I've been noticing an increasing amount of artists putting cropped thumbnails on their posts on various sites - some sites don't get it, other sites do. I don't really... understand the logic in it? I mean, it's a NSFW account, on a NSFW site, or otherwise filtered and separate from normal SFW content. Why put a cropped thumbnail on it?

I mean, I could understand if it was fetish content that's abnormal from your usual content, but that's what makes this trend even more confusing for me... It's not consistent! I'm seeing artists put cropped thumbnails on vanilla NSFW content, only to then later on post more vanilla NSFW content without a cropped thumbnail! I'm also seeing SFW posts with cropped thumbnails! Why!

I personally find cropped thumbnails annoying to sort through on my feeds. When I scroll through posts, there's a lot of stuff that my eyes gloss over. Stream announcements, YCH's, any post that doesn't interest me (like simple headshots or the like). My eyes might catch on one of those things if they happen to catch my interest but they tend to go ignored. So, naturally, if a post I would be interested in has a thumbnail cropped to the point it's just a headshot (which tends to be the case), I'm going to completely ignore it. Which is frustrating for me, because it's art I'd enjoy, that I'm not going to see.

So... Why the increasing amount of weird thumbnail usage???