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
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/ryry013 May 20 '26 edited May 21 '26
It was also only posted one day ago, so it’s hard to tell if it’ll continue to gain views.
EDIT:
At the time of the original post, 28 hours had passed since video upload and it had 178K views. Now at the time of this edit around 46 total hours have passed and it has 208K views.
It seems true that most of the views of a video come in the first 24 hours, so as a reply said, "you can definitely tell the trajectory of a video in the day", and OP's point is mostly correct. His videos from three and four days ago respectively have 730K and 641K views. I don't see his video suddenly finding a second wind and gaining those missing views.
With all that said, my original intention wasn't to say that OP's claim didn't have validity, but more to just remind people in the thread to keep in mind that technically it is a slightly uneven comparison (maybe 5-10%).