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Why I cant be a truck driver PT: 2

Published Jan 7, 20260:10 long71 days of data

This channel's #2 video by views — quiet for now, a steady anchor for the channel.

0Views, last 7 daysthis video's last 7 days
Why I cant be a truck driver PT: 2Watch on YouTube
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1% 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

Sustained high performer relative to this channel.

Lifetime views

1.5K

Ranked #2 by views on this channel.

After week one

1%

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

Main source

Shorts Feed

Where most of this video's views came from.

Phase

quiet

quiet stage

Source fit

Weak

Top: Channel Page

Per-video timeline of publish, milestones, era changes, and stage transitions for Why I cant be a truck driver PT: 2 · through Aug 25, 2026

Day 0 — Jan 7, 2026Today — Aug 25, 2026230 days

Trajectory cone

At Day 229, this video’s 1451 views sat near the busier end of where this channel’s videos usually were at the same age.

Based on this channel's own 11 videos at this age.

Chart loading.

The shaded band is where other videos on this channel had reached by each day after publish; the dashed line is the middle — total views by that day, not a single day’s count.

At day 10, this video’s cumulative-views curve sat closest to Comment your map suggestions below! at the same age. Comment your map suggestions below! has since reached 387 views by day 61. Comparison drew on 14 videos on this channel that reached day 10.

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

Rank

1.5K

lifetime views

No. 2 of 28 by views

This video ranks #2 of 28 on this channel for lifetime views. By publish date, it's 20th among the videos the channel lists.

Impressions
20
CTR
3.2%0.7%6.5%Too few impressions to read (20) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Avg view duration
0:05
48% of video watched
Engagement
0.5%
7 likes
Subscribers
+0
0.0 per 1K views
Watch per impression
5.75 min

The arc

Cumulative views over 229 days: 1.5K total. Channel p25–p75 band shown behind the curve. Daily mix from 4 traffic sources shown underneath.Day 1Day 7Day 30Day 0Day 7Day 14Day 30Day 60Day 90Day 180Day 2291.2K2.4K3.6K4.8K1.5Ktotal views
this videochannel medianchannel typical rangeopen pooltraffic:Shorts FeedYouTube SearchChannel PageOther YouTube

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.

At Day 229, videos on this channel typically pass around 14 views by then.

Per-video insights

Growth

No views in the last week for Why I cant be a truck driver PT: 2. Peak was 477.7 views/day on Day 2 (100% below peak).

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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

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

Traffic

Share by source

Shorts Feed
96%1396 views
YouTube Search
2%27 views
Channel Page
1%18 views
Other YouTube
1%11 views

Source mix: Mostly one source

Sticky traffic: 1% of total views came from sources where the viewer chose to come back (Direct, Channel Page, Playlist, End Screen, Link)

CTR by traffic source

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

  • Shorts Feed·
  • YouTube Search·
  • Channel Page0.5%0.0%1.5%
  • Other YouTube·

CTR 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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  • Shorts Feedno impression data
  • YouTube Searchno impression data
  • Channel Page20 shown — read loosely, few shows
  • Other YouTubeno impression data

Discovery pattern

How discovery usually arrives — and where this video sits.

On this channel, discovery usually arrives in this order: Search around the day of publish, Suggested around the day of publish, and Browse around Day 5.

  • Search activated on publish day — within the channel's typical range.
  • Browse has not picked up yet at Day 71 — the channel's typical activation is around Day 5.
  • Suggested has not picked up yet at Day 71 — the channel's typical activation is around Day 0.
SourceChannel typicalThis videoStatus
Browse / HomepageDay 5not yet
YouTube SearchDay 0Day 0within typical
Suggested VideosDay 0not yet
Traffic by day

Traffic sources by day

DateSourceViewsWatch TimeCTR
Jan 7, 2026Channel Page40mToo few impressions to read (0) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Jan 7, 2026Other YouTube110mToo few impressions to read (0) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Jan 7, 2026Shorts Feed13831h 52mToo few impressions to read (0) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Jan 7, 2026YouTube Search272mToo few impressions to read (0) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Jan 8, 2026Shorts Feed70mToo few impressions to read (0) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Jan 9, 2026Shorts Feed10mToo few impressions to read (0) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Jan 10, 2026Shorts Feed30mToo few impressions to read (0) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Jan 11, 2026Channel Page40mToo few impressions to read (0) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Jan 12, 2026Channel Page10mToo few impressions to read (0) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Jan 13, 2026Channel Page20mToo few impressions to read (0) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Jan 14, 2026Channel Page10mToo few impressions to read (0) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Jan 15, 2026Channel Page10mToo few impressions to read (0) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Jan 16, 2026Channel Page20mToo few impressions to read (0) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Jan 17, 2026Shorts Feed20mToo few impressions to read (0) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Apr 28, 2026Channel Page10mToo few impressions to read (0) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
May 10, 2026Channel Page10mToo few impressions to read (0) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Jun 13, 2026Channel Page00m5.1%1.1%10.3%Too few impressions to read (1) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Jun 29, 2026Channel Page00m4.8%1.1%9.7%Too few impressions to read (3) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Jul 8, 2026Channel Page00m4.9%1.1%10.0%Too few impressions to read (2) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Jul 9, 2026Channel Page00m5.1%1.1%10.3%Too few impressions to read (1) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Jul 11, 2026Channel Page00m4.6%1.0%9.4%Too few impressions to read (4) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Jul 14, 2026Channel Page00m4.9%1.1%10.0%Too few impressions to read (2) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Jul 21, 2026Channel Page00m5.1%1.1%10.3%Too few impressions to read (1) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Jul 27, 2026Channel Page00m4.9%1.1%10.0%Too few impressions to read (2) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Aug 11, 2026Channel Page10m4.9%1.1%10.0%Too few impressions to read (2) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Aug 24, 2026Channel Page00m4.9%1.1%10.0%Too few impressions to read (2) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions

Most views on this video arrived via Shorts Feed (96%). The rest came from YouTube Search, Channel Page, and other sources.

This video was shown 0.0 times for each view. The channel’s median is 0.1 times per view.

Forecast & early signal

Early signal

D3D7Now
Views1.4K1.4K1.5K
Impressions20
CTR3.2%0.7%6.5%Too few impressions to read (20) — CTR unreliable below 50 impressions
Avg duration0:050:050:05

Cumulative numbers at each milestone. Day 3 and Day 7 add once the video reaches them; the 229-day-old “Now” column is the running total.

First 24 hours

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

1425 views thumbnail shows click rate

3.6× this channel's Day 1 average (396 views).

Above-average Day 1 often corresponds to YouTube pushing the video through a wider initial test — though Day 1 alone isn't a reliable predictor of lifetime performance.

Open the full deep dive71 days tracked — open the full deep dive: retention across the catalog, the placement dot-plot, the country mix, and the change history.

Absences

What did not happen

quiet facts
  • Never received Browse / Homepage traffic.
  • No views from external links (shares, embeds, other sites).
  • No comments posted.
  • No shares recorded.
  • No subscribers gained from this video.
  • Peaked on Day 0; no second wind in the 71 days since.