I Flopped


A tragic state of affairs has arisen. This week I posted a main channel video, a YouTube video deposited neatly onto my primary video-posting location. It's a twenty minute video about the first Bratz movie, from 2004, and it immediately sunk to the eighth or ninth place out of the previous ten videos I've posted. That, unfortunately, is a certified flop.

An analytics page showing the video in seventh place.
It has reached seven out of ten now. Bobbing atop the dregs.

A screenshot of the figures for views on recent uploads, with the Bratz video at about five thousand, and the top video at almost fifty thousand.

This can and must happen - it's the nature of posting. Some flops must occur. And potentially, the flop can help me to understand different elements of flop potential. But this also happened at the same time as another shocking video incident.

A screenshot of a video titled 'French Pokémon Names'.

I made a video for my second channel this week, too. Usually, I don't post anything to this one, but on a whim, I made and posted a video about French Pokémon names a few days ago. For some reason, this racked up a quick twenty thousand views. That's a normal amount for my main channel, but not for this secondary channel, which usually can expect to see a few hundred views, maybe a thousand.

Stats page for the French Pokémon Names video, showing it has almost twenty five thousand views.

But here I am, with sweetie-pie commenters piling up in the comment section of this video and a gently climbing view count, while my poor Bratz video languishes. A strange predicament. 

A comment from ritzmat reads: "Rhinoféros is a play on rhinoféros (rhono) and Féroce which you can translate to Fierce/Savage".

Perhaps I can yet slay...

3 comments:

  1. Clonky gets all the views and Mothcub just gets envious

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  2. I'm sorry I didn't watch the Bratz video yet, I'll get to it I swear.

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  3. Born to be a meanie-cake commenter, forced to be a sweetie-pie commenter

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