You know you're going the right way when everyone else copies you, does the same thing as you, might claim that as their own work, but you know where it came from. Instead of taking it as an attack,
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—Views / houraverage velocity since it published
—Peak velocitythe hottest sustained views/hr it ever hit
—vs. their normalpace relative to this creator's own baseline
—Engagementlikes per view — real engagement is hard to fake
—Agehow early Slope caught this surge