The math behind Baby Shark's viewcount

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  • @EverythingTheorist
    @EverythingTheorist 2 роки тому +2216

    The quick "You don't want to know the answer" when showing the third tetrations definitely caught me off guard. Not sure if it was just me but that was hilarious.

    • @user-qh5jk1mn5i
      @user-qh5jk1mn5i 2 роки тому +73

      wait until you hear about pentation, repeated tetration

    • @firstnameiskowitz8493
      @firstnameiskowitz8493 2 роки тому +36

      @@user-qh5jk1mn5i Hexation: hold my beer

    • @Cessated
      @Cessated 2 роки тому +9

      @@firstnameiskowitz8493 10{x}10:

    • @Cessated
      @Cessated 2 роки тому +4

      oh right gₓ too

    • @tylert528
      @tylert528 2 роки тому +12

      @@user-qh5jk1mn5i **endless stairwell has joined the chat**

  • @ottergauze
    @ottergauze 2 роки тому +1780

    The moral of the story is never underestimate children's inability to know when enough is enough.

    • @cannedfruitbats
      @cannedfruitbats 2 роки тому +18

      💀

    • @holl7w
      @holl7w 2 роки тому +29

      He never explained it. He stretched the video so he can be monetized.

    • @ottergauze
      @ottergauze 2 роки тому +42

      @@holl7w money is good, yes

    • @webpombo7765
      @webpombo7765 2 роки тому +27

      @@holl7w Not really, nowadays optimal youtube time to monetize as much as possible is 8 minutes, it is no longer 10 minutes.

    • @BobRossCat
      @BobRossCat 2 роки тому +6

      @@holl7w no, if it was 8 minutes if would be that.

  • @MLGaeming
    @MLGaeming 2 роки тому +1435

    I like it when full numbers are shown, I feel like it makes them more meaningful. It also makes it more legible for certain languages because of spaces, eg in Estonian you'd see "413 tuh vaatamist" instead of "413K views", which is kind of hard to see on first glance.

    • @markusTegelane
      @markusTegelane 2 роки тому +23

      Maybe they could do something like what they did with the like/dislike bar, where you could see the precise number of likes/dislikes if you hovered the mouse cursor over the ratio bar (at least they did that before removing public dislike count). Or they could make it a toggle in UA-cam settings for those who prefer it.

    • @namethathasntbeentakenyetm3682
      @namethathasntbeentakenyetm3682 2 роки тому +1

      I prefer MLG Gaming to ML Gaming.

    • @tostitossssss
      @tostitossssss 2 роки тому +8

      @@namethathasntbeentakenyetm3682 ermmmmm... but that actually is repetitive sooooooooooo...

    • @tweer64
      @tweer64 2 роки тому +3

      @@namethathasntbeentakenyetm3682 Major League Gaming Gaming?

    • @CraftyMasterman
      @CraftyMasterman 2 роки тому +3

      elo rebane

  • @LeoYoshi54321
    @LeoYoshi54321 2 роки тому +591

    I momentarily had a crisis when I tried coming to terms with how much watch time Baby Shark has. 7.57 centuries collectively. All spent watching Baby Shark.

    • @cinnamoncat8950
      @cinnamoncat8950 2 роки тому +56

      Truly the worst timeline

    • @windowsxpmemesandstufflol
      @windowsxpmemesandstufflol 2 роки тому +12

      Wait, you know the average view duration of Baby Shark?

    • @EZX280
      @EZX280 2 роки тому +53

      @@windowsxpmemesandstufflol It's probably assuming that every person watched until the end. Which most kids (target audience) do.

    • @windowsxpmemesandstufflol
      @windowsxpmemesandstufflol 2 роки тому +26

      @@EZX280 most videos have a big drop right after the start, I'd think it will have a 80% avg, view duration at most rather than 9x%

    • @strtrm2406
      @strtrm2406 2 роки тому +20

      I don't think that figure is right, it's actually much *worse*.
      With 11bn views and 136 second runtime, assuming everyone watched it to the end, the actual total watch time is (11e9 * 136) / (86400 * 365.2425 * 100) = ~470 centuries.

  • @nappotapo2672
    @nappotapo2672 2 роки тому +234

    if there are ~2 billion parents with internet access (if my math is correct), then the average parent has watched baby shark 5 times

    • @reeeedst53
      @reeeedst53 2 роки тому +8

      it definitely makes sense

    • @diedie865
      @diedie865 2 роки тому +4

      in democratic countries

    • @purrplaysLE
      @purrplaysLE 2 роки тому +6

      That assumes only parents watch that video.

