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You know, when you are a kid and you used to, like,

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draw the eyes as just, like, sticks.

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I don't know. I get that, but then what's the dot?

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I don't know. We can ask Jordan, I don't know.

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But good job, Jordan. The idea gets really clear when I have these kind of things.

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This is an example of how should you usually be,

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but for, I have here, an example of, like,

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very weird drawings.

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Riley was like, okay, make something like this.

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I'm like, okay. Maybe it made a little bit more of sense in the moment.

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He thumbs it up. Yes. Maybe it made sense in the moment,

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but sometimes I just scrunch at this because it's just like, okay, just a couple of squares,

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and like, I don't know, it's just interesting how they managed to, like, explain something.

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You know, it's really difficult sometimes to get into the mind of other people,

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or how they're imagining how to make things.

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Okay, here I have one of my address.

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This one was for this video about Google Chrome,

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comparison between, like, Google Chrome on ARC,

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and then Jonathan did this drawing for me,

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trying to explain it like, okay, we have, like, the tabs here and everything.

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We did, like, a really good job with this one, I feel.

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Like, we tried to, like, make the exact UI of ARC browser here,

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and, like, combine it with the Google Chrome tabs. I really like how it turned out.

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So sometimes, of course, there's people who, like,

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spend their time drawing the face, the eyes, the glasses,

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you know, like, and sometimes, I mean, I don't blame them because, of course,

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they're busy doing other things, but they just, like, draw circles like this,

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and they're like, okay, here's James, here's the garage door open,

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and here's the picture of a hacker, and then it's just, like, circles.

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Do you prefer this style, or do you prefer, like, someone actually drawing it?

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I mean, of course, I prefer, like, the real drawing.

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Of course, not perfect, but they are doing this just to have, like, a general,

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for me, to have a general idea. Of course, I prefer, like, more details,

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but it's not extremely necessary.

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I won't, like, ask everyone, like, please send me a bunch of artworks

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because I know everyone is busy doing other things.

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For example, I have other one here.

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This was Plov, or wish set up, yeah,

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like, the projector and everything they did at Linus's house.

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Yeah, this one. Yeah. Actually, for this one, I remember, I was like,

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I don't know, I see here, like, a camera and, like, people,

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but, like, I don't understand why, like, Linus over here,

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you know, like, just, like, his eyes,

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and I didn't know what that meant. So I...

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It looks like a bread? Or, like, a bed?

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I don't know, so I remember I asked him, like, he was like, okay, no, these are, like,

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the chairs and the projector, and then Linus's face here, and I was like,

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maybe it should be better if we have, like,

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Linus on one side, and then the projector and other stuff on the other side.

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Might be better, so it doesn't look really busy.

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So we ended up doing, like, kind of the general idea,

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and my suggestion was, like, okay, having just the full face of Linus on one side,

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other, the other stuff on the other side. What's a really, really recent one?

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For Techling? Oh, yeah, okay, yeah. So usually Riley's the one who sends me a lot of drawings,

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usually, because this is not, like, mandatory for everyone,

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it's just, like, when I feel like it's better for them

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to explain me in a better way, like, what is their concept going to be,

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I ask them, like, hey, can you draw something for me,

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for me to understand what you are thinking? But Riley usually does it, like, 99% of the time.

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For Techling, that game length, I remember I was laughing, like, by my own here,

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because I was like, what is this? Like, all of these lines, I was like, what?

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And then he came to the door, like, through the door,

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like, I don't know, two minutes after that, he was like, I'm sorry, I know this looks weird,

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but this is, like, the wallpaper of Windows 11, I guess,

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I think, and then this is the logo, and then half of the logo is, like, original colors,

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and I was like, oh, okay, now I understand,

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like, he was like, yes, sorry, I was, like, trying to, of course, make this,

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but, of course, he's not gonna do it exactly the same,

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but it's just, like, really funny. I remember he used to do, like, the whole face thing,

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for example, this one, it's also Riley's drawing here,

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and he made, like, the face with the glasses, and it was so cute, I remember, I was like, I love this,

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but then, of course, after doing the same thing over and over, he was like, okay, I'll just do a circle

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and name it James or Riley. I love how the nose says Riley, but it's the nose.

