u/RawenV
Hi
Has this community actually helped anyone improve their thumbnails and raise their CTR? I’m just curious. I don’t mean this in a disrespectful way at all — I just want to know other people’s experiences and observations.
You don’t have to comment publicly; you can just DM me. I’d really appreciate hearing what actually worked for you, what changed your thumbnails, or what finally made your CTR improve.
Also, can anyone suggest any other good communities where I could get solid critique or help on how to make my thumbnails better?
u/RawenV — 3 days ago
[OC] - Konami Wanted Resident Evil. They Got Silent Hill - [08:18]
From Keiichiro Toyama’s early horror influences
to the technical struggles that nearly broke the game
to the creation of its iconic fog and unsettling sound design
u/RawenV — 3 days ago
Silent Hill Development Documentary
Silent Hill Development Documentary
Description:
A game development documentary about how the idea was formed, how the team was assembled, the production nightmares behind the project, and the origins of its atmosphere and music.
Help:
After trying so many different approaches, I have failed horribly. My CTR never went higher than 3%, which effectively killed my video. If anyone here has real knowledge and provable success with thumbnails, I need your help and mentorship.
Disclaimer:
I will post all the thumbnails that did not work in the comments to give you more context.
u/RawenV — 3 days ago
▲ 1 r/videoessay
Hey guys, I made a video essay on Silent Hill where I tried to do some more creative editing—3D parallax in After Effects and some Blender animations—but it ended up flopping pretty hard.
The comments were actually positive, but retention dropped off fast—over 65% of viewers left within the first 30 seconds.
I’d really appreciate feedback from anyone more experienced so I can understand what went wrong and build a better approach for my next video. I’m not trying to promote it—just genuinely looking for critique.
For context: it got 370 views over 11 days, 19 likes, and 7 comments. At first the metrics seemed okay, but once it reached a wider audience, they dropped hard. CTR was all over the place—started around 20%, then dropped to 1% and even 0.8%. I made some thumbnail/title changes that brought it back up to around 2%, and later 4–6%, but by then YouTube had already stopped pushing it.
u/RawenV — 10 days ago
Silent Hill: A First-Time Director's Horror Breakthrough Nobody Expected
It's a full story of development of the game from directors youth where ideas came to him to actual production insights and finishing with soundscape from Akira Yamaoka
I’ve been trying to figure out the thumbnail game, but I’m not going to lie—I suck at it. My CTR is around 1.5–2.5%, which is really poor performance. I need to replace the thumbnail on my main video, but I’m a bit lost.
Could you help me choose the best one? Or, if they’re all bad, could you give me some tips on how I can improve them before I replace the thumbnail?
u/RawenV — 15 days ago
Hi everyone, I started not too long ago and I’m getting into video essays about games. My goal is to take a slightly different approach by focusing on the people behind the games—exploring the development struggles and the stories that shape them.
u/RawenV — 9 days ago
▲ 9 r/SmallYTChannel
Hi to everyone so I just wanted to know your opinion on some things so i make or started is a better word making documentaries on games actually more about the people behind the game and the actual development about them and some say it's smart to share some works on reedit but i always considered sharing/promoting something like that a cardinal sin basically like signing a pact with the devil while getting the short end of the stick. So maybe there are someone here who had great success on essay-videos and could share some tips like every tip is actually nice from maybe even suggesting better archives then internet archives for some good gold footage to actually proper planning of video releases
u/RawenV — 16 days ago