    • @zerotwoisreal
      @zerotwoisreal 2 роки тому +5

      the average view bot you mean

    • @TeamSprocket
      @TeamSprocket 2 роки тому

      @@diedie865 undemocratic countries also have internet

  • @fantiscious
    @fantiscious 2 роки тому +267

    *Bonus fact* : Tetration is such a mysterious operation that no one knows how we should properly extend it to decimal inputs. We know that 3 tetrated by 3 would be 7625597484987, 2 tetrated by 4 would be 65536, and 100 tetrated by 100 would be [ERROR], but we're not sure what 2 tetrated by 0.5 would be, or 5 tetrated by 1.2. There's just not enough properties we've found to define them.

    • @alexpotts6520
      @alexpotts6520 2 роки тому +51

      Bonus bonus fact: although tetration cannot be extended to fractional inputs, it can (in a somewhat limited way) be extended to *infinite* inputs. For a certain range of numbers between about 0.06 and 1.44, you can tetrate those numbers to the power of infinity and get a sensible answer out.

    • @General12th
      @General12th 2 роки тому +27

      Tetration also generally doesn't have a well-defined inverse operator. And, of course, they don't work very well on non-integer inputs.
      I've always wondered if tetration is mysterious because nobody's managed to define it yet or if it's because it's fundamentally _undefinable._ Maybe there's some proof from the 1930s proving that tetration can't be extended like exponentials can and that's the end of that.

    • @fantiscious
      @fantiscious 2 роки тому +5

      @@General12th Well I have heard of something called "Kneser's Solution", and it's been shown to be the only extension to satisfy some criteria that we have. I think the real issue is that there are too many other suggested extensions, and ALL of them are too complicated to understand in layman's terms (this is just my guess though, i am not a math major yet)

    • @subscheme
      @subscheme 2 роки тому +3

      @@General12th I’ve herd about superlogarithms I think they’re the inverse of tetration

    • @asj3419
      @asj3419 2 роки тому +4

      so if log (x^y) = y*log(x) => log(a↑↑b) = a↑↑(b-1)*log(a)
      then 100↑↑100 would be a 1 followed by 100↑↑99 zeroes. Probably too big to fit in a youtube comment.

  • @WebFreak001
    @WebFreak001 2 роки тому +331

    In UA-cam Germany view count numbers to outsiders seem to be showing accurately up to 999,999, after which there is x.y million for numbers above 10^6 and then xy million for numbers above 10^7
    IIRC UA-cam used to just append ,000 here for thousands in Germany, probably because the "K" for thousand is not that established in the German language. But I think people might have gotten confused by that, so they changed it to exact numbers up to 999,999.
    note: I used a comma [,] in this comment for the thousands separator, but in German we actually use a dot [.]

    • @Polynom1995
      @Polynom1995 2 роки тому +22

      I have seen 'T' for thousand instead of 'K' in some places before, but it's still uncommon. They could have use 'Tsd.' though, wich is more common, can't be confused and would be in line with the 'Mio.' and 'Mrd.' for Million and Billion.

    • @alesonbrjk
      @alesonbrjk 2 роки тому +2

      in brazil we see K as mil because well mil is what a thousand is and its just a 3 letter word

    • @asheep7797
      @asheep7797 2 роки тому +4

      @@Polynom1995 mrd = milliard?

    • @Polynom1995
      @Polynom1995 2 роки тому +13

      @@asheep7797 Yes. 1 Milliarde (german) = 1 Billion (english); also 1 Billion (german) = 1 Trillion (english) which can be confusing

    • @kopie1158
      @kopie1158 2 роки тому +1

      @@Polynom1995 that usually isn't for "thousand" but for a different word starting with T
      Tisíc, Tysiąc, Тисяча, Тысяча, Tisoč.....

  • @pesterenan
    @pesterenan 2 роки тому +420

    Even though this was a "shower thought" video, I've found it really interesting! So cool to see how the metrics are truncated.

    • @greggregoryst7126
      @greggregoryst7126 2 роки тому

      Not "even though", but "thanks to"

    • @RafaelFerreira-sg1ki
      @RafaelFerreira-sg1ki 2 роки тому +3

      Mano tu tá até aqui hahah. Parece q sempre encontro seus comentários em todos os vídeos q vejo

  • @Doggyshakespeare
    @Doggyshakespeare 2 роки тому +270

    5:22 In fact, if you switch your language to an East Asian language on UA-cam, the pattern of the number of significant figures changes, as digits are grouped by 萬/万/만 (10000) instead of K (1000): 1234 views stays as 1234, 12345 views is truncated to 1.2萬, 123456 views is truncated to 12萬, 1234567 views becomes 123萬, 12345678 views becomes 1234萬, and so on. Additionally, (at least) some Indian languages have another different digit grouping system so likely something different happens if you switch to one of those languages.

