The history of the most viewed YouTube videos, converted into sound (2019 re-upload)
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- Опубліковано 1 кві 2019
- Original upload date: Aug 20, 2017.
Behind-the-scenes video (6 hours of me coding): • Behind the Scenes of C...
As it says in the intro:
A few months ago, this entire channel was demonetized for "reusing content". All the videos on this channel are original data visualizations created with code I've written myself, so I wasn't sure what the cause of this was at first. After some investigation, I realized the problem might be my "UA-cam choir" video. In this video, I played 5-sec chunks of popular music videos to demonstrate how I could pitch-bend them to the frequency at which they got views. I believe this is fair use, but I don't want to contest it and risk more punishment.
Now, I would like to get this channel re-monetized. I don't care about the money, but I do know UA-cam suppresses the spread of demonetized videos since they can't make money off of them. I do care about that, because if I make a video with a message about measles, I'd like as many people to see it as possible.
So, I'm reuploading this video with the problematic sections removed. It was the most popular video on this channel, so it's unfortunate that the views, comments, etc. all start at zero again. However, it's much better to kill one video to save the channel. So here is the reupload!
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Why did I choose the videos that I did? Well, the original plan was to include only videos that have reached #1 at some point in time, which is mostly music videos. Including other music videos that haven't gotten to #1 (like Hello, Sorry, Uptown Funk, etc.) isn't such a good idea. Since they constantly get views, we'd quickly get clouded with dozens of voices singing at once, which'll turn into a muffled mess. That's why flash-in-the-pan viral videos are so great - they add interesting events to the video, but don't cloud up the audio space for more than a few seconds! My other criterion was a little subjective: it had to get enough views to reach a comfortable pitch (about 2M views a day), but it also had to be considered part of "UA-cam culture", like the ALS ice bucket challenge certainly was. So I didn't include Adele's carpool karaoke since that seems more like traditional TV.
There is very little data from before mid-2009, so that's why I didn't go back that far.
To get the majority of the data, I used inspect element to find the coordinates of the vertices of the "daily views" graph underneath each video, and converted those coordinates into views.
For the videos whose stats were private, I could usually look up the SocialBlade stats of the channel that uploaded the video. If the main video accounted for over 75% of the views, I could somewhat safely just assume that that fraction stayed about constant over time. So I just multiplied the channel's total upload views by that fraction, and voila.
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For videos that were older than SocialBlade itself, I used this Wikipedia article (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...) for some historical data, and then interpolated between those given data points. To be extra fancy, I didn't just linearly interpolate. Instead, I looked at the Google Trends (which goes back to 2004, before UA-cam) for that video title, and assumed that the number of searches was somewhat proportional to views received on that day, and interpolated using that. All that work probably wasn't worth it, though, because if you look at the two oldest videos (Evolution of Dance and Charlie Bit My finger) their view-graph lines still look pretty close to linear to me.
Music:
Almost Original (Instrumental) by Joakim Karud / joakimkarud
Music provided by Audio Library • Almost Original (Instr...
See You Again: "Am I #1?
Despacito: "Well yes, but actually no."
Yesn't.
@@xfi6658 n o r m o detected
Despashito
@@skmalaujitra9580 Yen't I'nt
WELL, UH, TECHNICALLY, UH.. NAH
I love the little boost every time Christmas comes along to "All I Want for Christmas is You"
Ikr
Just like UA-cam (Channel)‘s subscriber count and view count during a UA-cam rewind
weird thing: filipinos play christmas songs and put on christmas lights from september
It's a shame about what UA-cam did to you. Because all the comments are gone, I'll leave the same comment here as last time in the interest of posterity:
neat
neat
neat
neat
neat
beat
All I want for Christmas is you always spikes up in December LOL
I assume so
Copying comments for a reupload, pathetic.
since when did people get mad for “copying comments”
No shit.
Heads Hot nice comment forget the haters
now Despacito has 6.1B views.. that's 80% of the world's population.
*Insane..*
I mean people obviously rewatched it but yeah sure
people who aren't signed in counts as a view too and they have rewatched it
I hope you realise that that includes rewatches and alt accounts, because the Internet population is only 4 billion.
There's no way 6 billion distinct persons have viewed it
R/woosh all of the replies
Hell, welcome to hell
As soon as See You Again got #1 Despacito was like "HOL UP LEMME JUST STEP RIGHT IN"
4:04
WEEEWEEEWEEEWEEEWEEEWWEWWWEEEEEEWWWEWWWEWWWEEEEWEWWW
See You Again: *gets 1#*
Despacito, Luis Fonsi and Views: *Allow us to introduce ourselves.*
I still wanna hear a full outro:(
Me too!!!
Wait... It isn't a full song?
*_Depression ensues_*
YES
oh yeah WE NEED IT
outro? Kkkk
If you listen to the sawtooth waves, you sort of hear an up and down pulsing with them constantly. This is because more people watch at the weekend therefore you get the constant pulsing!
