Is the thumbnail AI?

yes it was, i cant pay an artist for every song i create, usually i pay them is for the album cover art.

Well, one option would be to get one piece and then just use that like I do. It builds recognition for your material, uses something that looks cool and that you can really customize the look of and means youa re using real art.
One thing I also used to do was to take pictures and use those. Just random flowers, cool graffiti, neat buildings, picture of you instruments etc.

There are a lot of options

to be honest i did that and even so get reported 4 designs i did by myself xd

I don't know what to tell you on that. I have never had one of my images reported for AI, but I never upload anything made with it for any reason. I think the closest i have come to anything like that was pulling pics of google images if i wanted something on a particular topic. I suppose that technically I should credit those.

My old icon previous this one was a picture of my strat that I had faded in seashore that let me post text over it. I used that for like 7 years or something. Prior to that it was a picture I took of a badge I got from the artist....rooboy? that had a little guitar magnet in front of it. That one also got used for like 7 years. Prior to that it was shitty little pics I took with my sony erricson.

I don't want to get on your case too much here. I like your stuff and appreciate that you follow me too. I think its way more respectable to avoid using AI altogether though. There are SOOOOOO many solid ethical reasons to avoid it, it looks kinda bland and generic and your music deserves better.