    • @MeesterTweester
      @MeesterTweester 2 роки тому +8

      I recently learned some Indian languages don't count digits in groups of three, interesting

    • @universe1879
      @universe1879 2 роки тому +9

      in Chinese writing 萬 means 10K so it gets kinda complicated when we need to convey a few tens of thousands to foreigners and since 億 is the largest common unit and it means 100M (we do not have a character for million or billion it is also odd to convey to Chinese people

    • @padraicfanning7055
      @padraicfanning7055 2 роки тому +6

      ​@@universe1879 In English, the word _myriad_ used to mean "ten thousand".

    • @universe1879
      @universe1879 2 роки тому +1

      @@padraicfanning7055 oh, but it's not that common y'know

    • @Firefly256
      @Firefly256 2 роки тому +6

      @@universe1879 English uses a new word for every 3 numbers while Chinese does it for every 4 numbers
      For example,
      1451826891 in English would be separated to 1, 451, 826, 891. So it would be pronounced as “1 trillion 451 billion 826 million and 891”
      1451826891 in Chinese would be separated to 14, 5182, 6891. So it would be pronounced as “14億 5182萬 6891”

  • @WilcoVerhoef
    @WilcoVerhoef 2 роки тому +67

    9:17 "They're using 5 characters, to represent a 4-digit number"
    Yes, but 4 digit-numbers are also often written using 5 characters because of a thousand-separator (digit grouping)

    • @gdmomie2954
      @gdmomie2954 2 роки тому +5

      yes but then they would give more information so that's why it's weird

  • @windy6587
    @windy6587 2 роки тому +68

    tbh baby shark is stuck in an endless loop of views generating cause parents play this video to feed their kids or to entertain them cause it attracts kids and keeps them addicted. and they choose this video out of all the videos since this is the most popular one. this forms that loop

    • @copter2000
      @copter2000 2 роки тому +17

      It could've been the duck song.

    • @SurmenianSoldier
      @SurmenianSoldier 2 роки тому +4

      @@copter2000 Do you have any grapes?

    • @Anonymous-df8it
      @Anonymous-df8it 2 роки тому +3

      Yeah, I was wondering why it had so many views. Just memorise the lyrics, damn it!

  • @spocite
    @spocite 2 роки тому +70

    “that is as much precision as youtube could possibly give as there’s no such thing as a fractional view”
    *splits myself into thirds*

    • @th1v5
      @th1v5 2 роки тому +2

      @Dungeons & Dragons 🅥 get outta here bot

    • @drearyplane8259
      @drearyplane8259 2 роки тому

      @@th1v5 God I hate those things

    • @什么-h5t
      @什么-h5t 2 роки тому

      @Dungeons & Dragons 🅥 Leave

    • @the4spaceconstantstetraqua886
      @the4spaceconstantstetraqua886 2 роки тому

      Well you're still on one device, one press of tthe play button at a time.

    • @miiwii
      @miiwii 2 роки тому

      if you split yourself into thirds that would just mean 3 views

  • @Maya1_404
    @Maya1_404 7 місяців тому +40

    It’s at 14B now, I’m scared.

  • @michaelwarnecke3474
    @michaelwarnecke3474 2 роки тому +28

    "If we have that third number anyways, might as well make it useful"
    Lets hope youtube doesn't catch onto the fact that there is still something they can ruin left

  • @gortusbortus
    @gortusbortus 2 роки тому +43

    This is probably the most important thing happening right now

  • @DoomRater
    @DoomRater 2 роки тому +34

    The truncation process is really useful in idle games that grow their numbers into exponential growth after a decent amount of time. So yeah there's gaming applications to these numbers

    • @sHooIT
      @sHooIT 2 роки тому +5

      Or for the incremental genre where your numbers grow exponentially as soon as you click one button

  • @Mrqwertar
    @Mrqwertar 2 роки тому +21

    I remember the good ol' days when Gangnam Style was the first video ever to reach 1 billion views and we were all impressed. It even had a cute little animation next to the view count to celebrate

  • @doublecsquared
    @doublecsquared 2 роки тому +18

    i love these types of videos, thanks cary! now i know i'm not the only one who is fascinated by the way youtube trunctuates their numbers!

    • @Abloxfruitsyoutuber
      @Abloxfruitsyoutuber 7 місяців тому

      how does doublecsquareds comment have 16 likes anyways your vids are great!