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This one was for a Samsung video, oh my god, it's so difficult to sometimes search

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for a tagline with thumbnails, because they have lots of colors and things,

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but, yeah, for a tagline, it's super useful,

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because as you can notice, we have, like,

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lots of layers, transparencies, and, like,

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sometimes Riley needs, like, a lot of assets

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to be on the thumbnail, as we have to, like, layer them in a certain way, those drawings

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help me a lot when trying to, like, make thumbnails for technique and game length.

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Okay, this is another Riley, and I also screenshot what he said.

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So this one was also a pretty recent thumbnail here.

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So, yeah, I love how they are like, okay,

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I am not going to make, like, Apple logos all over, I'm just doing circles, and all the explanation,

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like, not circles, Apple logos. This is not for a, I mean, it is for a thumbnail,

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but it's not, like, a whole drawing of how it's supposed to do, it's supposed to be.

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Of course, I don't remember which thumbnail was this, but I just laugh, because it's just, like,

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a line that does this, but I don't know how he's imagining in his head how it's gonna be flipped,

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but I know it's difficult to explain, like, how do you explain you wanted to rotate a element

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in a certain way, like, I mean, he did his best,

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so bonus points for that.

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And this was a thumbnail about, like, some cables.

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I'm more curious about this triangle mouth.

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That's right, that's a new one. That's a new, yeah, shape for a mouth.

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One of the first thumbnails I made, if I remember.

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Oh, this one. Yeah. Why is there two faces?

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I don't know. I don't know. I don't remember, and I don't know.

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Maybe that, like, he's happy and then he's sad.

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I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. As you can notice, thumbnails have changed

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since I've been working here. Like, before I started with a certain, like, style,

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kind of, like, replicating what we did, like, years and years ago, but then I started to, like,

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search for a different style, more, like,

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realistic backgrounds and more, like, modern, like, thinking about, like, other careers,

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what they are doing. So that's really important to, like, evolve

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and not just stay on what we did, like, years and years ago.

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Pretty happy with what we have been doing. I think ShortCircuit is the best example of ShortCircuit.

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Oh, yes, ShortCircuit. Today's been very, like,

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a couple of, like, months ago. I was talking to Jake Bell, who's like,

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you know what, I feel sometimes there's, like, a lot of colors and stuff and, like,

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I don't know, I wanted to make it more clean

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and, again, modern to, like, think about, like, what's everyone doing in 2024, 2023 at the time.

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Yeah, I'm trying to have, like, bigger shots of the products, cleaner backgrounds,

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still with the ShortCircuit colors. This one, I think it was Jordan as well

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for the Steam Deck video. Yeah, so he was like, okay, we wanna show

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the back of the Steam Deck. Oh, I love when it's tried, like, to fix things,

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because even though, like, it doesn't matter if the eyes are different or whatever,

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like, I won't care about that, but they, like, try to, like, okay,

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no, this didn't work, so they try to fix things.

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It's just so cute, I love it. Yeah, I think that's pretty much it.

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I mean, I have a couple more, but is there, from some, those that we didn't end up doing?

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Like, this one, I think it was, like... That looks like a Mac Address.

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That looks like a Mac Address, but it was actually, I think, an LTT.

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I think this is a Jordan drawing, if I remember correctly, but, okay,

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so I'm ready for your questions now. Like, which creators do you, like,

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watch a lot to, like, take their, like, see what they're doing with their thumbnails?

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So I actually follow some channels here for inspiration.

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Ryan Trehan, I really love his thumbnails.

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I mean, it's different content from ours, totally different, but I love the way

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he uses color. I don't know, it's really, like, sparing for me.

