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The night I the colour grade pass

Experiment #130 · closed · published 5/21/2026, 7:00:00 AM

What happened

Creative features

  • hookTypestory_cold_open
  • lengthBucket20m_plus
  • thumbnailArchetypenone
  • publishSlotweekday_am
  • formattutorial
  • topicCluster2

Confounds the baseline knew

  • Followers at publish21,454
  • Days since previous post0.8
  • Channel age at publish (days)181
  • Local publish time5/21/2026, 7:00:00 AM

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)

55

Baseline expected

111

Residual reward

-1.18σ

raw -1.18σ · residual sd 0.599 log-views

Checkpoints

CheckpointViewsWatch time (min)CommentsLikesFollower delta
168h (close)5528,875030
24h3015,881020
72h4423,100020

What changed in the posterior

  • Post missed its baseline by 1.18σ. Moved: length_bucket:20m_plus -0.052, thumbnail_archetype:none -0.049, topic_cluster:topic_2 -0.044.

    • 20m_plus0.0560.004 Δ-0.052±0.28
    • none0.0790.029 Δ-0.049±0.28
    • topic_2-0.109-0.152 Δ-0.044±0.27
    • story_cold_open0.1670.128 Δ-0.039±0.26
    • weekday_am-0.104-0.134 Δ-0.030±0.26
    • tutorial0.0550.026 Δ-0.029±0.25
    • contrarian-0.069-0.050 Δ+0.019±0.28
    • before_after0.1490.166 Δ+0.017±0.30
    • 4_10m-0.228-0.213 Δ+0.016±0.27
    • weekday_late-0.282-0.267 Δ+0.015±0.29
    • topic_0-0.065-0.051 Δ+0.014±0.27
    • 10_20m0.0480.062 Δ+0.014±0.26
    • topic_6-0.529-0.516 Δ+0.012±0.32
    • question0.0810.091 Δ+0.010±0.28
    • topic_1-0.049-0.040 Δ+0.009±0.26
    • text_dominant0.0440.053 Δ+0.009±0.26
    • topic_30.2750.284 Δ+0.009±0.27
    • weekday_pm-0.076-0.067 Δ+0.008±0.25
    • 1_4m-0.0070.001 Δ+0.008±0.26
    • object_hero-0.330-0.323 Δ+0.008±0.27
    • vlog-0.134-0.126 Δ+0.007±0.27
    • shorts0.1550.162 Δ+0.007±0.27
    • face_reaction0.0630.069 Δ+0.006±0.26
    • interview0.1440.150 Δ+0.006±0.26
    • under_60s0.1360.141 Δ+0.006±0.27
    • topic_50.1040.100 Δ-0.004±0.30
    • topic_70.2060.202 Δ-0.004±0.29
    • demo_first-0.037-0.040 Δ-0.003±0.26
    • number_list-0.093-0.090 Δ+0.003±0.26
    • weekend_am0.1200.118 Δ-0.002±0.30
    • topic_40.1710.170 Δ-0.002±0.27
    • commentary-0.179-0.181 Δ-0.002±0.28
    • claim-0.046-0.045 Δ+0.001±0.28
    • list-0.037-0.036 Δ+0.001±0.28
    • weekend_pm0.3460.347 Δ+0.001±0.28
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