  • @imnotbadokbro
    @imnotbadokbro 2 роки тому +25

    0:57
    “what about taking numbers to the third titration?”
    I've seen worse

  • @hfjone
    @hfjone 2 роки тому +64

    how is this man the only guy who can get me interested in this stuff

    • @stanisdeadprobably
      @stanisdeadprobably 2 роки тому +1

      @Dungeons & Dragons 🅥 imagine if it actually was here

    • @garfield2804
      @garfield2804 2 роки тому +1

      hey vsauce

    • @kgratia4748
      @kgratia4748 2 роки тому

      @Томмуlnnit 🅥 DCDA, stupid bots.

    • @prxmp
      @prxmp 8 місяців тому

      because he made bfdi

  • @thanksomuch1557
    @thanksomuch1557 2 роки тому +36

    I've never thought about this before (besides thinking it's weird that the channel page doesn't show the full sub count), but this was still a very interesting and entertaining video. Great work as always, Cary!

  • @jblen
    @jblen 2 роки тому +443

    That's an interesting topic. Nothing to do with AI or any project of your own, but it was still very fun to watch.
    I'm still baffled at baby shark being so popular though. Sure, it's only 1.x views per person averaging the world, but there's only 2.6 billion users on UA-cam ("only") so that's 3.8 views per person, and on such a large scale with most viewers only watching once or not at all, there must be kids watching literally hundreds or even thousands of times to make up for it.

    • @beatraad
      @beatraad 2 роки тому +40

      Once you have kids who grow up with internet access, you’ll understand!

    • @catmacopter8545
      @catmacopter8545 2 роки тому +15

      And also the many many users with multiple people using them, and the non-users also watching!

    • @malumy
      @malumy 2 роки тому +40

      It is pretty horrifying to think that a lot of children grow up like this

    • @MayorVideo
      @MayorVideo 2 роки тому +3

      there's also probably some viewbotting

    • @jblen
      @jblen 2 роки тому +7

      @@MayorVideo viewbotting doesn't get to this level. Not to mention because it's for children they probably make no money off it anyway. I mean we're talking millions daily, so consistently that it could reach 10,000 millions, which if it was 1 million a day would take 27 years but instead it's only been 3 or 4

  • @5alpha23
    @5alpha23 2 роки тому +5

    Can we all please take a moment to praise the animator for his astonishing work of syncing the mouth movements to the speech?! That must have taken ages!

  • @TheJamesM
    @TheJamesM 2 роки тому +138

    When looking at the inconsistency and superficial illogic of how UA-cam does it, it's important to consider that the primary concern for this kind of design is visual appearance (both legibility and aesthetics).
    Regarding the inconsistency between subscriber and view counts, it makes sense for them to be displayed differently because they appear in different parts of the page. The subscriber count isn't surrounded by much other information, so it can afford to be a little more verbose, and subscriptions are harder to achieve than views, so each one "means" more and it's worth displaying with a little more precision. The shortened view counts, on the other hand, tend to appear in lists which are fairly dense with information, which is why keeping them easily legible at a glance is a priority. The view count of the current video is displayed in a completely separate easily identifiable area, so it can afford to have full precision without making things too confusing.
    Regarding the apparent illogic of using an abbreviation that consists of more characters than the raw number, again I think the result makes sense from a design perspective. The objective isn't to minimize the bytes used, it's the minimize the screen space used while maximizing the legibility. The decimal separator may be an extra byte of HTML, but a video streaming site is hardly in the business of scrounging individual bytes of saved bandwidth here and there, and it takes a fraction of the space a digit would have (also consider that where raw numbers are displayed, they use thousand separators, so it may not even be a character saving at all). And I feel like the order of magnitude suffix (or whatever you call the trailing K/M/B) is readily visually separable, meaning it's primarily the number of digits the user is seeing that impact on information overload/legibility/however you want to put it.
    Anyway, fun video!

    • @ToriKo_
      @ToriKo_ 2 роки тому +4

      Great comment. YTs way intuitively made sense to me, but it’s nice to be able to hear and articulate now that that reason was because of purposeful design choices by a company that spends a lot of time and money on design choices

    • @Anonymous-df8it
      @Anonymous-df8it 2 роки тому +1

      No. 2.72K and 272X can both be written in the same amount of space, only one provides more precision. So, it might not *_save_* space, but it doesn't hurt to gain a little more precision

    • @TheJamesM
      @TheJamesM 2 роки тому +2

      @@Anonymous-df8it I have no hard science to back this up, but I feel like I naturally parse the magnitude suffix separately than the digits. The cognitive load (miniscule though it is) is smaller if there's fewer numerical digits. 2.72K feels like less to take in than 2728 to me, and I don't feel the added precision is of particular interest in that context. On the video page it's appropriate, but elsewhere I think it would seem pedantic.

