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In fact, he tried that earlier this year - but faced a backlash from other creators when he released an AI tool which generated thumbnails for videos.

There's also a historian who tracked his thumbnail growth for 35 years, and physics researchers exploring the mysteries of pasta sauce.

The literature prize was posthumously given to William Bean, a medical historian who tracked the rate of growth of one of his thumbnails over 35 years and published a number of studies on the subject.

"The spiderlings are about the size of a grain of sugar, and the adults are about the size of your thumbnail. So it's a very small world that you're in."

The creator economy also has more specialized roles, such as thumbnail designers — people who create the images used to tease videos on sites including YouTube.