Did a little playing around with TubeBuddy YouTube AI Thumbnail Analyzer, a feature I've never used before. I won't claim to be a YouTube Thumbnail artist or perfectionist but seems odd to me how in both these cases, the Analyzer is showing more effectiveness with standard screenshots that the custom made thumbnails I made. I'm trying it out with the second video (the sky/surface map one) seeing if I see any difference in views, click-through etc but seems odd to me that a plain, simple screenshot would perform better. What do you guys think?

And yeah I'm not super happy with the custom Surface Map thumbnail, spent a bunch of time trying to come up with something, tried a few things & that was my best at the time. It's a bit "busy" & "cluttered" maybe.