    • @TurretBot
      @TurretBot 2 роки тому +1

      UA-cam doesn't truncate sub counts for aesthetics, they do it to protect big UA-cam from mass unsubscription protests.

  • @luigimaster111
    @luigimaster111 2 роки тому +3

    Children are the most powerful viewbots.
    I almost wish I could return to that, being able to rewatch the same thing 50 times and still finding it enthralling.

  • @fashiharz8584
    @fashiharz8584 2 роки тому +18

    I thought you were going to dissect that song, why the song is mathematically addictive. I know that there's a mathematical formula to make an earworm song.

  • @Thiscooldude123
    @Thiscooldude123 2 роки тому +4

    My personal theory is that teachers keep making kindergarteners watch baby shark😂

  • @fatcerberus
    @fatcerberus 2 роки тому +8

    Reminds me of idle games (Cookie Clicker, e.g.) where after you play long enough you start losing significant figures in all the costs and stats, which is fascinating because it doesn’t make the games any less playable when this happens - the less-significant figures _literally don’t matter_ at that point!

  • @imstupid880
    @imstupid880 2 роки тому +3

    Also, I just wanted to say, on the topic of measuring growth, I've been following you since about 4 years ago, and it's been amazing seeing you grow and get the recognition you deserve, from a relatively niche small channel to something than can regularly get videos in the algorithm. Good work man!

  • @TheVocoderGuy
    @TheVocoderGuy 2 роки тому +1

    Ngl, the animated character made this video a listening experience

  • @backtomakingvideos
    @backtomakingvideos Рік тому +4

    There are 3 billion bots watching Baby Shark.

  • @daffquess7006
    @daffquess7006 2 роки тому +4

    I love how Cary is someone who 100% knows how to inspect element and make the numbers in the view count change, and yet his style is to write over the view count in handwriting. Commitment.

  • @photophone5574
    @photophone5574 2 роки тому +12

    I thought the metric would've been "repeat viewers" or "people who only watch x type of content" and now I really want to know some of that.

    • @MarcTelang
      @MarcTelang 2 роки тому +1

      the repeat viewers would be high for any music video and almost all of them are music (if you can count annoying kid songs as music).

  • @sheepishly6942
    @sheepishly6942 2 роки тому +2

    I thought the title said "the man behind baby shark's viewcount" and I was expecting the story of some guy watching it on repeat religiously

  • @NikitaKaramov
    @NikitaKaramov 2 роки тому +7

    I have my UA-cam interface set to German (Germany), and I don’t have this; my view counts up until 999,999 have ALL sigfigs anywhere on the site (this video popped up in my recommendations as having, well, 162,202 views). Starting with one million, it’s as shown in this video. Weird!

  • @baconsimp5295
    @baconsimp5295 2 роки тому +1

    This is why I am subscribed to the CaryKH UA-cam channel, I get to watch epic spreadsheet content about funny shark song. 👍

  • @Sidnoea
    @Sidnoea 2 роки тому +4

    how to explain logarithms without saying the word "logarithm":

    • @notthatntg
      @notthatntg 2 роки тому

      opposite of power so log_2(65536)=16

  • @Gizmote
    @Gizmote 2 роки тому +2

    The full view count is sometimes covered by the like count because of the new "download" and "clip" options making that info bar wider, as well as the word "dislike" instead of the dislike count. I literally need to zoom out to view this video's full view count

  • @meltyninjers
    @meltyninjers 2 роки тому +9

    interestingly, under the east asian system (using 万 and 億 for 10,000 and 100,000,000) you can get up to four sig figs, so even if one day baby shark has 100 billion views, the view count to outside observers will still go up every 100 million views in east asia

  • @jvcs5738
    @jvcs5738 2 роки тому +7

    I thought it was gonna be what was the click-rate between children compared to adults along with an overall clickrate, but the lesson on rounding numbers like this should be more visible to the word like bfdi

  • @MrEdrum
    @MrEdrum 2 роки тому +12

    I thought this video would go into some sort of limitation regarding for example floating point number precision. Even though it makes no sense to save views as floating point numbers. 10B is bigger than 2^32 (about 4.3B) but if you use 32 Bit integers you either have an overflow, or the views stay at a maximum of 4.3B. Anyways nice video.

  • @Desslosh
    @Desslosh 2 роки тому +2

    This is how you turn something seemingly uninteresting and invisible into very interesting, noticeable and entertaining.

