I recently had a couple hits on TikTok and it reminded me of the time I got the algorithm love from Youtube back in the day. My wife got the news called on her for her Halloween decorations in NC after moving from Texas. What is the most viral you have ever gone? What was it for? What platform was it on? Why do you think it worked?
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251 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 21 Mar
I got sick, and I'm pretty sure i gave it to my wife.
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41 sats \ 0 replies \ @ContraMundum5 21 Mar
Going viral is like catching lightning in a bottle, except the bottle is an algorithm, and the lightning is people arguing in the comments.
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187 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 21 Mar
My achievement pales in comparison, but I’m darn proud of it nonetheless. My deep dive into Satoshi Nakamoto’s name generated much discussion. It was among the Top threads for more than a day - I have never had such a successful post before (or since).
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136 sats \ 2 replies \ @denlillaapan 21 Mar
I had hundreds of thousands of people reading this one (early pandemic 2020, when we still had some respect for our health elders and fear of the virus): "What Sweden Has Done Right on Coronavirus?"
Between that and the research paper I wrote with Dan Klein and Christian Bjørnskov early on, never had that much popular traction (online, journalists, papers, citations) in anything I've ever produced.
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64 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satosora 21 Mar
Your work might not be "popular", but it has always had followers.
I am sure many would agree.
Keep up the good work.
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56 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 21 Mar
thank you, SIIIIR! Appreciate it
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Beeteesea 21 Mar
I exposed a NFT scam by posting a forum tread and it was picked up by several podcasts, blogs and was even mentioned on national TV when the whole thing blew up eventually.
It worked because I was in a very overhyped area, the scam had public persons involved and I put in a lot of research and other effort before posting.
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100 sats \ 6 replies \ @OneOneSeven 21 Mar
I used to make short League of Legends videos when funny shit happened in game. Two reached 170k and 200k views, like a decade ago.
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24 sats \ 5 replies \ @wait 21 Mar
Back in the day, YouTbe wasn’t all about makin that sweet cash, ya know?
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @OneOneSeven 21 Mar
Machinima even reached out to see if I wanted to make videos and partner with them somehow. Hard pass.
I assume they contacted anyone that had a viral gaming video back then to try and sucker them into some contract and crank out videos.
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51 sats \ 0 replies \ @carter OP 21 Mar
I got a bunch of those viral video companies reaching out trying to "partner" with me and it just seemed scammy so I never did it
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @wait 21 Mar
Whoa, did you accept it? a huge opportunity for ya! I’ve heard a ton of success stories similar.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @OneOneSeven 21 Mar
No 😂 haha!
It felt it'd be too much of a grind, making a lot of low quality content to meet some deadline.
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24 sats \ 0 replies \ @wait 21 Mar
If I were you, I’d never do that haha!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 21 Mar
laughing
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cointastical 21 Mar
Not really an answer to the question you are asking ... and this is a stretch, but:
An illustration used on the cover of Time magazine for a Person of the Year issue one year was based on a photo that showed myself and two other people. No, I wasn't the Person of the Year (at least, not the person that was illustrated), and no, I wasn't in the illustration, but that's my claim to fame.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @carter OP 21 Mar
my youtube video did 1.2 mil views in about a week 8 years ago https://youtu.be/rIbk0gynK1U?si=Ag4TJbDPDCNOIi7N I had been trying to post more regularly and the video the week before got 50k views and I wanted to amp it up. Because I was already signed up for the creator program getting 1$ checks every 3 years when it hit I made about 2k in ad revenue. I think it worked because I was in the pool with the device and everyone wanted to comment depth charge or I was gonna die. That perceived lack of safety drove commenting and that's what made the algo kick in. It lasted about a week and as fast as the 200k views a day started they were gone. I bought a new system 76 with the money
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