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Cinematic Edits & Slowed Nights
ComedyGamingFinance
The feed opens on feeling. Slowed love songs on loop, Pride and Prejudice edits and The Notebook on repeat, while the very first finance documentaries start creeping in at the edges.
A YOUTUBE WATCH-HISTORY JOURNEY
33,651 videos.
Two and a half years.
Where my attention actually went, from JAN 2024 to JUN 2026.
By the numbers
What 33,651 videos add up to.
0
Videos opened
0.0
Watched 2+ min/day†
0
Unique videos
0
Channels
≈0
Hours watched†
Opened vs. watched
Median 38s between playsYouTube logs every video that starts — so the 33,651 above include Shorts swiped past in a second, autoplay, and quick bounces. Going by the gap to the next play, only ~30% ran two or more minutes before the next one.
36.6%
33.7%
29.8%
Swiped past12,310 videos · under 30s — Shorts, autoplay, bounces
Sampled11,325 videos · 30 seconds to 2 minutes
Watched 2+ min10,016 videos · 2+ min before the next play
How this is measured: the gap until your next play — YouTube’s export has no real watch-time, so this split is inferred, not recorded.
When I watch
Peak 11 PMWatches by hour of day — a committed night owl.
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What I watch
Top topics across 11,699 channels.
Gaming
7%
Comedy
6.3%
Finance
6.2%
Sports
5.7%
Self-Improvement
4.4%
Tech
3.2%
Fitness
3.1%
Film & TV
2.3%
The rhythm
Busiest November 2024Videos per month — the climb to the 2024 peak, then the long taper.
202420252026
543 videos
in one day — November 25, 2024
Big A
most-watched channel — 781 videos
~96 min/day
estimated time in front of YouTube†
† “Watched per day” and “hours watched” are estimated from the time between consecutive plays — a video followed within seconds by the next wasn’t really watched. Everything else is exact, drawn from 33,651 plays across 892 days (850 active).