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The belief ledger

“Renaming a video resets its testing cycle.”

inconclusive

the sample is too thin to read

Held 42 days · Never changed on record

inconclusive on 4 of 5 pooled public channels

What the check does

For videos with a title change, compare daily views/impressions/CTR for the 7 days before vs 7 days after the change. Agrees if median ratio drops below 0.5 then recovers above 1.0 within 14 days.

The reading

0.20

Checked on 10 videos ·

How the verdict has moved

  1. Sep 29, 2026 – Oct 22, 2026inconclusive
  2. Sep 11, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026inconclusive

Where the belief comes from

Common YouTube growth-channel advice.

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.