Sharing answers to top q's we’re seeing about the thumbnail experiment: – Custom thumbs aren't going away – 99.7% still see the creator's custom thumbnail – A lot of creators use auto-generated thumbnails, this test helps improve them for those using them: https://goo.gl/A7oDmr
No, the worst part is that we did get informed. On the fucking Google forums. Nobody ever goes there, and YouTube probably knows this. Still, they don't tweet about it, nothing.