does findthumb actually work, every time i see someone invoke it, it fails. - whats the story behind it ?
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If a video has a blank thumbnail (meaning there's no thumbnail image showing up at all), invoking *findthumb will attempt to regenerate the thumbnail on our static content servers. Whether or not it fails in this case, SiftBot's message will always say "another thumbnail could not be found."