Thumbnails being deleted?

[phoenix79]

Hello, I spent a couple of days downloading and reformatting thumbnails so I could upload them to this site. I have now seen that almost all of them have been deleted. Even images I uploaded a few minutes ago. Can you let me know what happened?

https://www.thetvdb.com/series/gaming-h ... s/official (I added 145 images and info for all, now no images)
https://www.thetvdb.com/series/my-life- ... s/official (I added approx 180 images and info for all, now no images)

There are more examples, but these two series are the ones who stand out as I put so much time into this.

[Imzadi]

Did you upload title cards? They are not allowed.

Edit: Looking at trakt.tv those are are title cards, that also include text. Definitely not allowed.
https://trakt.tv/shows/gaming-historian/seasons/2020
https://trakt.tv/shows/my-life-in-gaming/seasons/8

[phoenix79]

I had no idea that was not allowed. Well, that's a lot of work down the tube.

Do you happen to have a link to the policy around images?

[Imzadi]

It's a long standing site rule.

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=59152&p=182059&hili ... ic#p182059

[axminster]

I feel like this should be reconsidered for Youtube content. Makes no sense having the episode image here be different from the actual thumbnail the content maker chose for his video.

[phoenix79]

As you can guess I am in agreement as YouTube creators spend a lot of time and money to create these for their audiences. Though I really don't like the idea of re-sizing and re-uploading hundreds of thumbnails again.

[Imzadi]

Youtube and title cards have been around for a long time. We are not changing our rules.

[ChristyEzzell]

Imzadi is right. This is a long-standing rule and while we understand that this may be the image the content creators prefer, it needs to be a screenshot of the show that is text-less. This corresponds to not just YouTube, but all our content.

[phoenix79]

A pity, but it does have the upside that it will save me a lot of time resizing all those images