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I Kind of Hope You Fail

Published Apr 10, 202610:00 long60 days tracked

This #6 video by views — quiet for now, a steady anchor for the channel.

0Views, last 7 daysthis video's last 7 days
I Kind of Hope You Fail
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15% of this video’s views landed from day seven onward.

Watch time above this channel's middle; click rate below it.

Catalog role

channel anchor

quiet

Lifetime views

68

Ranked #6 by views on this channel.

After week one

15%

Share of this video's views that arrived after its first week.

Main source

Suggested Videos

Has not crossed 100 views yet.

Role

Anchor

Sustained high performer relative to this channel.

Phase

Quiet

quiet stage

Source fit

Mixed

Top: Suggested Videos

Per-video timeline of publish, milestones, era changes, and stage transitions for I Kind of Hope You Fail · through Jun 11, 2026

Day 0 — Apr 10, 2026Today — Jun 11, 202662 days

Trajectory cone

At Day 62, fewer than five other videos on this channel have reached this age — too small a window to compare honestly yet. This fills in once five other videos reach this age.

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The shaded band is the range of daily views other videos on this channel had at each day after publishing — wider band, more spread. The dashed line is the middle of the pack. Per-day views, not cumulative.

At day 30, this video’s cumulative-views curve sat closest to You Don't Have to Grow Up to Get Rich at the same age. You Don't Have to Grow Up to Get Rich has since reached 14 views by day 49. Comparison drew on 23 videos on this channel that reached day 30.

Shape-similar, not outcome-identical — worth noting as context, not as a forecast.

Rank

68

lifetime views

No. 6 of 30 by views

Out of 30 videos on this channel, this one sits at #6 by lifetime views. It was the 2nd published.

Shown

Times YouTube showed this video's thumbnail.

421

Of these 421 impressions, 18 didn't break out by source — usually impressions YouTube didn't convert to a view.

Click Rate

Of everyone who saw the thumbnail, what % clicked it.

1.4%

Avg Watch Time

How long the average viewer watches before leaving.

3:08

31% of video watched

Engagement

(Likes + comments + shares) ÷ views.

5.9%

4 likes

Subscribers

How many viewers subscribed after watching this video.

+2

29.4 per 1K views

Watch per Show

Average minutes watched per time the thumbnail is shown.

0.51 min

Early signal

D3D7Now
Views465868
Shown234234421
Click rate1.3%1.3%1.4%
Avg watch3:142:573:08

Cumulative numbers at each milestone. Day 3 and Day 7 add once the video reaches them; the 62-day-old “Now” column is the running total.

The arc

Cumulative views over 62 days: 68 total. Channel p25–p75 band shown behind the curve. Daily mix from 5 traffic sources shown underneath.Day 1Day 7Day 30Day 0Day 7Day 14Day 30Day 60Day 625410916321768total views
this videochannel medianchannel typical rangetraffic:Suggested VideosBrowse / HomepageChannel PageDirect / UnknownPlaylist

Cumulative views above, this channel's typical range for videos of this age as the shaded band, and the day-by-day traffic mix stacked below.

Per-video insights

Growth
see the evidence ↓

views

Emerging — worth watching

Patterns this specific video shows on the channel’s own scale. One card per detector that had something to say.

On the channel

Growth
see the evidence ↓

How the channel as a whole has been moving lately — context beyond this one video.

First 24 hours

Common advice checked here: “Videos peak in days 1–3” — disagrees on this channel.

7 views thumbnail shows click rate

7 views in the first 24 hours.

Other Day 1 windows on this channel are still small — worth watching a few more before comparing.

Traffic

Share by source

Suggested Videos
72%49 views
Channel Page
9%6 views
Playlist
4%3 views
Playlist Page
0%0 views

Source mix: Mostly one source

Sticky traffic: 18% of total views came from sources where the viewer chose to come back (Direct, Channel Page, Playlist, End Screen, Link)

Click rate by traffic source

How often viewers clicked this video’s thumbnail per surface, alongside the channel-wide trend over the last 30 days.

  • Suggested Videos1.6%
  • Browse / Homepage1.8%
  • Channel Page4.2%·
  • Direct / Unknown·
  • Playlist7.1%·
  • YouTube Search0.0%·
  • Playlist Page0.0%·

Click rate often varies by surface — the same thumbnail tends to land differently with a Browse audience than a Search audience. Trend arrows show the source’s channel-wide direction over the last 30 days, not this video specifically.

