“YouTube ranks by session length, not per-video metrics.”
inconclusive
the sample is too thin to read
Held 42 days · Never changed on recordinconclusive on 4 of 5 pooled public channels
What the check does
Across the shared pool, on a stand-in: a session spans videos and often channels, and nothing shared here can see one. The stand-in is the minutes a typical view spends watching — each video's length times how far its audience watched, weighted by first-week views — set against the channel's recent view growth (its last 28 covered days over the 28 before them). Pearson correlation across channels; agrees at r >= 0.3, disagrees at r <= -0.3. Confidence stays low at every pool size: this stands in for session length, it does not measure it.
The reading
Checked on 6 channels ·
How the verdict has moved
First checked Sep 11, 2026; the verdict has not moved since.
Where the belief comes from
Session-watch folklore (post-2018 algorithm framing).
Checked against
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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.