Thursday, October 4, 2012

Unusual YouTube phenomenon spotted!

Take a look at this playlist, if you will. Pay special attention to the view counts. Spot anything weird?

Yeah, I have no idea how that happened either. One video in a series gets over four million views, yet aside from the finale the rest is in four-digit land. That means less than one in a thousand people who watched that one video then watched the rest of the series. Talk about poor retention! Of course, a hint may be in the like/dislike bar for that one with the four million views. I mean, when I ended up in Chugga's related videos all of my work's viewership skyrocketed, not just one video.

Branching out to the rest of his channel, sort all his videos by popularity. One video with 14 million views (and quite unpopular to boot), eight more over a million, and countless others in the six digits. And yet he barely has more subscribers than I do. My highest video has 160000 views, and I only have two others above 100000. How does THAT happen?

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  1. I guess that video is the top hit when people search the last castle of that game?

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    1. ^
      He has a point. Especially when you know that 3DS Capture Cards are so rare, so there's much less "competition" (too lazy to find a better word...) for all those views.

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    2. You can record on 3DS!? Can you do that whit ds too? I though those guys just was very skilled at using a camera...

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    3. As far as the 3DS goes, it's possible, but like I said, it requires a very specific capture card which is made in very little quantities. It's also quite expensive and currently incompatible with the 3DS XL, sadly.

      I didn't get any info about the DS tough, mostly because I never had one, but I guess it's possible too.

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    4. TSG has such capture equipment for the DS, so it definitely exists. It's just as rare, though, from what I've heard.

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  2. Now that is one serious positive feedback loop that youtube has going! Guess several people got curious about that level, and that episode may have gotten featured. Guess it got promoted to oblivion, so more and more people watched it (I recognize it from the suggested videos list). But yeah... poor retention. Might have to watch it just to see why everyone else seems to watch it! :P

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  3. Yeeeeah, more people need to watch you (unless they do not know Logic). The Big Three (TheRunawayGuys) I can sort of understand though I kind of like you a little more. Clement and the BrainScratchComms group have basically your amount of subs, and I like them a lot. I like Batman9502, but I do not knoe his sub count. However, what I do not understand is people like GianCarlo, this guy, and others (coughthatModernWarfaregroup) that are talentless hacks yet have more subscribers than you. I know you do not care about subscribers and think you are not very good, but I am afraid you are wrong on that point. You are probably my favorite LPer, though I am not sure. It is like trying to decide whether I like Mega Man or Sonic games (the good ones. Yes, I am afraid Legends would count for me) more as my second favorite series of all time. I just cannot decide. Either way, you do need to get more well-known (without partnerships) so it will not seem quite as bad (still will be bad) when some talentless hack decides to work

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    1. Oh, it gets worse. Far worse. PewDiePie is the worst LPer I've ever had the displeasure of seeing, and look at his sub count, he makes Chugga look like a complete nobody, and his fanbase makes the Chugga zombies look timid in comparison (hence why even Slowbeef and Diabeetus are afraid to say a word about the guy, it'll end in death threats, if not death period). Try to find another LPer with more subs than PewDiePie. I dare you.

      I mean, for all the hate Chugga gets because of his fanbase he's actually quite good at what he does. This guy, though, has no redeeming feature whatsoever.

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    2. Funny, for how popular that guy is, I only just now heard of him. (Watching LPs is a huge thing for me, too!) He seems awful. He must have a bad reputation despite the sub count, or else I definitely should have heard of him by now.

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    3. Oh, he does have a bad rep for anyone with taste, which is why I mentioned Slowbeef and Diabeetus, who keep getting asked to do something PewDiePie-related over and over.

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  4. It's simple, at least for Let's Players and such. People just want to see a certain part of a game. The beginning or end of a game is going to get more views than any other part simply because more people want to see those parts of the games more so than everything in the middle. Other interesting/amazing parts of games (such as that video where that guy beats Cynthia with level ones) are going to get considerably more views than any other because it's more interesting than say "Let's Play Pokemon Emerald Part 56." Not watching that guy's other uploads is a matter of the uploader not really getting the person's attention enough to watch their other stuff. Or people just have short attention spans and are video skimming via related videos. "Cythnia...Level Ones"? Cool! That was a good video! Oh, hey, something else interesting! Moving on!

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    1. That's true, but usually these variations aren't of the order of A THOUSAND TO ONE.

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  5. speaking of youtube screw ups, they now show your channel picture next to your comment. who wants to see something like that.

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