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  • Suggested Videos1.5K shown
  • Browse / Homepage219 shown
  • Channel Page72 shown
  • Direct / Unknownno impression data
  • Playlist14 shown — read loosely, few shows
  • YouTube Search4 shown — read loosely, few shows
  • Playlist Page2 shown — read loosely, few shows

Discovery pattern

How discovery usually arrives — and where this video sits.

On this channel, discovery usually arrives in this order: Suggested around the day of publish, Browse around Day 1, and Search around Day 18.

  • Browse activated on Day 1 — within the channel's typical range.
  • Suggested activated on publish day — within the channel's typical range.
  • Search has not picked up yet at Day 60 — the channel's typical activation is around Day 18.
SourceChannel typicalThis videoStatus
Browse / HomepageDay 1Day 1within typical
YouTube SearchDay 18not yet
Suggested VideosDay 0Day 0within typical

Traffic sources by day

DateSourceViewsWatch TimeClick Rate
Apr 10, 2026Channel Page18m
Apr 10, 2026Suggested Videos621m
Apr 11, 2026Browse / Homepage311m3.0%
Apr 11, 2026Channel Page27m20.0%
Apr 11, 2026Direct / Unknown12m
Apr 11, 2026Playlist00m0.0%
Apr 11, 2026Suggested Videos1535m1.5%
Apr 12, 2026Browse / Homepage311m2.1%
Apr 12, 2026Channel Page11m100.0%
Apr 12, 2026Playlist218m14.3%
Apr 12, 2026Playlist Page00m0.0%
Apr 12, 2026Suggested Videos833m1.7%
Apr 13, 2026Browse / Homepage12m1.1%
Apr 13, 2026Channel Page00m0.0%
Apr 13, 2026Direct / Unknown10m
Apr 13, 2026Playlist00m0.0%
Apr 13, 2026Suggested Videos20m1.4%
Apr 14, 2026Browse / Homepage00m0.0%
Apr 14, 2026Channel Page00m0.0%
Apr 14, 2026Direct / Unknown11m
Apr 14, 2026Playlist10m0.0%
Apr 14, 2026Suggested Videos47m1.4%
Apr 15, 2026Suggested Videos513m
Apr 16, 2026Channel Page10m
Apr 18, 2026Suggested Videos36m
Apr 19, 2026Channel Page00m0.0%
Apr 19, 2026Suggested Videos00m0.0%
Apr 21, 2026Channel Page00m0.0%
Apr 21, 2026Suggested Videos110m0.0%
Apr 22, 2026Suggested Videos214m4.2%
Apr 23, 2026Channel Page00m0.0%
Apr 23, 2026Suggested Videos00m0.0%
Apr 24, 2026Suggested Videos10m25.0%
Apr 25, 2026Channel Page00m0.0%
Apr 25, 2026Suggested Videos00m0.0%
Apr 26, 2026Channel Page00m0.0%
Apr 26, 2026Suggested Videos00m0.0%
Apr 26, 2026YouTube Search00m0.0%
Apr 27, 2026Suggested Videos210m0.0%
Apr 28, 2026Channel Page00m0.0%
Apr 28, 2026Suggested Videos00m0.0%
Apr 29, 2026Channel Page00m0.0%
Apr 29, 2026Suggested Videos00m0.0%
Apr 29, 2026YouTube Search00m0.0%
Apr 30, 2026Channel Page00m0.0%
May 2, 2026Suggested Videos00m0.0%
May 2, 2026YouTube Search00m0.0%
May 3, 2026Suggested Videos00m0.0%
May 4, 2026Channel Page00m0.0%
May 6, 2026Channel Page00m0.0%
May 6, 2026YouTube Search00m0.0%
May 10, 2026Channel Page00m0.0%
May 11, 2026Channel Page11m33.3%
May 13, 2026Channel Page00m0.0%
May 17, 2026Channel Page00m0.0%
May 21, 2026Suggested Videos00m0.0%
May 22, 2026Channel Page00m0.0%
May 23, 2026Channel Page00m0.0%
May 23, 2026Suggested Videos00m0.0%
May 25, 2026Channel Page00m0.0%
May 26, 2026Channel Page00m0.0%
May 28, 2026Channel Page00m0.0%
May 31, 2026Suggested Videos00m0.0%
Jun 2, 2026Channel Page00m0.0%
Jun 8, 2026Channel Page00m0.0%

Views on this video have come mostly from Suggested Videos (72% of total). Browse / Homepage, Channel Page, and other sources contributed the rest.

