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Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social · 2d

the format is NOT getting repetitive. You shut your mouth.

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Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social · 3d

Time for a 39 minute video about Michael’s house

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Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social · 4d

Sorbet?

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Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social · 4d

Open loops = questions you’ll answer (“Why aren’t these trees alive if there’s water?”).
Meta promises = process guarantees (“I’ll map every fork and show where it actually goes.”).

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Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social · 5d

obviously on a micro level you can't always explain, but law of large numbers, etc, you can usually at least start to make associations and build some sort of scaffolding out of the aggregate

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Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social · 5d

well it's because more people clicked on it and watched more of it. So the real puzzle is figuring out why people did that more with this one than others.

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wynonna @vvvynonna.bsky.social · 5d

lemon ginger cayenne shot will revivify you fr

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Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social · 5d

my secret is that i take shots of an extremely unpleasant concoction of ginger and cayenne every 2.5 hours and it locks me back in

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Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social · 5d

thank you for sharing this

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Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social · 5d

I'm actually gonna be the first person to figure it out.

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Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social · 5d

i had a brief moment the other day but aside from that no

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Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social · 5d

best job in the world

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Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social · 5d

and like it's not even close: we had two back-to back-days with almost double our previous all-time-record. Is it just Red Dead? Was it the nice map we made? Was it the inclusion of more historical details than normal?

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Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social · 5d

Is it possible that there are millions more of us out there that just need to see the right video to get on board? What made this video so much more potent? These are the lessons I commit myself to learning so we can expand our community and help foster creative analysis around the world.

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Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social · 5d

You know, I would've thought that I was getting close to tapping out the entire market for video game infrastructure, but our latest video (RDR2 power lines) was not only our best performing video of all time in terms of views, but also gave us our two highest single days of subs ever. (last pic)