Posted on 01/30/2021 12:39:07 PM PST by grundle
I’ve seen screenshots of YouTube modifying dislikes of White House videos. I decided I would do a thorough analysis myself. I wrote a script to check video stats every 80 seconds for 24 hours – for all videos on White House’s YouTube channel.
The collected data is archived here and here. The format is space-separated “CSV”, as follows:
VideoURL UnixTimestamp Date,Time Views Likes Dislikes
Here is a sample of the most egregious manipulation:
Some videos were delisted in minutes!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bpSkdYUtNU 1611771197 01/27/2021,13:13:17 1227 437 2963
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bpSkdYUtNU 1611771285 01/27/2021,13:14:45 1463 441 2999
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bpSkdYUtNU 1611771372 01/27/2021,13:16:12 1763 449 3030
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bpSkdYUtNU 1611771459 01/27/2021,13:17:39 2476 455 3060
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bpSkdYUtNU 1611771546 01/27/2021,13:19:06 2640 459 3098
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bpSkdYUtNU 1611771720 01/27/2021,13:22:00 3588 470 3183
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxo3OHKjfxs 1611699362 01/26/2021,17:16:02 918 405 4942
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxo3OHKjfxs 1611699448 01/26/2021,17:17:28 1202 412 4976
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxo3OHKjfxs 1611699534 01/26/2021,17:18:54 1375 415 5026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juqHZYKzyx0 1611766646 01/27/2021,11:57:26 255 375 1771
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juqHZYKzyx0 1611766733 01/27/2021,11:58:53 455 380 1823
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juqHZYKzyx0 1611766819 01/27/2021,12:00:19 455 383 1852
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juqHZYKzyx0 1611766906 01/27/2021,12:01:46 819 387 1886
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juqHZYKzyx0 1611766992 01/27/2021,12:03:12 1148 393 1932
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juqHZYKzyx0 1611767079 01/27/2021,12:04:39 1462 397 1971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juqHZYKzyx0 1611767166 01/27/2021,12:06:06 1830 398 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucvgAZG_IT4 1611770591 01/27/2021,13:03:11 1587 83 2040
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucvgAZG_IT4 1611770764 01/27/2021,13:06:04 3014 95 2114
Likes+Dislikes was greater than views in some cases. Although that seems impossible, Youtube updates views slower, so they do not reflect real views at the time. For example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw1_00uI02U 1611720090 01/26/2021,23:01:30 44404 924 8099
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw1_00uI02U 1611720176 01/26/2021,23:02:56 44404 924 8118
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw1_00uI02U 1611720260 01/26/2021,23:04:20 44404 925 8132
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw1_00uI02U 1611720345 01/26/2021,23:05:45 44404 925 8151
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw1_00uI02U 1611720429 01/26/2021,23:07:09 44404 925 8168
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw1_00uI02U 1611720514 01/26/2021,23:08:34 44556 925 8184
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw1_00uI02U 1611720599 01/26/2021,23:09:59 44556 925 8199
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw1_00uI02U 1611720683 01/26/2021,23:11:23 44556 928 8219
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw1_00uI02U 1611720768 01/26/2021,23:12:48 44556 928 8237
So it’s possible for likes and dislikes to accumulate while views stays the same. Eventually, views jumps up to better reflect reality.
The record of every time dislikes were removed is archived at https://pastebin.com/raw/F4ELDc4R
Grant Total -130321
130 Thousand dislikes were removed in a 24hr period!
And this is for the most popular US President of all time!
Enjoy 🙂 -Zoe
Update
The timezone for the charts is UTC (London). Did you notice the huge drop at 06 hour (1 AM US Eastern)? Most working people go to sleep by that time. Coincidence? I think not.
Code wh.sh:
# Zoe Phin, 2021/01/26
require() { sudo apt-get install curl gnuplot; }
stats() { list=$(curl -s 'https://www.youtube.com/c/WhiteHouse/videos' | grep -o 'watch?v=[^"]*') for i in $list; do link="https://www.youtube.com/$i" date=$(date +"%s %x,%R:%S" | tr -d '\n') curl -s $link | tr -d ',' | tr '}' '\n' > new grep -m 1 -o '[0-9,]* views' new > .views grep -m 1 -o '[0-9,]* likes' new > .likes grep -m 1 -o '[0-9,]* dislikes' new > .dislikes
paste .views .likes .dislikes | awk -vL=$link -vD="$date" ' NF==6{printf "%s %s %9s %9s %9s\n", L, D, $1, $3, $5}' done }
collect() { while true; do stats; sleep 75 done | tee -a data.csv }
dislikes() { list=$(cut -c1-44 data.csv | sort -u)
for vid in $list; do echo $vid grep ^$vid data.csv | awk '{ DiffD=$6-D if (DiffD < 0) { printf "%s %+7d\n", $3, DiffD DLost+=DiffD } L=$5; D=$6 } END { printf "%-19s %7d\n", "Total", DLost }' echo done | awk '{ print} $1=="Total" { GT+=$2 } END { printf "%-17s %9d\n", "Grant Total", GT }' }
plot() { list=$(cut -c1-44 data.csv | sort -u) let n=0
for vid in $list; do let n++ awk -vV=$vid '$1==V {print $2" "$4" "$5" "$6}' data.csv > plot.csv
echo "set term png size 740,740 set key top left set grid xtics ytics set title '$vid' set timefmt '%s' set xdata time set xtics format '%Hh' plot 'plot.csv' u 1:2 t 'Views' w lines lc rgb 'black' lw 2,\ '' u 1:3 t 'Likes' w lines lc rgb 'green' lw 2,\ '' u 1:4 t 'Dislikes' w lines lc rgb 'red' lw 2 " | gnuplot > example${n}.png done }
Run:
$ source wh.sh; require
Collect data:
$ collect
( press Ctrl-C when you're done )
Record of dislike drops:
$ dislikes
Generate charts:
$ plot
And likes or dislikes are really important some kind of way.
Right?
Just part of the effort to manage the sheeple’s perception of reality.
bttt
It’s like the election but opposite.
It’s the fake president.
From fake election.
He is not president.
To folks who can read code, or even simple graphs, and appreciate the level of manipulation/gaslighting to which even leftards are being subjected, yes.
What date?
Easy to do it by banning conservatives, then their data disappear.
At some point the water-carrying press will tout all the YT Likes as “proof” of Biden’s popularity.
I’ve been watching this aspect of Resident bitem over the last week. There is one aspect which is befuddling to me...
If YT can reset the dislikes, what prevents them (if anything), from making the likes increase? From adjusting likes and dislikes to align with views?
Why doesn’t YT just make up all three numbers to their “liking”?
It looks just like the software that was used to add Biden votes at 3 am and take away Trump votes.
“Alleged” _resident!
Yep. At some point they will say “Look! 99.9% of the population LOVES what Joey is doing!”
Reminds me of old Soviet elections where the Premier “won” 99.9% of the popular vote.
The Satanic creeps currently in the White House don’t like We The People calling them out on their criminal acts, so they tasked the pink-haired and rat-faced fags at Youtube to stifle and obfuscate the truth about them.
Odd that they don’t gin up any fake likes if it’s important enough to them that they’ll disappear the dislikes.
This is excellent work.
It shows the acute gaslighting in progress.
It is very difficult to disprove.
Very, very good work.
Excellent work!!!
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