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This guy, it's more into, like, take videos like us,

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and I got inspiration for him for the ShortCircuit channel,

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because I used to see, like, things like this, like, floating elements,

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and, like, clean backgrounds and colors, and I thought, okay, maybe we can do something

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kind of similar for ShortCircuit, and I think it would work really well.

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Right now, all of our channels, I kind of, like,

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I'm trying to have them really clean and modern,

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but I wish they were even cleaner.

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I mean, I know, of course, we need, like,

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Linus' face and everything to be more recognizable, but...

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Classic. The classic.

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Also, like, use of color, arrows, things like that.

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I always search for, like, new inspirations.

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Also, Mr. Who's the Boss sometimes, I like to see what he's doing.

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I think the really successful video that we did for the mom-and-pop shop...

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Yeah, that one was really good, I liked that one. I think it was, like, a kind of a styling

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between Mr. Who's the Boss and, like,

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Mr. Beast kind of thing. He loves to, like, have, like, multiple products

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on the side and, like, his face around it, and I feel we did kind of, I mean,

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of course, we have our own style and our own way to do it,

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but, like, I got inspiration from there, and for this one, especially,

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the body of Linus is actually Mr. Beast's body.

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So Linus, for this one, was, like, because I had his body, like, his, of course,

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his original body, and he was, like, you know what? Just grab Jimmy's, I think he won't care.

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Put my face on it, like, I was, like, okay, sure.

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I love the colors, like, you can see a lot of things,

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but at the same time, it's not super busy. I don't know, I really like it.

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Which channel's your favorite to do the thumbnails for?

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Oh, so difficult!

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I feel like Mac Address is more your personal favorite, because it's more artistic compared to, like,

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everything else. Yes, totally. Like, and for Mac Address, the creator process

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is different from the other channels, because I have, like, the time to talk with Jonathan about it,

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and we sit down together, and we talk about, like,

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brainstorm about different ideas. Of course, with LTT, we have more videos coming out,

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and it's not that easy to, like, sit with the writer every single time,

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and, like, brainstorm. So the process is different.

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The writer brainstorms with Linus kind of thing, and then they send me also, like,

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the guidance for me to, like, give ideas if I have other ideas.

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So it's a little bit more different, but with Mac Address, yeah, I am, like, 100% involved from the start

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to finish up the thumbnails. Like, I shoot also the thumbnails

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for, like, the pictures for the thumbnails. I don't know why I don't like that Jonathan is really open

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to, like, new ideas. Like, when we did this one that is, like, the meme of,

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like, this is fine, the dog. Yeah, like, open to crazy things, and I love that.

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And I love when we have also, like,

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we make, like, recreation of art, or this one,

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like, I really love, like, art references. So then, I guess the hardest question is,

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which one is your favorite thumbnail of all time? Oh, my God.

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You probably make a thousand of them, but is there any that comes to mind that is, like,

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oh, this was, like, my favorite to make? Maybe because, like, it's, like, a cool story,

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or, like, maybe it just looks nice? Honestly, love, I'm looking at it,

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and I think that was, that is my favorite of all time, and is this one?

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So with Jonathan, we were, like, we need to make it happen.

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So we took the pictures and everything, and, yeah, at the moment, some people were, like,

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okay, maybe that would work, or maybe should we do another thing?

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But I was fighting for it. I'd never give up. I was, like, we need to release the video with this thumbnail.

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And then, after some time, we changed the thumbnail, because I remember we had a different thumbnail for YouTube.

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On Floatplane, we had this one. People on Floatplane and Reddit were, like,

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we love this idea, we love this thumbnail. I was, like, yes, please, we need to have it on YouTube.

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So we changed it back to this one on YouTube,

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and it did really well, I think. It was really cool, because it was the first time

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we did, like, something completely out of

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the normal process and everything. And, of course, Mac Address and, like, Apple products,

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and I, I mean, you see my whole setup is Apple, so.

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Okay, Floatplane, thanks for watching. Hope you liked this video, and let us know

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if you like this kind of content, this kind of videos.

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Yeah, see you on the next one. Bye!