  • @43615
    @43615 2 роки тому +4

    really wish some of these platforms had an "i'm not afraid of big numbers" mode

    • @xdn22
      @xdn22 2 роки тому +1

      YES

  • @TheHimikoToga
    @TheHimikoToga 2 роки тому +15

    Cary shower thoughts are more interesting than my life

  • @EastPort10
    @EastPort10 2 роки тому +13

    Thank you for telling me tetrations are a thing.
    I looked it up after this and learned about Hyperoperations which were a thing I had thought about many times but only now learned actually has a name and a mathematical formula to go with it!
    I am stupidly ecstatic about this in a way only a math nerd could be.

    • @mullafacation
      @mullafacation 2 роки тому +1

      I like coming up with functions (hence "mullafacation") and I figured that it would be useless to have operations like tetrations because they would get too big.
      I am interested though in whether there's a name on a factorial-like operation that adds or subtracts rather than multiplies but maybe that is truly useless...

    • @Anonymous-df8it
      @Anonymous-df8it 2 роки тому +3

      @@mullafacation Yes! The triangular numbers.

  • @abraxas2658
    @abraxas2658 2 роки тому +2

    baby shark needs 1/8 of despacito's full viewcount to register a single change. I feel like this view of it really highlights the power of this sort of breakpoint in formulas.

  • @gringusgaming
    @gringusgaming 2 роки тому +3

    I have watched baby shark 0 times and plan to keep it that way

    • @TunaBear64
      @TunaBear64 2 роки тому +1

      Same, but I love to see big numbers and that almost 11 Billion is really tempting to see.

    • @gringusgaming
      @gringusgaming Рік тому

      ​@@TunaBear64hmmm... true

  • @pablo.gonzales.2008
    @pablo.gonzales.2008 2 роки тому +1

    Cary's channel is slowly becoming Film Theory but educational

  • @SzaSzabiYT
    @SzaSzabiYT Рік тому +6

    0:15 good to see a Hungarian appearing in the video. Interesting thoughts!

  • @vizior_monteur9130
    @vizior_monteur9130 2 роки тому +11

    You literally are amazing- like imagine another UA-camr that explains math are basically so boring to watch, but you make it interesting and entertaining ! You are doing animation, entertaining math and more! You are really awesome! Plus you created the first ever object show in the world! You were doing animation (with your brother) when you were a kid! That is awesome! I don’t know if you realize how you are amazing- Continue like that! Bye !

  • @johnchessant3012
    @johnchessant3012 2 роки тому +3

    Very nice observation on how 2.72k literally takes more characters than 2725, just a baffling choice by youtube

  • @johndoe_1984
    @johndoe_1984 2 роки тому +1

    But when you click on the video description, you see the accurate number, whatever high it is. So..

  • @Bluey
    @Bluey 2 роки тому +3

    9:27 Actually, they would provide more information with the exact same character count, because they actually use commas in numbers.

  • @lilguygamingandmore
    @lilguygamingandmore 2 роки тому +2

    I like how he uses bfdi and bfb backgrounds behind his animated send when he has nothing to show on screen

  • @mahalisyarifuddin
    @mahalisyarifuddin 2 роки тому +10

    Because some of the comments also pointed out that localization also have some importance, I would like to know if there's any Indian here can explain this matter in relevance of their interesting digit groupings like lakh, crore, and beyond.

  • @What-thaW
    @What-thaW 2 роки тому

    Finally, a video focusing on UA-cam view statistics. This is what I have been waiting for, thank you Carykh.

  • @RXCodes
    @RXCodes 2 роки тому +3

    Very fascinating 😳 I never thought numbers would be this interesting

  • @Aydycakes
    @Aydycakes 2 роки тому

    i bet as soon as i even click on that baby shark video my recommendations are gonna be filled with pinkfong

  • @treeplate512
    @treeplate512 9 місяців тому +4

    2:51 a view is a view, you cant say its only a half

  • @cyrusmarikitph
    @cyrusmarikitph 2 роки тому +1

    Display on my phone: probably 213k.

  • @imoutodaisuki
    @imoutodaisuki 2 роки тому +4

    0:55 the mention of that name trigger war ptsd within me

  • @RedStinger_0
    @RedStinger_0 2 роки тому +2

    9:17 technically if you include the comma to divide every 3 digits, you'd still need 5 characters to represent a 4-digit number

    • @TunaBear64
      @TunaBear64 2 роки тому +1

      If you need a comma to properly read a 4-digit number, I'm genuinely concerned.

