The Infinite Clickbait thumbnail loop
A thumbnail workflow that creates ten concepts, scores the top three against a relevant YouTube channel, and improves the winner without misleading viewers.
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Kickoff Prompt
Copy this prompt and run it with your agent to start the loop.
For [video], use [approved assets] to make ten thumbnail concepts. Score each at real YouTube sizes against [inspiration channel] for clarity, curiosity, emotional pull, contrast, and accuracy. Take the top three, improve each one's weakest dimension, and rescore them under the same rubric. Keep iterating the strongest concept until it clears [quality threshold] or [budget] ends. Reject anything the video cannot deliver. Return the winner, two runners-up, previews, final scores, and rationale.