Rabbit Bites YouTube

Rabbit Bites has a long history of firsts: The first real television program on the internet, the first successful show with real rabbits, and the first show with talking rabbits. Buns and Chou Chou were the first rabbit journalists with the courage to tell the truth about the state of online video and vlogging (we apologize, but it really needed to be done by someone). In the latest of these glorious accomplishments we now are the first again.  Please, no applause, just throw...errr...carrots.

 When Lee Gomes of the Wall Street Journal reported some of  YouTube's statistics in August, he began his article with a qualification:  "If the data from YouTube are to be believed..."  Well Lee, we have been been digging around YouTube  with a rodentine feverishness, and  have concluded that another real story might be how their stats are being generated. Lee , we only have four paws each.  Could you help us to straighten this out, and get to the bottom of it?  We're just a couple knuckle-headed rabbits, so what do we know? 

You have to be popular to stand out!
We are popular. That's how we became two of the best known rabbits in show business.  And popularity is how one stands out in  the modern visual Babylon known as YouTube. There are many categories that measure popularity on the site such as the most viewed, top rated, top favorites, most discussed, etc. These categories are further divided by time periods: current day, past week, month, and all time. This process exists so that users can manage to sift through the videos and find something interesting to watch. A similar process exists on many video sites. We don't know about how other sites generate statistics, but on YouTube, in every category, you could  manipulate the results. Let's face it, the motivation is there because the stakes are so high. If you get Hollywood's notice, you could be sitting next to Angelina and Brad in a couple of months, eating organic ginger ice cream and walking home with a swag bag. 
 
After scurrying around YouTube's site for just a couple of days, we don't think that our keen senses are fooling us:  there could be a number of video "enthusiasts" who are trying to stay on top of the YouTube pile, all day long, every day, in every category.  If you are trying to market a video, this is where you would want to be so that you might actually get your video watched.. Such self-made "success" could then beget real success and you may well continue to get all the attention.

People on the internet, they are like us, the rabbit folk.  When running around the house like the blazes, we test every little crack and crevice...just because we can.                                                                                                                                                                     1,2