Help This YouTuber Paint His Video Thumbnail Using Nothing but Comments

When it comes to the rules of the internet , you may always reckon on two things to be truthful : crowdsourced projects will fly off the rail , and YouTube commenters are the worst . Despite these foundational principle , YouTuber Sean Hodgins has bewilder caution to the wind and hacked together a slight experiment that earmark the great unwashed like you to determine the look of the thumbnail on one of his clips .

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Inhis latest video , Hodgins explains that his dissatisfaction with the ovolo nail on his last clip inspired him to open up up the pick to viewers . to do that , he ’s integrated a Python handwriting with the YouTube API that allows users to paint on a digital canvas pixel - by - pel . He also made a cartoonishly over the top panic push that he can slap at any time if he needs to stop the posting because something ’s inappropriate or misfunction .

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All you require to know to start contribute pixels to the thumbnail is the pattern ( x , y , r , g , b ) . ex and y represent your x- and y - axis on the canvas . The top left is ( 0,0 ) and the bottom right is ( 838,563 ) . R is red , g is green , b is blue , and determine the intermixture of each value creates the color of your pixel . you may go through the worry of manually figure all that out or you may just useHodgins ’s handy tile - God Almighty toolthat leave you to draw more naturally . After you ’ve draw your pixels in the tool , copy the computer code , and bemuse it in a comment .

Below you’re able to what the progress on the thumbnail looks like at the clip of writing . Do your thing , internet .

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