Not my comment, just want to let you know that this was one of the old top comments. I am unable to give the original channel the credit due but wanted to let you know nevertheless.
Cool fact though!
You accepting that the comment wasn't original made my day. We need more people like you.
@@ignaciogonzalez7904 just trying to do a service for an iconic video that had a lot of history.
If the original commenter appears here I'll either delete my comment or give actual credit in the comment itself.
comment thief
@@SurvivingAnotherDay Damn, sorry for not declaring I had stole it.
@@SurvivingAnotherDay Did you read all of his comment?
press F to pay respects of charlie bit my finger...
the last youtube video on this list what isnt any music video
1:04 THE NOSTALGIA PHYSICALLY HURTS! I NEED TO WATCH THIS SERIES AGAIN
BFDI
I cant believe its his brother lol
@@joeysingsforyou388 Cary originally made this, so he means that Michael sang it.
*Going to still watch, even if it is a reupload :)*
4:04
@@69Cil 404 error
Gangnamstyle: I have most views in the world
See you again: hold my beer
Despacito: hold my cocktail
Bad romance: I has the most views
Baby: hold my beer
Gangnam style: hold my vodka
See you again: hold my vine
Despacito: hold all my drinks
Mr Snobek
Pewds : Bitches, hold mah lasagnas; you’re not involved in MY specific contest for the most viewed video on UA-cam (get it ?)
@@nicholasleclerc1583 ye
You mean: *"Sujeta mi cocktail"*
Rick Astley with his Rick rolling, hold my bar
2017: I wonder when Despacito's view count will overtake the world population?
2022: Well, I'll be damned. Baby Shark got there first.
1:03 as a bfdi fan, that made my heart stop.
Same
whats bfdi?
Same
@@cauapereira1019 An object show
@@cauapereira1019 It means Battle for Dream Island
0:38 Set the speed to 0.5 or anything else that isn't "Normal" speed, listen to it.
that's the algorithm figuring out the difference between pitch and actual pulses in a sawtooth wave. These interesting workarounds only exist to the algorithms which change speed without affecting pitch (therefore adding extra wave cycles to fill in the time assuming that the priority is the pitch, not the cycle itself). When changing speed while changing the pitch, the cycles remain exactly the same, they just run slower (or faster).
Square wave
3:57 When that one kid doesn't get the toy he wants in the Kroger's toy aisle.
See You Again: *becomes the most viewed video on UA-cam*
Despacito: Lemme stop you right there
3:24 never thought "see you again" featured singing puppies
Cary, I just want to say that you inspire me to no end. Keep being the amazing human you are!
1:03
BFDI
I flipping loved that series!
I'm impressed of how well edited this video is. Keep up the good work!
3:34 this is me trying to sing
3:57 is me
0:39 When you do an akwardly loud fart
See you again: Become's #1
Despacito: i'm gonna end this man's whole career
We'll never see it again.
Slowly in Spanish is Despacito
But grows so fast on views...
-Slowly- faster
*ironic.*
I will continue to come back to this channel forever, keep making vids.
3:57
Despacito:excuse me coming through i got to be here first please
rip i really wanted a 2019 updated verison thansk for the reupload tho
3:56
Nobody:
Despacito: *EEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
lmfao
14
I love how "All I Want For Christmas Is You" gets that high pitch sound every December
tf are you doing here
I love the way ‘all I want for Christmas is you’ worked, every Christmas it would have a spike in views. It took me a while to realise but it was fascinating when I did
I don’t know why this is in my recommended, but it was nice
Me during the video: This sounds cursed as hell, I hate it
Me in the end of the video: It can't be done anymore? It was great :(
This is a competition to who screams louder
Worth subscribing!
edit: rest in peace the style of old videos
Ye, making the statistics and data private, but keep demonetizing channels. Great job, UA-cam!
Push this comment to the top
God I love that outro music
Me too
Where can I find the full version?
A new chapter by KroWWorK
Well good thing you chose to reupload this hehe, also there is a comment on evolution of dance that has some info for the most viewed vids after its reign
I like how Friday disappeared because it was such a disappointment.
2017: Gangnam Style vs See You Again - BATTLE FOR #1 MOST VIEWED
Despacito: Hold my beer.
Hey is there an extended version of your outro anywhere
Me: watches abacaba’s video
Mom: WTF IS THAT SOUND
I love how you can see how all I want for Christmas is you always goes up quite a bit just before january
I like how you can see that "All I want for Christmas" grew almost only at the end of the years. It was also more popular over time, because in 2016 it grew more significantly than in other years. I wonder if in 2017 and 2018 it was even more popular.
idk about youtube but on spotify it broke the most listened song in a day with 10.8m listens wow surpassing xxxtentacions record
And today, it broke the spotify record again with 12m streams last dec 24 2019 and it went number one for the first time. Woah its getting bigger every year
3:57 Then, everything changed when the fire nation attacked...
