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0 pointsbenatkin1y ago0 comments

2013 was a big year on YouTube, it was the year after Gangnam Style came out - the first YouTube video to reach a billion views. When I see old videos on there I often see a high upvote count.

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johnnyanmac1y ago

Sure, but this is a channel that has 12k subs, in 2024. I can't imagine more than a few thousand subs in 2023.

And it's not a music video. 2013 was a big year but also when the algorithms went into overdrive on what you needed to do to drive engagement. The only thing this video didn't do "wrong" was be less than 5 minutes, which IIRC was the mini umum video length of that time to not be punished by the algorithm.

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0 pointsbenatkin1y ago0 comments

2013 was a big year on YouTube, it was the year after Gangnam Style came out - the first YouTube video to reach a billion views. When I see old videos on there I often see a high upvote count.

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johnnyanmac1y ago

Sure, but this is a channel that has 12k subs, in 2024. I can't imagine more than a few thousand subs in 2023.

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