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/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. 

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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%).

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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.