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Chasing My Crush Around the Globe

And so this is interesting. What you're saying is because I've just recently started to get back on YouTube, right? And it's not what it used to be. Like, it's a different game now, right? And like, I've been talking to a lot of YouTubers and like, a thing that's popular now that I never had back in the day. Well, okay, so a lot of the YouTubers now that are, that are crushing it, like your Beasts, your Arax, your Ryan Traehans, are very like analytically focused. So like they'll go into their analytics Like, I wouldn't go into my analytics for fucking anything ever. I didn't know how to access it. I didn't want to see it. I never cared. Like, I don't care what my fucking retention rate is. I thought that was like a pathetic— like, I was just like, who wants to see this? But they're so good at measuring everything. Like, Jimmy pays— Jimmy pays a guy like half a million dollars a year just to make him thumbnails. So on YouTube, when you post a video, it'll show you your last 10 videos, and then it'll go, this video is a 1 out of 10. So 1 out of 10 means out of the last 10 videos, this is performing the best. And I bring this all up because John was with me and John started to fall in love with what they were saying because John is like a very data-driven guy. So John was like, this is so cool.

August 19, 202520:33Jason
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Natalie20:19
You know what would be fun for you, Jon?
Jason20:21
What's up?
Natalie20:21
This is what I think. You're really good with, like, analytical stuff, like algorithms and things like that. Like, you're passionate about that, right? You should infuse that into, like, David's Instagram and his TikTok.
Jason20:33
And so this is interesting. What you're saying is because I've just recently started to get back on YouTube, right? And it's not what it used to be. Like, it's a different game now, right? And like, I've been talking to a lot of YouTubers and like, a thing that's popular now that I never had back in the day. Well, okay, so a lot of the YouTubers now that are, that are crushing it, like your Beast…
David21:46
Like, this is YouTube.
Jason21:47
Is it just like making funny stuff or whatever? Like there's like data to back all this up and I could like study this. So they were telling me how important the thumbnail is where they'll have videos that are 10 out of 10s and then they'll change the thumbna…
David22:12
Wow.