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Does that mean we can't have cartoon pictures to put as the thumbnail since there are so many others that do that too?

That's question that you'll have to answer yourself. Honestly, if I were to use custom thumbnails I'd only use a cropped shot of the boxart, indicate it's an LP/speedrun/whatever, and the part number; kinda like how LPer Mr.DJB does his thumbnails:



In CosmykTheDolfyn's case, his thumbnail actually tells me nothing of what his video is about. (Not even the hard to read white text saying 'speedrun') All I got out from seeing it is that you want to draw attention to yourself rather to your mad gaming skills, and that you can't figure out that bright colors do not make white text any easier to read.