The old version, a submission to the Summer of Math Exposition 3 contest in summer 2023 with horrible audio quality in certain places, achieved over 28,000 views in its first month, but then flatlined. I removed some of the most unlistenable sections and re-recorded the first few minutes, and reuploaded the video after a delay of over a year.
Blog post about the situation: https://tinyurl.com/confluxblog/post/my-unlistenable-youtube-video-got-28-706-views
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO3XBTDG7GY
Graph for the old one:
And here's retention — new:
old:
General policy for my markets: In the rare event of a conflict between my resolution criteria and the agreed-upon common-sense spirit of the market, I may resolve it according to the market's spirit or N/A, probably after discussion.