This video was shown 6.2 times for each view. The channel’s median is 25 times per view.

Retention

0%25%50%75%100%channel median 28%You Did Everything Right and You're Still Nowhere: 52.2% retention, 3m 14s avg watchAm I the Most Interesting Boring Person You'll Ever Meet?: 22.5% retention, 1m 45s avg watchToxic Positivity Isn’t the Problem You Think It Is: 16.3% retention, 1m 25s avg watchThe lie you tell yourself when nothing is working: 14.8% retention, 55s avg watchWhy You Sound Like a Scammer Even When You're Not Lying: 20.3% retention, 1m 41s avg watchYou don't need a business idea to start: 28.8% retention, 2m 13s avg watchYou Don't Have to Quit to Get Started: 11.6% retention, 39s avg watchWhy Listening To Their Advice Will Make You Average: 14.1% retention, 1m 28s avg watchEntrepreneurs Are Just The ones Who Out Lasted Everyone Else: 28.5% retention, 2m 33s avg watchMost People Who Are Built for This Are Convinced They're Not: 61.4% retention, 3m 41s avg watchEvery Founder You Admire Started With a Worse Idea Than Yours: 34.3% retention, 2m 11s avg watchThe Hardest Part of Starting Over Is Having Already Succeeded: 25.3% retention, 3m 3s avg watchHow I Blew a Two-Year Head Start on Zuckerberg: 33.0% retention, 1m 19s avg watchThe only way to start is to start it badly: 100.0% retention, 8m 18s avg watchThe six fixable mistakes that are stalling your dream: 44.3% retention, 4m 49s avg watchThe Sneaky Fear That Stops Even the Most Prepared People: 29.9% retention, 3m 12s avg watchThe Worst Case You're Imagining Isn't Real: 40.3% retention, 3m 59s avg watchYou Don't Need More Motivation. You Need THIS.: 27.0% retention, 4m 37s avg watchYou Don't Have to Grow Up to Get Rich: 18.8% retention, 1m 22s avg watchYou Already Know What's Holding You Back: 6.9% retention, 41s avg watchThe Real Reason You Won't Make the Decision: 33.1% retention, 2m 52s avg watchThe Quality That Got You This Far Might Be Lying to You Now: 32.8% retention, 3m 22s avg watchPlease don't watch this video: 8.2% retention, 3m 14s avg watchNobody Wants to Hear That You're Happy: 19.7% retention, 2m 8s avg watchStop Protecting a Job That's Probably Going to Leave You Anyway: 19.0% retention, 2m 10s avg watchThe Two Ways People Use Authenticity as an Excuse: 30.1% retention, 2m 10s avg watchSuccess Looks Disappointingly Ordinary: 10.3% retention, 49s avg watchThe Guilt Nobody Talks About When Your Startup Fails: 14.9% retention, 2m 6s avg watchThe Real Reason You're Not Getting What You Want: 32.5% retention, 1m 31s avg watchI Kind of Hope You Fail: 30.5% retention, 3m 8s avg watch30.5%3m 8s avg watch
Retention across 30 videos on this channel; channel median 27.8%.
VideoRetention %Avg watchHighlighted
The only way to start is to start it badly100.0%8m 18s
Most People Who Are Built for This Are Convinced They're Not61.4%3m 41s
You Did Everything Right and You're Still Nowhere52.2%3m 14s
The six fixable mistakes that are stalling your dream44.3%4m 49s
The Worst Case You're Imagining Isn't Real40.3%3m 59s
Every Founder You Admire Started With a Worse Idea Than Yours34.3%2m 11s
The Real Reason You Won't Make the Decision33.1%2m 52s
How I Blew a Two-Year Head Start on Zuckerberg33.0%1m 19s
The Quality That Got You This Far Might Be Lying to You Now32.8%3m 22s
The Real Reason You're Not Getting What You Want32.5%1m 31s
I Kind of Hope You Fail30.5%3m 8syes
The Two Ways People Use Authenticity as an Excuse30.1%2m 10s
The Sneaky Fear That Stops Even the Most Prepared People29.9%3m 12s
You don't need a business idea to start28.8%2m 13s
Entrepreneurs Are Just The ones Who Out Lasted Everyone Else28.5%2m 33s
You Don't Need More Motivation. You Need THIS.27.0%4m 37s
The Hardest Part of Starting Over Is Having Already Succeeded25.3%3m 3s
Am I the Most Interesting Boring Person You'll Ever Meet?22.5%1m 45s
Why You Sound Like a Scammer Even When You're Not Lying20.3%1m 41s
Nobody Wants to Hear That You're Happy19.7%2m 8s
Stop Protecting a Job That's Probably Going to Leave You Anyway19.0%2m 10s
You Don't Have to Grow Up to Get Rich18.8%1m 22s
Toxic Positivity Isn’t the Problem You Think It Is16.3%1m 25s
The Guilt Nobody Talks About When Your Startup Fails14.9%2m 6s
The lie you tell yourself when nothing is working14.8%55s
Why Listening To Their Advice Will Make You Average14.1%1m 28s
You Don't Have to Quit to Get Started11.6%39s
Success Looks Disappointingly Ordinary10.3%49s
Please don't watch this video8.2%3m 14s
You Already Know What's Holding You Back6.9%41s

