solid color thumbnail

An image whose thumbnail is simply a solid color rectangle.

This can happen in a few situations:

• An animated image or video whose first frame is solid black or white, which causes the thumbnail to be solid black or white too.
• An image with a transparent background that was intended to be viewed over a black background, but the transparency was converted to white for the thumbnail.
• A thumbnail surprise (a two-frame non-looping animation where the first frame is intentionally blank).

See also

• blank page
• missing thumbnail
• bad thumbnail

The following tags are aliased to this tag: solid_black_thumbnail and solid_white_thumbnail (learn more).