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The belief ledger

“Comments are weighted more than likes by the algorithm.”

agrees

the belief matches this channel's data

Held 24 days · Last changed Sep 29, 2026 · 1 change

agrees on 1 of 5 pooled public channels · disagrees on 1 · inconclusive on 2

What the check does

For videos with comparable view counts, regress impression-rate-after-day-7 on (comments per view) and (likes per view) separately. Agrees if |β_comments| > 2 × |β_likes|.

The reading

2.8×

Checked on 35 videos ·

How the verdict has moved

  1. Oct 20, 2026 – Oct 22, 2026agrees
  2. Sep 29, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026agrees
  3. Sep 11, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026inconclusive

Where the belief comes from

Various creator coaching.

Checked against

Every figure on this page is checked against @theartharrison’s tracked data, through Oct 22, 2026. The tally above reads 5 pooled public channels’ files.

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The rest of the record

This belief sits in a ledger of fifty, each one re-checked every day. These surfaces carry the rest of it.

Back to the belief ledger

Every belief on record, what changed in the last 90 days, and the verdict words explained.

How the record is made

The path a number takes from YouTube to this page, every condition attached to it, and what the projections have been worth.

Benchmarks

What channels in the shared pool actually run at, and how a video's views build day by day.