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The night I the colour grade pass

Experiment #104 · closed · published 4/14/2026, 5:40:00 PM

What happened

Creative features

  • hookTypestory_cold_open
  • lengthBucket10_20m
  • thumbnailArchetypetext_dominant
  • publishSlotweekday_pm
  • formattutorial
  • topicCluster0

Confounds the baseline knew

  • Followers at publish19,076
  • Days since previous post0.3
  • Channel age at publish (days)144
  • Local publish time4/14/2026, 5:40:00 PM

The residual reward

Raw views mostly measure how big the channel already was. The baseline predicts what this channel “should” have earned given the confounds above; the residual is how the post actually landed relative to that prediction — measured in standard deviations.

Observed (168h)

151

Baseline expected

108

Residual reward

+0.55σ

raw 0.55σ · residual sd 0.599 log-views

Checkpoints

CheckpointViewsWatch time (min)CommentsLikesFollower delta
168h (close)15147,565180
24h8326,161040
72h12138,052060

What changed in the posterior

  • Post beat its baseline by 0.55σ. Moved: hook_type:story_cold_open +0.017, format:tutorial +0.017, length_bucket:10_20m +0.016.

    • story_cold_open0.2550.271 Δ+0.017±0.29
    • tutorial0.0090.025 Δ+0.017±0.27
    • 10_20m-0.053-0.037 Δ+0.016±0.27
    • topic_0-0.119-0.104 Δ+0.015±0.28
    • weekday_pm-0.105-0.091 Δ+0.015±0.26
    • text_dominant0.0990.111 Δ+0.012±0.27
    • weekend_pm0.3620.351 Δ-0.011±0.29
    • shorts0.1370.126 Δ-0.010±0.29
    • under_60s0.2020.193 Δ-0.009±0.29
    • face_reaction0.1240.116 Δ-0.008±0.27
    • topic_6-0.454-0.462 Δ-0.008±0.34
    • vlog-0.132-0.138 Δ-0.006±0.29
    • weekday_am-0.100-0.106 Δ-0.006±0.28
    • 20m_plus0.1080.103 Δ-0.005±0.30
    • demo_first-0.097-0.103 Δ-0.005±0.28
    • claim-0.060-0.065 Δ-0.005±0.29
    • before_after0.1050.100 Δ-0.005±0.31
    • number_list-0.274-0.279 Δ-0.004±0.28
    • none0.0420.038 Δ-0.004±0.29
    • topic_1-0.025-0.028 Δ-0.003±0.28
    • topic_2-0.157-0.160 Δ-0.003±0.28
    • object_hero-0.395-0.393 Δ+0.003±0.29
    • 1_4m-0.001-0.003 Δ-0.002±0.27
    • topic_5-0.061-0.063 Δ-0.002±0.32
    • topic_40.2310.229 Δ-0.002±0.28
    • question0.1550.153 Δ-0.002±0.29
    • contrarian-0.003-0.006 Δ-0.002±0.29
    • list-0.037-0.039 Δ-0.002±0.31
    • topic_30.3600.362 Δ+0.002±0.31
    • 4_10m-0.283-0.285 Δ-0.002±0.29
    • topic_70.1980.198 Δ-0.001±0.33
    • interview0.1320.132 Δ-0.001±0.28
    • weekend_am0.0890.088 Δ-0.001±0.31
    • commentary-0.134-0.135 Δ-0.001±0.29
    • weekday_late-0.271-0.271 Δ+0.000±0.29
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