With the new changes to grow small creators on instagram the thumbnail can be helpful in the discovery feed, but I'm not sure how much to invest in it yet. On youtube the thumbnail shows up in the main screen so it probably is of some help too. I'm curious about your strategy: -AI costs money to run, how do you monetize? -How do you want the audience to engage? -Is this about business or making AI art? My takes about ai art: -Most people have a negative baseline desire about looking at AI art (no data, just my exp) -Hard to monetize because people don't perceive value. -Ai art accounts tend to be all over the place with what they are trying to do and the art style itself. -Some themes are just repetitions like the "XX country as a YY". They also work as a gamble, you can go viral or waste the credits. Even so it doesn't generate that many followers, you have to go viral many times to get results. EXCEPT Ai influencers... because they: 1. Have a consistent feed and character 2. Assign a human personality people can relate or desire 3. Provide horny value 4. Can be monetized easily with 18+ content or brand deals If you want to focus on ART generation, in your shoes I would focus more on: 1. Testing themes and formats to find what is trending and what you like to do. 2. Make accounts with different art styles. Just like human artists people tend to gravitate to something recognizable and unique, for that you need consistency in your body of work. (keep one acc to test styles before committing) 3. Try pen names and alter egos! Match personality to the art and you will see much higher engagement (and maybe sell some merch in the future).

@Laszlo Horvath don't kill the fun out of it too soon either! I spoke presuming you intended to make this a business, maybe that is not the case or stage yet.

I'll be blunt but don't take it harshly please: 1- Too fast for the song 2- Sun rewinding was weird for me 3- Movements don't match so it becomes "choppy" 4- Only wide shots in quick cuts makes it hard to take it all in. Either give the viewer something to focus on or time to see find it. 5- Morning, day, night, space, universe cycle was a cool concept but too many shots makes it hard to grasp if its too fast.

@Rob Ruscher is the master here

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Oook great, now we have god tier automation and video making guys around... To make myself feel a bit more useful I'll use the grown up argument that at least my flowie hair is better than you guys's 😜 Jokes aside, this partnership is golden! Thank you for making such amazingly valuable content for us @Stephen G. Pope and getting another legend like @Rob Ruscher to give us a hand. I have been active here since the conversations are more interesting than in other communities lately. I teach entrepreneurship, critical thinking for young adults(16-20) and lately been starting with AI basics/literacy for professionals. Also, I have ran a few editions of an AI writing hackathon in my home country, if you are interested just let me know and we can get something going here.