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Compared how two gossip channels covered the same scandal and one got it SO wrong
The whole Brianna K. thing last week, I watched two YouTube channels break it down. Channel A waited 48 hours, showed the receipts, talked to actual sources. Channel B posted within an hour with just screenshots and a wild guess. Channel A got 40k views, Channel B got 400k. And guess what, Channel B is already backtracking and deleting comments because their timeline was completely off. People are so desperate for the first video they'll eat garbage. Has anyone else noticed the channels that rush get worse engagement in the long run?
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hernandez.finley10d ago
I saw the same thing with the Colleen Ballinger stuff back in 2023. This one channel posted a 10 minute video the same day with no real info, just old tweets stitched together, and it hit like 2 million views. Then two weeks later a smaller channel dropped a 45 minute deep dive with actual screenshots and emails and it barely cracked 80k. But here's the thing, that small channel is still around and growing while the fast one got hit with a copyright strike and fell off. Slow channels build trust so people come back, the rush ones burn out once the drama dies.
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