    • @notthatntg
      @notthatntg 2 роки тому +1

      @@TunaBear64 i only need commas to read numbers over a million

    • @locomotivetrainstation6053
      @locomotivetrainstation6053 2 роки тому

      @@notthatntg yeah 10 million + is where I need commas 9999999 and below I can read quite easily

    • @Anonymous-df8it
      @Anonymous-df8it 2 роки тому +1

      It still has more information though

  • @shengshu3510
    @shengshu3510 2 роки тому +3

    Added nuance: for the first views after passing each power, there seems to be only one sig fig. For instance, 1000-1099 views is always just 1K instead of 1.0K views

    • @Pystro
      @Pystro 2 роки тому

      Also seems to happen to 7.0k displaying as "7k". I think the ".0" is just always dropped. At least it was for the viewer count of a stream. That was the first entry in the recommendation list with singles as the most significant digit that should have a ".0". And I only took 1 sample because I had to scroll through pages and pages of thumbnails to find it.

  • @CCABPSacsach
    @CCABPSacsach 2 роки тому +1

    Within half a year, baby shark managed to gain an extra billion views. Half a year...

  • @coffeetea786
    @coffeetea786 2 роки тому +7

    3:29
    Cary: *tries to make an Australian slang-like word*
    Cary: sIgFiGs

    • @mous3kteer
      @mous3kteer 2 роки тому +4

      ?? but "sigfigs" is a super common shortening of "significant figures"? I'm not when the last time was that I _didn't_ shorten it to sigfigs when talking.

    • @ItzzAlooOfficial
      @ItzzAlooOfficial Рік тому +1

      Hey another Pakistani

  • @kono152
    @kono152 2 роки тому

    i watched this without even realizing it was for SoME2, nice work

  • @Cyranek
    @Cyranek 2 роки тому +4

    5:35 triggered my regex ptsd

    • @Maazin5
      @Maazin5 2 роки тому

      \d{3}[KMB]

  • @mathiew_
    @mathiew_ 2 роки тому +2

    So glad you're allowed to post these random data vids! And please do more, as you can tell by the mysterious lack of decimal point, we do watch these videos! So keep them coming, because (in my opinion) posting regular low-quality vids is much better than posting very irregularily!
    (also I just realised no decimal point could mean you have anything less than 1,100 views, I'm sorry)

  • @YesItsFrozen
    @YesItsFrozen 2 роки тому +3

    After 3 days it’s now 11B :0

  • @user_romanport
    @user_romanport 2 роки тому +3

    Great video as always. Remember back in the day when Gangnam Style overflowed the 32-bit view counter? Seems like nothing compared to the views videos are getting now, haha!

  • @arkanon8661
    @arkanon8661 2 роки тому +1

    i am scared that my future children will go insane if they repetitively watch baby shark lmao

  • @woodhidh
    @woodhidh 2 роки тому +3

    There are videos which are much more deserving of 10B views than baby shark

  • @untitledcat1636
    @untitledcat1636 2 роки тому

    I can't imagine what this excessively popular video's full analytics look like on the Pinkfong computer.

  • @EverythingTheorist
    @EverythingTheorist 2 роки тому +3

    Update from about a day after this video was posted: Baby Shark officially has over 11B views now!
    Also, haven't seen anyone mention the thumbnail art, but I like the hand-drawn style.

    • @EverythingTheorist
      @EverythingTheorist 2 роки тому

      Update from about 6 months after this video was posted: Baby Shark is at about 12.2 billion views now. Dear gosh.

  • @BudgetGames69
    @BudgetGames69 2 роки тому

    Whenever I watch these videos and I don’t understand *anything* , but he explains stuff so we’ll that I actually get what he’s talking about! Props to you, Cary.

  • @aidanmcgaugh5419
    @aidanmcgaugh5419 2 роки тому +4

    The video you showed with 8 views is gonna become the most viewed video after this lol

  • @NoShldJ_KonkoLLC
    @NoShldJ_KonkoLLC 2 роки тому +1

    I have always wanted to know what a power tower is called and now I know it’s called a tetration!

