A lot of people learn early on that certain emotions get treated as weak. Show embarrassment, show fear, and you get laughed at or picked on for it. So the brain figures out a workaround pretty fast:
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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