The other thing I'll say about that article is that it was entirely underwhelming considering it took them months to put together. Almost everything in the article has already been reported and it was
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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