  • @RealFlippyPlayz
    @RealFlippyPlayz 2 роки тому +7

    "There's no such thing as a fractional view"
    Also Cary, 3 minutes earlier: "The average human out of all of them has watched Baby Shark 1.38 times"
    (I know this is an average number, not actual statistical data towards UA-cam or the point of the video)

  • @prim16
    @prim16 2 роки тому +1

    "Sir, this is a Wendy's"

  • @WangleLine
    @WangleLine 2 роки тому +3

    This was so interesting!! I'd absolutely watch more shower-thought-y videos of yours

  • @mourningdove5679
    @mourningdove5679 2 роки тому +2

    Cary: makes a whole video on the topic
    What I’ve always said: people just watch the video more than once

  • @isanlahardy1546
    @isanlahardy1546 2 роки тому +3

    Now is 11 billion

  • @seba2366
    @seba2366 3 місяці тому +1

    In spanish, UA-cam shows the viewcount in Spanish numeration, meaning a Billion is a thousand Million, which makes the views say "mil M"

  • @m3nmin
    @m3nmin 2 роки тому +4

    It's kinda sad that none of the 10 most popular videos are real, user created videos.

  • @ElDiosMashiar
    @ElDiosMashiar Місяць тому +2

    Now it has 15B.

  • @zelenpixel
    @zelenpixel 2 роки тому +4

    something about the fact that the most viewed video on youtube is one of these popular baby videos that babies watch a kajillion times every day so they get inflated view counts. just kind of makes me upset

    • @kirtil5177
      @kirtil5177 2 роки тому +2

      i wonder how different all these stats would be if views were unique per account, like likes are, so once you view you cant view twice or more

    • @the4spaceconstantstetraqua886
      @the4spaceconstantstetraqua886 2 роки тому

      @@kirtil5177 There is an actual statistic only accessible to the content creator which is the number of unique veiws.

    • @the4spaceconstantstetraqua886
      @the4spaceconstantstetraqua886 2 роки тому

      Same, just that I don't like insanely high stats of any type on kids videos/channels.
      Views, you know why, but subscribers? WHAT HAS TO HAPPEN!?

  • @greendude2616
    @greendude2616 2 роки тому

    Such simple concept from a average video seeming got so popular with is simple but mesmerised pattern that lures people giving it so much power

  • @prunabluepepper
    @prunabluepepper 2 роки тому +4

    How this can happen: repeat watchings and probably watching the video on half speed. the video is also highly linked throughout the net and collects automated views by surf-bys

    • @miguelangelmartinezcasado8935
      @miguelangelmartinezcasado8935 2 роки тому

      Half speed only affects retention time, not amount of views.
      I know it cause you can test it in small videos. It only counts as 1

    • @prunabluepepper
      @prunabluepepper 2 роки тому

      @@miguelangelmartinezcasado8935 I believe the Spiffing Brit found out otherwise.
      I think it's that watch through time gives you one count of view for each time you watch the video until the threshold is met for the count. This threshold is actually met already before 100% watchtime is reached. This is why skipping forward in a video still counts as having seen it fully. Same goes for starting to watch it, then pausing it, leaving the side on, while the time measured by the cookie keeps ticking.
      View-time, or watch-through-time is calculated 1 per whole video ( resp. threshold met). If you watch on half speed while the video content is accelerated you feel like you watch it on 1x speed, however, the AI calculates 2 seconds of watch time for every 1 second that passed in reality. The threshold is thus met twice within the span of the same video. Thus it get's two views.

  • @1playplayerclosed
    @1playplayerclosed 10 місяців тому +1

    ooh, so that's why South Korea is very popular

  • @D3stroyer6969
    @D3stroyer6969 2 роки тому +9

    1:49 did anyone see the bfdi 1a over there

  • @rileytat123
    @rileytat123 2 роки тому +1

    cary just spoke middle school

  • @Abdullah-mon
    @Abdullah-mon 2 роки тому +4

    I’m kind of confused though how can baby shark get 10B views if not that people exist in the world

    • @Mobin92
      @Mobin92 2 роки тому +1

      You can watch things multiple times?

  • @keterpatrol7527
    @keterpatrol7527 2 роки тому +1

    Gangnam Style has been *real* quiet after baby shark dropped

  • @RTOF
    @RTOF 2 роки тому +8

    1:18 hearing carykh say this felt surreal

  • @UntitledVideoChannel
    @UntitledVideoChannel 2 місяці тому

    Imagine 2 billion people creating an alt account just to watch baby shark again 💀💀💀

  • @Orinslayer
    @Orinslayer 2 роки тому +3

    baby Shark hit 11B views already.

  • @flamingbrutter
    @flamingbrutter 2 роки тому

    a baby shark power tower sounds terrifying

  • @1Hersheys_Roblox1
    @1Hersheys_Roblox1 2 роки тому +4

    2:46 OMG CARY YOU WATCH NILERED TOO????

  • @arisandra
    @arisandra 2 роки тому

    The Keaton ellis subtle twitch plug caught me very off guard

  • @troliskimosko
    @troliskimosko 2 роки тому +4

    0:38 Wait till he hears about arrow notation