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Hey, I'm Sean.

I kind of knew this video would blow up once I saw the performance over the first couple of weeks and actually, I told Nito before we even shot the video that I thought this video topic would explode. Granted, I didn't know how long it would take for Youtube to start pushing it, but it was performing very well.

Youtube gives us a couple of stats on the backend that are really important.

1) Audience Retention (What % of the video people watch)
2) Click-through-rate (How many people open the video)

Looking at these two, I can compare to the Youtube averages and make a guess on how a video will perform.

Copying and pasting for you. I wrote a bit about how YT works here. To answer your question more specifically, the reason older videos eventually blow up is that they don't get many views at the beginning (usually the person has 0 subscribers). Then over time, YT A/B tests that video against other similar videos and slowly but surely it accumulates clicks and watch time. It takes a long time to gather this data since YT won't really prioritize small channels when proven videos with lots of views are already working well enough.

Hope that helps. - Sean (and Nami)

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/jk7ybb/i_am_a_japanese_dude_having_been_a_shutinaka/gahm7u0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

If it's your dream job have you considered getting a DSLR and starting? You can do a lot on a relatively small budget in photography with how nice everything is now.

The dream job aspect of it can be achieved without the recognition. Go camping. Take photos. Learn & Repeat. That's really all there is to it. You may not get paid, but with a year or so of effort you can get to a point where you can sell prints.

Hey I'm Sean, I wrote a bit about YT here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/jk7ybb/i_am_a_japanese_dude_having_been_a_shutinaka/gahm7u0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

No worries mate and thanks!