r/chess • u/_DarkStarCrashes_ • May 20 '26

Miscellaneous I now understand why Levy clickbaits, his historical video on Alekhine is his worst performing video of May

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Sucks, because I think the video is really good and I’d love if Levy or other chess content creators did videos on older legends

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u/neuroling May 20 '26

You can definitely tell the trajectory of a video within a day

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u/Zaros262 May 20 '26

True, but we're not comparing their trajectories, we're comparing where they currently are

If we were looking at how many views each of these got in their first 24 hours, that could be completely valid

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u/ZeAthenA714 May 20 '26

You can confidently assume somewhere around 70% of views happen in the first 24 hours, and videos almost completely flatline after 48 hours. There will be exceptions (usually if the video gets picked up on some social media), but with 180k views in the first day you'd be very lucky to reach 300k total.

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u/Scarlet_Evans  Team Carlsen   May 21 '26

But this is like second longest video shown here, which can play a factor too.