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Public channel intelligence
Public aggregate signals for Many A True Nerd.
Videos
5,180
449.02M views
Playlists
234
public indexed series
Video games
1,463
full video index
Runtime
0m
0 videos with duration
Avg duration
0m
mean indexed runtime
Subscribers
560.00K
from YouTube metadata
Coverage rhythm
Showing latest 12 of 14 years
Videos last 30 days
27
recent public uploads
Videos this year
258
calendar-year pace
Avg / active year
370
14 active years
Peak year
2018
706 videos
1a · Upload rhythm
Window
102
uploads
Streak
8d
current
Avg / day
0.85
last 120d
Cell intensity is uploads per UTC day, capped against the channel’s recent high-water mark.
1b · Cadence
Median gap
24h
between uploads
Best streak
94d
upload days
Longest hiatus
20d
no uploads
1c · Cadence
S
M
T
W
T
F
S
1d · Cadence
Jan leads with 504 uploads, +17% above the monthly mean.
Calendar-month averages across indexed history; callouts only use public publish dates.
1e · Coverage speed
21d
median release-to-cover lag
Release-to-cover lag is clamped at day 0 for pre-release coverage.
1f · Coverage speed
Median marker: 21d.
1g · Coverage speed
Release years of covered games, weighted by indexed episode count.
1h · Coverage speed
Fastest cover
day 0
101 Ways to Die
Median lag
21d
1,408 games
Deepest dig
44.2 yrs
Hit Me, covered 2021
Day-one rate
42%
585/1408
Four facts, zero private analytics.
1i · Taste over time
1j · Taste over time
1k · Taste over time
1l · Taste over time
First active years versus latest active years; chips show point movement.
1m · Engagement
Median views
52.2K
half beat this
Likes / 1K
29.4
5180 videos
Comments / 1K
3.2
5180 videos
Sample
5,180
public videos
Medians, not means — one hit can’t flatter these.
1n · Engagement
Mean is 1.7× the median — the long tail at work.
1o · Engagement
Multiplier is views versus the channel median.
1p · Engagement
Likes per 1K views: 17.2 → 55.8.
Yearly median likes per 1K views; no private watch-time data implied.
1q · Series habits
Avg eps
18.9
Longest
1,050
The Many A True Nerd One-Offs
Finished = playlist tagged complete or final-title pattern; one-offs excluded from the rate.
1r · Series habits
230 playlists by episode count — typical range 2–5.
1s · Series habits
Paused = no new episode in 90+ days and not finished.
1t · Series habits
Share of Many A True Nerd series still going at each episode milestone.
1u · Similar creators
Ranked by shared library overlap; embeddings can replace the score when available.
1v · Similar creators · embeddings
Bar = shared library share; cosine is approximated from overlap until embeddings are persisted.
1w · Similar creators · embeddings
Generated from nearest shared games and public library overlap.
1x · Similar creators · embeddings
A compact neighbor postcard; distances are overlap-derived until vector projections are materialized.
Cadence is derived from public publish timestamps; zero days are shown as small stubs.
Weekday and hour bars use UTC publish times from the public index.
Top genres plus Other; rising slices use the same public game assignments as the Games tab.
Rank movement is based on yearly video counts; positive deltas mean a genre climbed.
Mini-bars are videos per active year; Δ is rank places moved since the earliest visible year.
