Evidence against “longer wait times means less views on episodes”. Some people use the “10 month wait time” excuse to say that episode 80 not getting as much views is fair and justified. Other people say views were always declining even before episode 80 and well into the Astro arc etc. But I found that this isn’t exactly the truth. Overall channel views only declined due to less episodes but views per episode were not just constantly declining and in fact the episodes between 79 part 3 and 79 part 1 in fact got just as much as if not more views then other older episodes. For these measurements I looked at some 6 episode periods from before. Many of them were still on level, lower or slightly above these episodes in views but you also have to consider that 77 part 3 to 79 part 1 are significantly newer episodes and the ones I’m comparing against are older then it and even still tbe newer episodes effectively equal the views. I took the mean view counts of several 6 episode periods. Here is the averages I managed to collate. 77 Part 3 to 79 Part 1 (8 and a half months) = average of 54.17 million views 75 to 77 part 2 (2 months and 6 days) = average of 36 million views 71 to 73 part 1 (1 month and 24 days) = 54.83 million views 67 Part 3 to 68 (full episode) (2 months) = 57.83 million views You can notice I put a month counter on each one. This is the months between the upload of the first given episode of each given period and the last episode of each given periods upload date. You will notice all of these are 6 upload periods and yet 77 part 3 to 79 part 1 took 3x as much as the rest for it to all come out and are also newer and yet it has significantly higher views then the 6 uploads before it (75-77 part 2) despite it taking 2x as long to upload. It even compared literally identically with 71 to 73 part 1 which took less then 2 months for that 6 upload period to come out. In fact I even compared it to basically some long form episodes in the prime of the series. Granted most episodes in this period do get significantly more views with some over 100 million but even in this period between 67 part 3 - 68 (full episode), the view average is only 3 million higher then the recent episodes. Of course this doesn’t include short views which were higher back then but it is still insane that years later after the hype died down many episodes still reached more views then some of the episodes in prime skibidi toilet. What does this show? It shows the times between each upload does NOT necessarily mean less views. In fact 78 had the second longest wait time between uploads and that got the 2nd most views out of any episode in the Astro arc only behind 74. Season 25 took close to 2 months from 77 full episode to come out and was taken down for months right at the start of it being uploaded and still its at 55 million views which is about the average of 71-73 part 1 in views. Episode 77 ( full episode ) was also down for about 2-3 months and despite the algorithmic hit that would cause it’s at 61 million views now beating out many older episodes. More in the thread below ⬇️