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I Lost $9 Million—and I'd Do It Again — first External views (1 view from External links) — Apr 11, 2026, day 3.

I Lost $9 Million—and I'd Do It Again overtook The Shortest Path to What You Want Looks Lazy for lifetime views (41 vs 11) — Apr 11, 2026, day 3.

Channel crossed 100 total views on Apr 12, 2026 (day 4).

It started on Apr 9, 2026, the day The Shortest Path to What You Want Looks Lazy published.

25 videos went up in the first thirty days, and lifetime views across that early batch now sit at 1,238.

The Shortest Path to What You Want Looks Lazy, I Lost $9 Million—and I'd Do It Again, and I Hope You Fail More Often crossed 10 views on Apr 11, 2026.

I Lost $9 Million—and I'd Do It Again and I Hope You Fail More Often crossed 25 views on Apr 11, 2026.

I Lost $9 Million—and I'd Do It Again crossed 50 views on Apr 12, 2026.

I Hope You Fail More Often crossed 50 views on Apr 14, 2026.

Day 7: I Hope You Fail More Often moved from peak into tail. The arc usually follows publish energy first, then a long tail.

Channel crossed 500 total views on Apr 23, 2026 (day 15).

Something shifted in subscribers gained (7-day mean) around 2026-04-18. The before-and-after means look meaningfully different; step changes often follow a routing change, a release, or a publish-cadence shift.

On Apr 19, 2026, multiple videos in the catalog jumped together. Convergence days like this are uncommon; the channel-level signal is often more interesting than any one video's day.

The 3 Skills That Make Success Look Surprisingly Ordinary crossed 25 views on Apr 20, 2026.

Don't Watch This Video: Life Advice for People Who Don’t Trust Life Advice and The 3 Skills That Make Success Look Surprisingly Ordinary crossed 50 views between Apr 20, 2026 and Apr 22, 2026.

When Trying to Change Your Life Makes You Feel Worse, How to Be Yourself Without Being a Jerk—or Holding Yourself Back, and 3 Rules to Succeed Without Needing to Grow Up crossed 10 views between Apr 23, 2026 and Apr 24, 2026.

I Lost $9 Million—and I'd Do It Again's lifecycle stage changed from peak to tail on day 16. The next stretch typically reads quieter than the previous one.

I Lost $9 Million—and I'd Do It Again crossed 250 views on Apr 27, 2026.

After 0 days reading inconclusive, the Weekend-upload penalty verdict flipped on Apr 27, 2026. The new reading: disagrees. Wisdom verdicts can flip more than once on the same channel — the interesting question is whether this flip persists.

The 5-5-5 Rule for Decisions You're Afraid to Make crossed 50 views on May 2, 2026.

Browse / Homepage overtook Suggested Videos in weekly views (68 vs 43 over the trailing 7 days) — May 16, 2026, day 38.

Day 27: The 5-5-5 Rule for Decisions You're Afraid to Make moved from peak into tail. The arc usually follows publish energy first, then a long tail.

Day 28: How to Be Yourself Without Being a Jerk—or Holding Yourself Back moved from peak into tail. The arc usually follows publish energy first, then a long tail.

Optimism and Delusion Both Tell You to Keep Going's lifecycle stage changed from peak to tail on day 28. The next stretch typically reads quieter than the previous one.

Channel crossed 1,000 total views on May 15, 2026 (day 37).

How to Train for Entrepreneurship Before You Start a Business crossed 25 views on May 9, 2026.

When Trying to Change Your Life Makes You Feel Worse crossed 25 views on May 11, 2026.

After 0 days reading disagrees, the Test-then-scale distribution verdict flipped on May 11, 2026. The new reading: inconclusive. Wisdom verdicts can flip more than once on the same channel — the interesting question is whether this flip persists.

Every Founder You Admire Started With a Worse Idea Than Yours, How I Blew a 750,000-User Head Start on Facebook, and How Productivity Tricks You Into Thinking You’ve Tried Everything crossed 10 views between May 12, 2026 and May 16, 2026.

May 12, 2026 read as a convergence day: 3 videos each lifted at the same time. Patterns of this shape typically suggest a shared off-channel signal rather than a per-video event.