Median retention on this channel is 27.8%. This one: 30.5%.

Engagement

Engagement velocity: 1 in the first 24h, 4 across the first seven days

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Engagement events (likes, comments, shares) per unit time over the recent window. The 24-hour figure is sensitive to a single hot day; the 7-day figure smooths it. Often diagnostic in the first week after publish; less so after a video stabilizes.

Placement

110100The Guilt Nobody Talks About When Your Startup Fails: 411 views, day 61You don't need a business idea to start: 236 views, day 33Please don't watch this video: 98 views, day 56Success Looks Disappointingly Ordinary: 91 views, day 60The Real Reason You Won't Make the Decision: 69 views, day 52Why You Sound Like a Scammer Even When You're Not Lying: 37 views, day 32The lie you tell yourself when nothing is working: 31 views, day 31Stop Protecting a Job That's Probably Going to Leave You Anyway: 29 views, day 58You Don't Need More Motivation. You Need THIS.: 27 views, day 49Toxic Positivity Isn’t the Problem You Think It Is: 26 views, day 4Every Founder You Admire Started With a Worse Idea Than Yours: 26 views, day 38Why Listening To Their Advice Will Make You Average: 23 views, day 35The Two Ways People Use Authenticity as an Excuse: 23 views, day 59How I Blew a Two-Year Head Start on Zuckerberg: 20 views, day 42You Don't Have to Grow Up to Get Rich: 14 views, day 50The Real Reason You're Not Getting What You Want: 14 views, day 63Entrepreneurs Are Just The ones Who Out Lasted Everyone Else: 11 views, day 36Most People Who Are Built for This Are Convinced They're Not: 11 views, day 37The Quality That Got You This Far Might Be Lying to You Now: 11 views, day 55Nobody Wants to Hear That You're Happy: 8 views, day 57The Sneaky Fear That Stops Even the Most Prepared People: 6 views, day 45You Already Know What's Holding You Back: 6 views, day 51The Hardest Part of Starting Over Is Having Already Succeeded: 5 views, day 39The six fixable mistakes that are stalling your dream: 5 views, day 44You Don't Have to Quit to Get Started: 3 views, day 34The Worst Case You're Imagining Isn't Real: 3 views, day 47You Did Everything Right and You're Still Nowhere: 2 views, day 0Am I the Most Interesting Boring Person You'll Ever Meet?: 1 view, day 2The only way to start is to start it badly: 1 view, day 43I Kind of Hope You Fail: 68 views, day 62I Kind of Hope You Fail
30 videos on this channel, by lifetime views.
VideoLifetime viewsDays since publishHighlighted
The Guilt Nobody Talks About When Your Startup Fails41161
You don't need a business idea to start23633
Please don't watch this video9856
Success Looks Disappointingly Ordinary9160
The Real Reason You Won't Make the Decision6952
I Kind of Hope You Fail6862yes
Why You Sound Like a Scammer Even When You're Not Lying3732
The lie you tell yourself when nothing is working3131
Stop Protecting a Job That's Probably Going to Leave You Anyway2958
You Don't Need More Motivation. You Need THIS.2749
Toxic Positivity Isn’t the Problem You Think It Is264
Every Founder You Admire Started With a Worse Idea Than Yours2638
Why Listening To Their Advice Will Make You Average2335
The Two Ways People Use Authenticity as an Excuse2359
How I Blew a Two-Year Head Start on Zuckerberg2042
You Don't Have to Grow Up to Get Rich1450
The Real Reason You're Not Getting What You Want1463
Entrepreneurs Are Just The ones Who Out Lasted Everyone Else1136
Most People Who Are Built for This Are Convinced They're Not1137
The Quality That Got You This Far Might Be Lying to You Now1155
Nobody Wants to Hear That You're Happy857
The Sneaky Fear That Stops Even the Most Prepared People645
You Already Know What's Holding You Back651
The Hardest Part of Starting Over Is Having Already Succeeded539
The six fixable mistakes that are stalling your dream544
You Don't Have to Quit to Get Started334
The Worst Case You're Imagining Isn't Real347
You Did Everything Right and You're Still Nowhere20
Am I the Most Interesting Boring Person You'll Ever Meet?12
The only way to start is to start it badly143

