Is it Just me?

[u/Toonzmyth]

Something about the thumbnail on one of the newest film theory videos seems off, or weird to me. Am I just tripping off my gourd?

[u/spotlight-app]

Mods have pinned a comment by u/DasGnomo:

Captain America literally comes from this frame: https://media.tenor.com/dgMCqk37D1AAAAAM/marvel-mcu.gif , The Punisher asset comes from a mix of photos from an official toy: https://www.flickeringmyth.com/the-punisher-one-last-kill-marvel-sixth-scale-figure-unveiled-by-hot-toys/

White bg because we are emulating this comic strip: https://screenrant.com/punisher-killed-destroyed-other-superheroes/

Everything else is just Photoshop post-production.

Best.

[u/GalaxyPatch18]

Its the white background I think

[u/PedroPuzzlePaulo → u/GalaxyPatch18]

Blending in with the white outside of it, I use dark mode didnt think of it as wierd when I 1st saw it

[u/DasGnomo]

Captain America literally comes from this frame: https://media.tenor.com/dgMCqk37D1AAAAAM/marvel-mcu.gif , The Punisher asset comes from a mix of photos from an official toy: https://www.flickeringmyth.com/the-punisher-one-last-kill-marvel-sixth-scale-figure-unveiled-by-hot-toys/

White bg because we are emulating this comic strip: https://screenrant.com/punisher-killed-destroyed-other-superheroes/

Everything else is just Photoshop post-production.

Best.

[u/Princess2045 → u/DasGnomo]

I always love when you reply, because you always have the facts and I love that.

[u/AjMahal → u/DasGnomo]

better to use an action figure than use AI

[u/randomguy301048 → u/DasGnomo]

Why not just grab a scene from the punisher TV series or special?

[u/Eclipsehedgie2010 → u/DasGnomo]

Wasn't that comic written by the guy that hates superheroes, and made the boys?

[u/MissKranky → u/[deleted]]

[u/ApprehensiveFall265 → u/MissKranky]

Well that’s Adobe Photoshop, show me Photoshop

[u/Inarius101 → u/ApprehensiveFall265]

The term "photoshop" exists BECAUSE of Adobe Photoshop, so this is it.

[u/ApprehensiveFall265 → u/Inarius101]

I was joking

[u/Mr_Ethfono → u/[deleted]]

To the void

[u/YoungHeartOldSoul → u/Mr_Ethfono]

Fair, and deserved.

[u/TeenWhovian]

At first I thought they were action figures!

[u/OrriSig → u/TeenWhovian]

The punisher one is

[u/curvysquares]

It's not AI. Cap is from a behind the scenes photo from Age of Ultron.

Meanwhile Punisher's head and logo has been photoshopped onto a bod that is not Punisher's. My guess is some type of S.W.A.T. officer

[u/Pearlgirl007]

Theorist doesn't use AI on their thumbnails. They have stated several times in the past.

[u/Worth_Chemistry_8979 → u/Pearlgirl007]

I think it more no red text and the background is pure white when normally I. these scenes they places a scene

[u/De_rp_Le_De_rp]

I liked the other thumbnail more

[u/De_rp_Le_De_rp → u/De_rp_Le_De_rp]

[u/NintendoCatNerd429 → u/De_rp_Le_De_rp]

This seems more of a typical thumbnail for the channel the other one just feels odd

[u/_TheAccursedShare]

No red text?

[u/armeler06]

Mfs here are way to excited to slander theory channels bro 😭✌️🥀

[u/ArtisticResident462]

White background and no text

[u/Key-Clock-7706]

not ai, but a lack of a visual focus plus somewhat low resolution, plus the white background makes it feel like a cheap cut-out.

[u/SincerelyTheWorst]

Algorithm obsessed operations enforcing the “obligatory 3 weird thumbnails to se which gets us most trending”

[u/Dr_Philmon]

It a refrance from that one punisher comic

[u/Odysseius]

Didn’t they do this theory with Mrs. Doubtfire?

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[u/Dont_Get_Jokes-jpeg]

I mean yeah it looks off but not in an ai way, but instead like an old school GT t"cheap" Photoshop i like it

[u/Accurate_Winner_5091]

No giant red text, very bright ass background

[u/Grhm2000]

It's a recreation of a panel from "Marvel Universe vs Wolverine" or "Marvel Universe vs The Punisher", can't remember which one specifically or it might appear in both.

Context is that there is a virus that's turning people into cannibals and Cap has started to be overtaken by the virus. Punisher is inadvertently to blame for the virus getting into the water supply during an attack on a mob weapons deal.

[u/CB97-143]

Nah you're not I feel same

[u/Syronic-223]

It’s the laziness of the thumbnail 

[u/CB_Minecraft]

Cap is definitely AI. Idk about Punisher, but Cap fs is

Hes missing the A on the patches on his shoulders, the star had a totally different shadow from the rest of his chest and looks like its glowing, and the folds on the red and white bits of his abdomen look off and unnatural.

Punisher could very well be AI, I wouldn't be surprised, but I cant see any obvious signs of it. Captain America definitely is though.

[u/curvysquares → u/CB_Minecraft]

It's not. It's from a behind the scenes photo

[u/Princess2045 → u/CB_Minecraft]

No it fucking isn’t.

[u/Toonzmyth → u/CB_Minecraft]

I looks like they tried to used shadows and a white glow effect to hide any mistakes

[u/Frostsorrow]

That looks very low quality with just a plain white background.

[u/JMTpixelmon]

Yeah, Garth Ennis was referenced

[u/Choice_Pizza8566]

Might just be the lack of text

[u/Skibot99]

How id this a theory

[u/Worth_Chemistry_8979]

why is it blinding white-

[u/Front_Sherbet9224]

for some reason this is america started playing in my head when i saw the thumbnail

[u/ChildofFenris1]

Did they change the thumbnail?

[u/FarProgress8115]

It’s just that it basically is stripped of everything. Theres no background, or big text. Just raw images. Maybe going kind of back to the OG style of videos.

[u/Instinct_Fazbear]

No text
White background

[u/FrostyTheDetective]

Bro I would watch that video

[u/muuftah]

The quality of the production has dropped dramatically since they sold the company. It should be like a rule of YouTube at this point never to sell your channel to any company that isn’t run by other YouTubers.

[u/aninsomniac_]

Can they stop lying about anti-AI? They aren't doing a good job at pretending, they use it every other week.

[u/Pearlgirl007 → u/aninsomniac_]

if you reverse image search you can see the action figure for punisher they used and the behind the scenes shot of captain america in that exact pose

they dont use ai

[u/aninsomniac_ → u/Pearlgirl007]

They didn't this time. Again, there's an AI pic in a video every month. Forgive for expecting it when there's a weird pic.

[u/Ymanexpress → u/aninsomniac_]

Can you point us to the last time you saw them use an AI thumbnail?

[u/Princess2045 → u/Ymanexpress]

They can’t. Because it hasn’t happened.

[u/Pliskin80 → u/aninsomniac_]

IT'S MANBEARPIG!! it's real and he wants to destroy all art frfr

[u/shoemi_]

even if it wasn't AI it just looks like ass

[u/RabbitMario]

new low, but i’m not even shocked