Why Advice That Sounds Smart Can Keep You Average, 3 Quiet Signs You’re Built to Start Something of Your Own, Your Pitch Is Honest. Why Does It Sound Like a Scam?, and 1 more crossed 10 views between May 18, 2026 and May 22, 2026.

4 Questions to Answer Before You Go All In on a Business Idea's lifecycle stage changed from quiet to tail on day 40. The next stretch typically reads quieter than the previous one.

Your Pitch Is Honest. Why Does It Sound Like a Scam? and Every Founder You Admire Started With a Worse Idea Than Yours crossed 25 views between May 21, 2026 and May 24, 2026.

3 Quiet Signs You’re Built to Start Something of Your Own shifted from peak to tail on day 44. Transitions like this are often part of the natural arc; a video tends to peak, then tail.

Suggested Videos overtook Browse / Homepage in weekly views (22 vs 2 over the trailing 7 days) — Jun 8, 2026, day 61.

How Productivity Tricks You Into Thinking You’ve Tried Everything crossed 25 views on May 26, 2026.

Weekend-upload penalty held for 0 days. Then on May 26, 2026 the verdict turned over. The channel's data crossed the threshold and the belief now reads disagrees here.

How Productivity Tricks You Into Thinking You’ve Tried Everything's view count picked up again on day 49 after roughly 2 quiet days. A re-emergence may stay or recede; the next two weeks usually tell.

On 2026-05-29, daily views (7-day mean) moved to a new baseline. Step shifts tend to read clearly only after a few weeks; the before and after rarely return to the same channel.

When Does Encouragement Become Toxic Positivity? and Why You Keep Waiting Even When No One Is Coming crossed 10 views between Jun 8, 2026 and Jun 14, 2026.

When Does Encouragement Become Toxic Positivity? crossed 25 views on Jun 8, 2026.

Jun 11, 2026: the New-upload impression theft verdict moved from disagrees to agrees. The threshold's near; small samples flip easily. Worth watching whether the flip survives the next month.

On day 65, How to Be Interesting When Your Life Looks Boring was still drawing impressions without the views to match. Shown often, watched rarely — the gap between the two is the whole of what the day shows.

Why Being Busy Is Easier Than Doing What Matters, Can One Story Win Your Attention and Lose Your Trust?, and The Procrastination That Looks Like Discipline crossed 10 views between Jun 15, 2026 and Jun 21, 2026.

How the Rules of Success Became a Trap crossed 10 views on Jun 23, 2026.

Why You Keep Waiting Even When No One Is Coming crossed 25 views on Jun 24, 2026.

Jun 26, 2026: the Falling channel-page share verdict moved from agrees to inconclusive. The threshold's near; small samples flip easily. Worth watching whether the flip survives the next month.

How to Be Interesting When Your Life Looks Boring crossed 10 views on Jul 1, 2026.

The channel was quiet through this stretch — no publishes, no milestones, no first-time discovery shifts.

Day 86: How to Be Interesting When Your Life Looks Boring moved from peak into tail. The arc usually follows publish energy first, then a long tail.

What Rejection Can Tell You That People Won’t stopped being shown on day 89 — about 8 days of impressions reached zero. Older videos go dormant when YouTube's surfaces stop recommending them; the catalog still carries the views it earned.

On day 89, Romania reached 5% of the trailing-week share (about 5% of the trailing 7-day window). Whether the share holds or drifts tends to read more clearly over the following month.

On day 100, Norway accounted for at least 5% of I Lost $9 Million—and I'd Do It Again's last seven days of views (about 25% of the trailing 7-day window). Per-video country shifts typically run smaller than channel-level ones; sustained crossings tend to outline a real reach pocket.

Jul 17, 2026: the Comments over likes verdict moved from inconclusive to agrees. The threshold's near; small samples flip easily. Worth watching whether the flip survives the next month.

Day 104: How to Be Interesting When Your Life Looks Boring moved from quiet into tail. The arc usually follows publish energy first, then a long tail.

On day 105, the subscriber count crossed 15. The channel keeps accruing days; the sub count keeps painting alongside it.

Through Jul 25, 2026, the catalog holds 36 videos with 1,457 views, and 18 subscribers along for it. The record keeps going from here.