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サムネ詐欺

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Misleading thumbnail used to bait clicks.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"The video had nothing to do with its thumbnail, total clickbait fraud."

LORE & ORIGIN

Japanese YouTube-culture vocabulary (literally "thumbnail fraud") for a deliberately misleading video thumbnail designed to bait clicks.

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2026-09
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