The first real breakout.
One video hit 103 views on pure algorithmic placement — more than the rest of the channel combined.
| Video | Views (as of log) |
|---|---|
| Why Crowded Places Make You Want to Leave (Sep 2) | 103 |
| Why You Can't Admit You're Wrong (Sep 4) | Just posted |
"Why Crowded Places Make You Want to Leave" hit 103 views — more than every other video on the channel combined, long-form and Shorts together. For the first time since launch, long-form actually outpaced Shorts on the channel's 28-day totals (122 views to 68), but that's really just this one video doing the work, not a broader shift.
100% of its views came from YouTube recommendations — 94.2% from the Home feed, 5.8% from Up Next. Nobody searched for it, nobody was sent an external link. YouTube's algorithm found it and pushed it, the same way "That Wasn't Skill" got pushed as a Short back in Week 1.
Device split was unusual too: 53.5% computer, 35.9% mobile, 8.9% TV — a real departure from the mobile-heavy pattern everywhere else on this project. Not enough data yet to know why.
The working theory: both breakout pieces so far — this video and "That Wasn't Skill" — share a universally relatable, everyday-experience topic (crowds, near-misses on the road) rather than a specific claim or bias someone has to already be thinking about. Two data points isn't proof, but it's the clearest pattern the channel has produced yet, and it's what the next few topics should test against.
RevID's Growth plan math (2,000 credits ÷ ~244 per video at AI Moving Images Low ≈ 8 videos/month) stopped being a spreadsheet estimate this week. Credits ran out mid-cycle, and five consecutive videos — including the one already posted — are running on Stock footage as a direct result.
This is genuinely useful, not just an inconvenience: it's an unplanned but real side-by-side test of Stock vs. AI Moving Images, on the same channel, same character, same script style. Worth watching whether retention or view counts differ at all across the two.
| Long-form videos | 122 (64.2%) |
| Shorts | 68 (35.8%) |
| Shorts | 7 |
| Videos | 5 |