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Or some other magic intervened..

It worked! This video was my second-most-watched before I asked you all to “watch, like, and subscribe”.

At that stage, the decline from the initial viewing spurt was well in train.

Then, hourly views started to trend upwards again:

This video has jumped from 2nd place to being my most-watched video, and it still seems to be maintaining that upwards trajectory.

This chart shows how this video compares to the average. It’s now well above this average trend. I need that to be sustained until my videos go from hundreds of thousands of views, to millions.

If you’re following me here—and especially if you’re a paying subscriber—then you’re aware of humanity’s needs which I attempt to fulfil: I am combatting ignorance about how the financial system operates, and delusions about climate change peddled by the idiots savant of mainstream economics. I’m not the only person doing those things, but I am almost certainly the only person doing both.

But there is also a personal reason why I need this YouTube channel to succeed.

I established this Substack page to try to reverse a trend of falling support on Patreon: since 2022, my income from Patreon dropped from $10,000 a month to under $5,000 now. It worked: without Substack, I would have been forced to sell my apartment in Amsterdam and move permanently to Thailand. But at $25,000 a year right now, Substack made up for only half the fall in income from Patreon. If 4 videos a month get 1 million views each, I will earn $10,000 a month, which will enable me to worry less about my personal finances and focus more on my work.

So please, keep watching my videos when they come out, to help me game the YouTube algorithm until it puts my views before millions of people, rather than just thousands. I’ll make it easy to do by putting out a post shortly after each new video comes out (normally on a Sunday afternoon, New York time). Please open the link, and then watch the full video on YouTube (normally under 15 minutes long).