need some analysis on this channel, 300K views first video after 2 weeks?

channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ImagineThat-1x

is this growth natural? 300k views for their first video at 2 weeks? this channel caught my attention last week when the video was just 100k views and seems like its been going really high, is there some technique being used here?

Wow crazy amount of views, it's not even a short. In my very small amount of experience, I would say it's not natural.

alizer21 said:

channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ImagineThat-1x

is this growth natural? 300k views for their first video at 2 weeks? this channel caught my attention last week when the video was just 100k views and seems like its been going really high, is there some technique being used here?

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This is crazy. Is the video quality good?

The clickbait title & the thumbnail are quite strong, I myself clicked to watch that video
High CTR they've got might be the reason, I remember someone explained an approach to that here, basically your videos get displayed to a batches of peoples based on the Algo, and the higher CTR you get, the more your videos gets recommended and that's how you get Viral fast.

i don't think those are natural views, probably a room full of laptops running bots

Youtube is crazy these days :/

NO-CLUE-SEO said:

Wow crazy amount of views, it's not even a short. In my very small amount of experience, I would say it's not natural.

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doctorjones said:

i don't think those are natural views, probably a room full of laptops running bots

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yeah right???? theres no way in hell you get 300K views in 2 weeks, ON YOUR FIRST VIDEO!! something is not right here, ill investigate....

hsonj said:

This is crazy. Is the video quality good?

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the video is not even that good, it's something made in ms paint and they just added sound effects and powerpoint transitions, the voice is obviously tts too

alizer21 said:

yeah right???? theres no way in hell you get 300K views in 2 weeks, ON YOUR FIRST VIDEO!! something is not right here, ill investigate....

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Or he already have another successful channel and pushing the video through community section maybe that's his channel or copying him because content looks same to me !

Youtube is pushing ''binge'' content like this - Binge content disguised as ''science'' - basically mini-essays, essays, ''documentaries''
Look at the comments on that video, it looks like all real people. People wanna act smart, or say how it reminds them of this and that.


You underestimate the content addiction of these people
People watch shit like this, some people spend their entire waking day on youtube, and even when they fall asleep they fall asleep to videos playing.

I watched almost the entire video myself. It’s quite engaging and maybe YouTube is pushing this type of videos.

Jonastov said:

I watched almost the entire video myself. It’s quite engaging and maybe YouTube is pushing this type of videos.

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Yeah last few months my recommended feed been getting TONS of small channels with videos like these which are ''above average'' quality.

Basically videos that are not AI made

So my suspicion is YT is pushing forward small creators who have lots of retention on their videos and views from different world areas.

fielddigger said:

Youtube is pushing ''binge'' content like this - Binge content disguised as ''science'' - basically mini-essays, essays, ''documentaries''
Look at the comments on that video, it looks like all real people. People wanna act smart, or say how it reminds them of this and that.


You underestimate the content addiction of these people
People watch shit like this, some people spend their entire waking day on youtube, and even when they fall asleep they fall asleep to videos playing.

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although like that, ive tried the same niche and same formula with 5 channels and ultimately i failed, i have no idea how they got these views so fast on a new channel, currently im going to experiment with different IP/country using protonvpn

fielddigger said:

Yeah last few months my recommended feed been getting TONS of small channels with videos like these which are ''above average'' quality.

Basically videos that are not AI made

So my suspicion is YT is pushing forward small creators who have lots of retention on their videos and views from different world areas.

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its kinda weird, the video was mostly AI made, the voice is AI, the script is AI, the visuals are somehow low effort (everyone can do stickman drawing) and yet its being pushed to the algorithm

alizer21 said:

although like that, ive tried the same niche and same formula with 5 channels and ultimately i failed, i have no idea how they got these views so fast on a new channel, currently im going to experiment with different IP/country using protonvpn

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I don't know much about vpn's , are the IPs unique? maybe there are other accounts made with that IP?

alizer21 said:

its kinda weird, the video was mostly AI made, the voice is AI, the script is AI, the visuals are somehow low effort (everyone can do stickman drawing) and yet its being pushed to the algorithm

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That video doesn't seem like AI to me, it looks hand drawn in paint for sure though, but 2D animation isn't as easy as it looks to make. That video took that person probably days to make

alizer21 said:

its kinda weird, the video was mostly AI made, the voice is AI, the script is AI, the visuals are somehow low effort (everyone can do stickman drawing) and yet its being pushed to the algorithm

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Then go and produce 100 such videos.

You can't automate it. So it's not low effort.

I was checking and it doesn't seems to be using fake views or bot comments and seems is answering and giving likes to most if not all the comments but I believe that is a case of confusion because a lot of comments says they though was someone else and is not the first channel that is doing this type of content practically, downloading and reuploading the same video so is a confusion from followers seems like.

looks pretty real on socialblade https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UCq_UW2OlXP-NEdIZMtenWZw
daily random subscribers and views gained ( even though the subs counts ending at 0 is a bit sus)

r2150523 said:

Then go and produce 100 such videos.

You can't automate it. So it's not low effort.

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i definitely can, ive somehow wrote a simple semi-automated python script to AI generate the visuals, eleven labs for the voice, and chatgpt for the script,

im happy to announce that out of many attempts (10+ painful attempts and no sleep) i was able somehow to get one channel gain traction, it may not be much but it's something im proud of lol, i have a protonvpn subscription and set it to different countries, although the channel is not yet phone verified (its hard to find a working temp phone number nowadays) i was able to gain somehow decent views on a single channel, the country my vpn was set to france, so if anyone has a phone number for verifying this (france only) im happy for any offers





sooooo in conclusion, maybe it really does depend on the location where you upload the video...? for more details the google account i use is 2+ years old (i have A LOT of google accounts ive been aging like fine wine ) the google account is made in my native country, as for the youtube channel i made this last tuesday and also the video, both using a VPN (protonvpn set to france) in a windows 10 virtual machine, first video on this newly made channel

although i could be wrong, maybe its just algorithm luck, maybe you dont need a vpn, im just using a shotgun method here, i was able to get 1.4k views in 4 days which is a whole lot better than the 10-100 views i get on other channel attempts,