8 views channel-wide this week, and the video count crossed 20 — the threshold Week 4 set for finally running the title-framing test.
21 videos posted since launch, including a long-form/Short pair built from the same script. Two uploads from the prior two weeks still show zero recorded views after 10+ days live.
Three uploads land in this export: "The Pigeon Experiment That Explains Your Phone Addiction" (dated Sep 21 — right at last week's cutoff, so this is its first appearance in a log), the long-form "Why You Crave Bad News Daily," and its Short companion "Craving Bad News: An Ancient Survival System," built from the same script.
| Video | Type | Views (as of Sep 28) | Thumbnail impressions |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Pigeon Experiment That Explains Your Phone Addiction | Long-form | 4 | 210 |
| Why You Crave Bad News Daily | Long-form | 2 | 67 |
| Craving Bad News: An Ancient Survival System | Short | — | 5 |
8 total views landed across all 21 videos this week. That's slightly better than Week 5's 5, but still nowhere close to a breakout. Two uploads from the prior two weeks — "Why Bad News Spreads Faster Than Good News" (live since Sep 16) and "Why Simple Choices Feel Hard" (live since Sep 18) — still show zero recorded views in this export, 12 and 10 days after posting respectively. Not every video gets picked up. That's been true since the breakout guide first said so, and it's true again this week.
This is worth naming plainly rather than folding into a general "quiet week" line. Two videos with real, published data are sitting at zero recorded views well past the point where a Short usually starts getting some algorithmic distribution. It doesn't change the plan below, but it's the kind of pattern that should factor into which video actually runs the title test.
Week 4's decision was to hold the current visual identity and test title/hook framing once the channel passed 20 videos, so there'd be enough volume for a real signal instead of another two-data-point anecdote. That threshold is now crossed. Next step is picking which upcoming video actually runs the "aspirational, how-to" framing against the current "why does this happen" framing — not deciding it in the moment.