does friedman know what "inelastic demand" means?
Sunday, May 25, 2014
these are the existing stats on my top video. i've pointed out
repeatedly that buying views would not help me, due to the fact that
i'm an abstract artist and have no commercial potential or potential to
herd a flock. but these stats make it clear they aren't bought. you'd
think it would make more sense to run it against poisson or something
(perhaps some research is necessary to get the right distribution,
poisson strikes me as useful in finding the rare event of a full play)
to determine if the data fits a reasonable shape, rather than to just be
all racist about it.
it's that one algerian hit i want, not the hundreds of dumb americans that get confused after 0:07. i'd rather they delete the american hits, and let me keep the algerian one.
we'll have to see what they do or don't do with this, but it seems like all those hits outside of the first world - in turkey and south africa and elsewhere - will be declared fake.
because they don't actually exist.
it's that one algerian hit i want, not the hundreds of dumb americans that get confused after 0:07. i'd rather they delete the american hits, and let me keep the algerian one.
we'll have to see what they do or don't do with this, but it seems like all those hits outside of the first world - in turkey and south africa and elsewhere - will be declared fake.
because they don't actually exist.
i'm noticing that the youtube algorithm is basically racist, in that it rejects any hits from outside of the "first world".
sorry, white men from california. i post regularly on videos discussing global affairs. those hits from russia are legit.
in your world, nobody in russia actually uses the internet, i guess.
i ultimately don't really care. youtube views are not a meaningful currency to an obscure artist that is about substance over style. like anybody else, it makes sense for me to maximize the potential audience. but, i'd rather have one quality hit than ten thousand people that listen for five seconds. see, the unfortunate reality, though, is that the latter is necessary to get the former.
but, people should be aware that youtube isn't actually really cracking down on fake hits, it's just applying a type of racial profiling, and it's going to negatively affect people with an actual global reach, by turning audiences outside of the first world into non-entities.
in a sense, it's sort of what we all already knew: the tech industry doesn't think the rest of the world actually exists.
sorry, white men from california. i post regularly on videos discussing global affairs. those hits from russia are legit.
in your world, nobody in russia actually uses the internet, i guess.
i ultimately don't really care. youtube views are not a meaningful currency to an obscure artist that is about substance over style. like anybody else, it makes sense for me to maximize the potential audience. but, i'd rather have one quality hit than ten thousand people that listen for five seconds. see, the unfortunate reality, though, is that the latter is necessary to get the former.
but, people should be aware that youtube isn't actually really cracking down on fake hits, it's just applying a type of racial profiling, and it's going to negatively affect people with an actual global reach, by turning audiences outside of the first world into non-entities.
in a sense, it's sort of what we all already knew: the tech industry doesn't think the rest of the world actually exists.
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