>>23921220this is a VERY rare/special case...
>it could be argued that the human (half-)face is the focus of the image>let's say the half-face appears to convey a certain expression>it's undeniably a face, and being used like a reaction imagei guess you're right
>LERP to 45, gore exception, or tenuous application of the "not a face" rule, even though it's literally and effectively a face?i think there should be a "shock exception" in general, for reasons which i think are more central to what i was trying to get at with this pattern, but which i'm too tired to have the words for right now...
i gotta think about this more, but i think it's actually practical & there are reasons behind it
there was a period after which all youtube thumbnails HAD to have a face, which i think is similar to TV/movie promotion previously
before this, thumbnails & their foci were a lot more random/unpredictable
(i think that early period was better, for reasons i can't explain properly right now)
this sorta coincided with youtube having much more advertising & marketing
i gotta think about all this more
i fucking hate psyop faggots, i guarantee there's tons of internal research & formalization of these things which people can only grasp at