At first I thought, “Wow! That’s a really unique idea, and it requires some really good editing skills”
And then I heard it.
Me: **Searches up video**
UA-cam: Did you mean: _Demon Summoning Ritual_
Its a sad thing you need to reupload this cause of youtube
Your video is good
And sad all those views gone
May your channel grow
I love watching "All I want for Christmas is You." Get a sudden boost at the end of every year.
I've been waiting for this for soo long
1:26
“We will use this approach for music videos”
“ **For other videos** lets just use sine and sawtooth waves“ *Proceeds to show Rebecca Black - Friday. 😂😂😂
The moment that we seeeee the next slice of cake a step closer to the brought on by cake at steak
Can you make a longer version of the outro music plsss
Yeah i was waiting for this thanks a lot
2:28 HI I'M KONY
0:39 - 0:45 Swedish House Mafia - One! :P
You're finally back!
This should be called
"Mike and Sulley scaring videos to get views out of them.
It'd be interesting to see an updated version after Baby Shark is now #1
Each All I want for Christmas spike is bigger than the previous one. That includes the 2 Decembers after this video
I’m still upset that UA-cam removed the video statistics. I was going to do so much with it and now I just have a folder of useless R scripts :(
friday song is from 2011?
whoa wtf such a long time ago alrdy
See you again: **becomes #1**
Despacito: _”Imma ruin this man’s whole career”_
how did you animate the line graph? I'd love to be able to visualize data like this
I really enjoyed this, I hope you get monetised again!
notice how All I Want For Christmas always goes up by a bit between november and january
0:57 did he just rickroll me............ ._.
Wait, you’re one of the creators of BFDI?
I like how every year, ALl i want for christmas picks up earlier and earlier in the year
by 2017, you can hear it audibly increase in AUGUST
like
THAT IS NOT CHIRSTMAS
PLEASE
STOP
I just love how every christmas ' All I Want For Christmas is you ' just flies up lmao
2:09 Friday really be like:
*oaaoaoaAAOaoaohhhgggohggiohhgiohhgiohhgio*
Your brother sang the cake at stake intro from BFDI?
sounds like there is an alien inside my washer
I like the explanation more this time! Question: Why do the songs constantly go ooOOooOOooOOooOOoooOOOoooOOOoooOOOooOOooOOoo???
I just commented the answer to this haha I'll just copy any paste it here for you :)
If you listen to the sawtooth waves, you sort of hear an up and down pulsing with them constantly. This is because more people watch at the weekend therefore you get the constant pulsing!
Not my comment, just want to let you know that this was one of the old top comments. I am unable to give the original channel the credit due but wanted to let you know nevertheless.
Cool fact though!
Everyone: oMg Gangnam Style hAs a LoT OF vIEwS11!1
Despacito: *hold my beer*
Do this again, but with most subscribed channels!
Hearing that satisfying crackle during December as people listen to All I Want For Christmas Is You is so good for some reason
This is ridiculously fascinating.
Wait dude your the brother of the dude who sang the cake at stake song from battle for dream island? (BFDI)
See you again : I'm #1!
Despacito : I guess " See you again "
Never thought I would see another video
You can see all I want for Christmas sky rocket in views everytime Christmas would roll around
1:47 videos:WOAHAOAHOAHOHAOHAOHAOHAOHA
4:02
See You Again: “YES! IM ABOUT TO PASS GANGNAM STYLE!!! IM SO HAPPY!”
Gangnam Style: Its been a fun few years. Good job See You Again.
Despacito: (flips off both videos)
See you again was #1 for about a week actually
No it was 3 weeks
From mid july to early august
Anyone thought this was an updated version?
Feel free to use the soundtrack of this video for horror games with strong winds.
3:56
Despacito: im speed
The sounds remembered me the dentist🤣😷
I love all the bumps for all I want for Christmas is you during Christmastime
Discord Lootboxes will be a straight vertical line 💀
_See You Again is on the rise_
"And I'll tell you all about it when I see you again"
_See You Again overtakes Gangnam Style_
"When I see you agaiiiiin"
*_Despacito yeets right past See You Again_* *WOOOO OOOO OOOOOOOOOOAH*
This reminds me of carykh
Wait-
I am wondering why Despacito slowed down in February 2017
The song was released in January 2017 but was popular in June
I wheezed when I saw you put Friday in the “other videos” category
2:35 When you stub your toe
I am happy that none of this is T-Series.
"The points are gone, we are free of them now, but we look ooooooooooOOOoooOOOoooOOO..."
HOW DO U MAKE THIS TYPE OF VIDEOS? PLEASE TELL ME, I REALLY NEED TO KNOW! PLS! I CAN'T FIND ANY TUTORIAL ON ENTIRE UA-cam!!! PLEASE
2:34 gangman style is like: "excuse me guys"
yes, i commented this on the last video and got a lot of likes so i am commenting this again to get those likes back
have a nice day :)
See You Again: Ha!!! I’m Gonna Be No.1
Despacito: Hold My Beer.