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The night I the colour grade pass

Experiment #158 · closed · published 6/29/2026, 8:16:00 AM

What happened

Creative features

  • hookTypestory_cold_open
  • lengthBucket4_10m
  • thumbnailArchetypebefore_after
  • publishSlotweekday_am
  • formatinterview
  • topicCluster2

Confounds the baseline knew

  • Followers at publish24,323
  • Days since previous post0.8
  • Channel age at publish (days)220
  • Local publish time6/29/2026, 8:16:00 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)

104

Baseline expected

160

Residual reward

-0.72σ

raw -0.72σ · residual sd 0.599 log-views

Checkpoints

CheckpointViewsWatch time (min)CommentsLikesFollower delta
168h (close)10415,288050
24h578,408030
72h8312,230040

What changed in the posterior

  • Post missed its baseline by 0.72σ. Moved: topic_cluster:topic_2 -0.030, thumbnail_archetype:before_after -0.030, format:interview -0.025.

    • topic_2-0.153-0.183 Δ-0.030±0.26
    • before_after0.0870.058 Δ-0.030±0.28
    • interview0.2020.177 Δ-0.025±0.25
    • story_cold_open0.2430.218 Δ-0.024±0.25
    • 4_10m-0.059-0.083 Δ-0.024±0.26
    • weekday_am-0.119-0.132 Δ-0.013±0.25
    • topic_1-0.096-0.086 Δ+0.010±0.25
    • 20m_plus-0.111-0.102 Δ+0.009±0.27
    • contrarian-0.028-0.020 Δ+0.009±0.26
    • topic_6-0.300-0.291 Δ+0.008±0.29
    • face_reaction0.0620.069 Δ+0.008±0.25
    • none0.0610.067 Δ+0.007±0.27
    • list-0.019-0.013 Δ+0.006±0.27
    • shorts-0.078-0.072 Δ+0.006±0.26
    • topic_30.2660.272 Δ+0.006±0.26
    • text_dominant0.0650.071 Δ+0.006±0.25
    • demo_first-0.101-0.095 Δ+0.006±0.25
    • weekend_pm0.1510.156 Δ+0.005±0.27
    • question0.1220.127 Δ+0.005±0.27
    • tutorial-0.010-0.005 Δ+0.005±0.25
    • weekday_pm-0.052-0.047 Δ+0.005±0.24
    • commentary-0.046-0.041 Δ+0.004±0.26
    • 10_20m0.0500.054 Δ+0.004±0.25
    • object_hero-0.280-0.276 Δ+0.004±0.26
    • 1_4m0.0440.047 Δ+0.004±0.25
    • topic_40.1660.170 Δ+0.003±0.25
    • weekend_am0.1250.122 Δ-0.003±0.28
    • topic_5-0.061-0.064 Δ-0.003±0.28
    • claim-0.149-0.151 Δ-0.002±0.25
    • vlog-0.055-0.058 Δ-0.002±0.26
    • under_60s0.0710.073 Δ+0.002±0.26
    • number_list-0.092-0.090 Δ+0.002±0.25
    • topic_70.2030.202 Δ-0.001±0.27
    • topic_0-0.031-0.031 Δ+0.001±0.25
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