Among this channel's 30 videos, this one ranks #6 by lifetime views. One dot per video below — this video's dot is highlighted.

How discovery unfolded

  • First Browse impressionDay 1
  • First Suggested impressionDay 1
  • Crossed 10 viewsDay 1
  • Crossed 50 viewsDay 4
  • First likeDay 0
  • First subscriberDay 0

Days from publish to each first-of-its-kind moment. Surfaces that haven’t lit up yet are omitted.

Country mix

Daily views by country on I Kind of Hope You Fail, top 6 shown, through 2026-06-11Stacked area: each band is one country's daily share of views. Top countries: United States, Pakistan, Australia.
United StatesPakistanAustraliaUnknown RegionOther

Daily views by country, top six shown · through Jun 11, 2026. Geography typically widens slowly as a video ages — the band shape often holds even when overall volume changes.

Dominant country: United States at 100%.

Metric history

Click rate

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latest day

Views

0

latest day

Shown

0

latest day

Avg watch

0:31

latest day

Day-by-day for this video. Each tile traces one metric from publish through Jun 11, 2026.

The daily trace

Every day since publish (60 days)
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DateDayViewsClick RateAvg Watch
Apr 10, 2026074:10
Apr 11, 20261212:36
Apr 12, 20262144:28
Apr 13, 2026341.3%0:39
Apr 14, 2026461:28
Apr 15, 2026552:33
Apr 16, 2026610:19
Apr 18, 2026832:05
Apr 19, 2026900.0%
Apr 20, 20261000.0%
Apr 21, 20261110.0%10:16
Apr 22, 20261224.2%7:10
Apr 23, 20261300.0%
Apr 24, 202614125.0%0:20
Apr 25, 20261500.0%
Apr 26, 20261600.0%
Apr 27, 20261720.0%5:10
Apr 28, 20261800.0%
Apr 29, 20261900.0%
Apr 30, 20262000.0%
May 1, 2026210
May 2, 20262200.0%
May 3, 20262300.0%
May 4, 20262400.0%
May 5, 2026250
May 6, 20262600.0%
May 7, 2026270
May 8, 2026280
May 9, 2026290
May 10, 20263000.0%
May 11, 202631133.3%0:31
May 12, 2026320
May 13, 20263300.0%
May 14, 2026340
May 15, 2026350
May 16, 2026360
May 17, 20263700.0%
May 18, 2026380
May 19, 2026390
May 20, 2026400
May 21, 20264100.0%
May 22, 20264200.0%
May 23, 20264300.0%
May 24, 2026440
May 25, 20264500.0%
May 26, 20264600.0%
May 27, 2026470
May 28, 20264800.0%
May 29, 2026490
May 30, 2026500
May 31, 20265100.0%
Jun 1, 2026520
Jun 2, 20265300.0%
Jun 3, 2026540
Jun 5, 2026560
Jun 6, 2026570
Jun 7, 2026580
Jun 8, 20265900.0%
Jun 9, 2026600
Jun 11, 2026620

Every day since publish, with the per-day view count, thumbnail shows, click rate, and watch stats.

What fills in as this video grows

A few parts of this read need more data than this video has yet. Each one appears here once the data lands.

  • Changesonce this video's title or thumbnail is edited

Absences

What did not happen

quiet facts
  • No views from outside YouTube (shares, embeds, links).
  • No comments posted.
  • No shares recorded.
  • Peaked on Day 1; no second wind in the 59 days since.