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Curiosity Gap
- Eight logos sit in a neat grid and you recognise almost none of them.
- That is the whole trick, because not knowing them proves the title's point before you click.
- Each unfamiliar icon becomes a small, separate gap that only the video can close.
Title
The title counts the list and bets you have not seen them.
Thumbnail
The thumbnail shows eight unfamiliar icons that prove you do not know them.
Use this when your list is full of things viewers have not seen. Show the icons plainly and let their unfamiliar shapes do all the pulling. If viewers already know most of them, this reads as old news.
Ask your own AI chat for titles and thumbnail ideas for your video, using the psychology behind this one.
Unfamiliar icons prove the promise before the click.
Turn this reference into your next thumbnail brief
Take what works here and give your designer a clear direction.
- 1 Start with your video idea
- 2 Define your title, promise and thumbnail
- 3 Share your finished brief with your designer