But they did say something that caught my attention, something along the line that eevblog likes/views/whatnot are paid for, fake.
Dave, you show the viewer count graph around 9:40 and is nice exponential growth, however the last part ( the last year or so ) looks kind of suspicious, it just doesn't follow the pattern, it is similar what you have shown for the dislikes, to huge spikes, a quick growth than a quick fallback to what was before basically then another big growth.... it doesn't seem in order to me. Honestly i don't think you did so well this year, it looks like that data is fabricated.
I'm not accusing you of lying, maybe you don't even know about it, someone else culd have paid for the likes/views, just as for the dislikes.
Care to elaborate a bit on that?
Sure, no problem, thanks for keeping me honest.
Short of showing my adsense revenue I'm happy to show any stat anyone asks for.
Here is some data on that spike period.
You can see my entire history both 7 days averaged and daily raw.
Then a close 1.5 years shot average and raw
And that spike around July does look a bit suss to the uninitiated, but it's nothing out of the ordinary in relative terms when you string a few popular video together back-to-back.
You can then see the spike itself and the videos that caused that.
The Electronic safe lock one was very popular, at the same time as the dumpster dive and anti-static wrist strap videos were popular as well. Bingo, you get the spike.
To prove it's real data look at the exact same graph with the minutes watched curve which directly correlates. Many people were simply genuinely viewing my videos.
If the views were fake/paid for, you wouldn't see the corresponding increase in record high estimated minutes watched count that tracked the views, that curve would have been flat.
Old videos like the white van speaker scam continue to contribute etc.
Just because you may not have found my videos all that good or interetsing recently does not mean other people have not. The data proves they are more popular than ever.
Hope that clears it up.
Bet you a million dollars Batteriser won't show their view data like that.