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howaboutalittlehelpneos · 4 years

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YGO! Questionnaire

Tagged by @cipher-wise

Pleasantly surprised to be in one of these, so let’s go

Favorite series: *Gestures to icon* Is it any surprise I’ll be picking GX? I love GX with all my heart and soul. The story’s pacing is very good and never feels like it’s dragging its feet to get to where it’s going, most duels are over in less than a full episode with the longest one being three, there are so many good characters to get invested in, and this boy right here is your protagonist.

Look at him blow kisses to the audience after beating Crowler, how could anyone not love Jaden Yuki? I care him so much. Even the filler episodes in GX are pretty fun to watch most of the time, and it’s the good kind of filler that may not advance the plot much or at all, but it’ll give you plenty of good memories to take with you. Who could possibly forget the eggwich thief? Not to mention the soundtrack fucking slaps.

Favorite protagonist: I mean...

Yeah it’s Jaden. GX hooked me immediately when I started watching it because of how much I loved this boy. He’s that perfect mix of cocky and sweet when it comes to dueling because he’s confident in his own abilities, but he never stops having fun and being amazed at what his opponent can do, he cares about all of his friends and does his best to help them with their problems, he’s kind to strangers, and he has exactly half a brain cell.

I feel the gif speaks for itself, but Jaden’s dialogue when he turns around here is “I’m such a sucker for things like this! I’ll help you, ma’am!” Dorothy says “No, you’ll be late... Don’t you have a test today?” And Jaden replies with “Who cares if I’m late? I couldn’t leave a lady in trouble!” Jaden Yuki is my absolute favorite protagonist.

Favorite rival: Oh man is that a tough one. Am I allowed to pick two? It’s a hard call to make between this dumb edgy bitch-

And this dumb gay bitch

Honestly they’re tied for favorite rival in my book. I absolutely loved Chazz when I watched GX, and I thought his arc about breaking through his inferiority/superiority complex and learning to accept loss as a part of life without letting it define him was wonderfully written, and seeing him grow as a person throughout the show just made me feel happy for him. Shark... I really thought I wasn’t going to end up liking Shark at first, but god he just gets so much better as Zexal goes on, starting out as this mean spirited middle school bully in episode one, and slowly ending up as Yuma’s boyfriend closest friend. It’s incredible to look back at how Shark acts when he’s first introduced and compare it to... season 3, I think it was, where just hearing the words “Yuma’s in danger” is enough to send him running to his rival’s side. Chazz and Shark. They are my favorites.

Favorite BFF: Him

Crow Hogan is an absolute treasure and he was my favorite part about watching 5Ds. This little bird man first gets introduced by stealing cards for his kids and clowning on Sector Security, and he’s a source of so much good throughout the show. Excellent best friend (technically brother but I’m counting him), wonderful father, 10/10 person all around. Plus the fact that the only thing stopping him from berating his bitchass brother even more was Yusei having to literally pick him up and pull him away is definitely extra points in my book. What a powerful little bird. His only weakness is people that are taller than him, which is unfortunately most people.

Favorite GFF:

Yuzu. Have I actually watched Arc V yet? No, but I’m still picking Yuzu for my number one here. Tea and Tori are just awful characters, I’m neutral towards Alexis, and Akiza... Did have potential to be something interesting on her own, despite how uncomfortable she made me in seasons 1-2 of 5Ds, but her relevance is alllll downhill from there. I’ve seen one clip of Yuzu yelling at a man eating pie and calling him a 100th rate duelist, and that was all I needed to know she would be my favorite. (Clip here)

Favorite villain: Oh boy

The fuckin carrot is my favorite villain, and I say this as someone who fully believes he didn’t deserve to be in the last episode. Vector did some fucked up shit in his day, and he only continued to do fucked up shit in Yuma’s day, but I have to say he was pretty effective when it came down to his goals. He got things done and went right for what he wanted by taking direct action to seize Don Thousand’s power, and he manipulated Yuma perfectly by preying on his kind nature and love for Astral to use him to further his goals.

...Plus I mean just look at his subbed dialogue God he’s such a slut. Evil slutty alien.

Tl;dr Vector was a horrible horrible person, but he was a good villain, and he was so entertaining whenever he was on screen that it was impossible not to like him. Still kinda wish he got what he deserved though, and what he deserved definitely wasn’t another chance.

Speaking of Don Thousand though, can we talk about how unfairly pretty he is? If I had to pick a runner up villain in terms of looks alone, it would definitely be him.

God it was not fair how pretty the big bad of Zexal was. He’s fucking gorgeous, and in my opinion, the best looking villain at the very least.

Favorite card: *Sweats in Duel Links* Favorite? There’s so many cards out there to pick from, but since I’ve already broken the rules with my two favorite rivals, I’ll be picking two of each card type: Spells, traps, and monsters. One for the aesthetic, and one for how often I make use of it.

First up, the Aesthetics group

What can I say, Vampiric Koala is such a cutie, Dwimmered Path has some really pretty card art, and Rainbow Life is an eternal flex on any heteros I may encounter while playing Duel Links. Nothing better than a gay trap card.

Now for usability

Dragon Knight of Creation is suuuper helpful in any dragon themed deck and has a permanent slot in my decks for Mokuba and Kaiba, PoG is always a fun way to boost up weak monsters to ridiculous heights, and Dark Bribe just lets you block your opponent like “Okay I know you wanna hurt me but I will let you draw another card if you do not do that thing”, and they can’t refuse you.

Favorite episode: I’ll be copying cipher’s format here and picking one for each series, but this will still only total out to five for me since I’ve yet to watch past Zexal ^^; Soon I’ll get to Arc V! One day...

Season 0: Episode 16: Turnabout by a Hair's Breadth - The White-Robed Crisis I’m a sucker for my son Joey, and this was a good Joey episode about him and his sister, plus it was nice seeing that doctor get what he deserved :) Duel Monsters: Season 5, episode 12-14: The Deciding Match for Duel King - Yugi vs. Leon/Golden Castle of Stromberg/KC Grand Prix Ends Probably a weird batch of episodes to pick, I know, but a lot of DM was kinda forgettable to me, and these are some of the few episodes I do recall. I just... really felt for Leon’s situation, and I wanted good things for that boy. I care him. GX: Season 3, episode 34: Dark Fusion! Inferno Wing!! Jim. Jim Jim Jimmmmm. This was the episode that finally made me understand why saviorshipping was a thing because it hits you with all these memories Jim has of Jaden and shows how they bonded before all this Dark World shit happened, and the whole thing was very emotional. 5Ds: Season 4, episode 2-3: Recollections, Entrusted with a Friend's Dying Wish God Crow, my precious bird son. I really liked the backstory they gave him, despite how much it hurt. It was probably the best character development he got in the whole of 5Ds, and let you see a side to him you probably wouldn’t expect. I loved watching him get his justice. Zexal II: Season 2, episode 5-6: Alito the Silent Fighter - Reunion of the Passionate Duelists!/ Be Revived! The Duelist Soul That Transcends Life!! I picked these episodes for Nistro and Nistro alone. He was one of my absolute favorites in Zexal, and seeing how well he and Dextra were doing was good for the soul. Just look at this good lion man right here.

Look at him!!!

Favorite decks to use: Elemental Heroes, Aromages, Red Eyes, Six Samurai, and Crystal Beasts.

Fusion, Ritual, Synchro, Xyz, Pendulum, or Link: I’m a simple girl, I love fusion/tributes for how easy they are, but synchro can be pretty fun, too

Years in fandom: ??? Even I don’t know the answer to this one, friends. I used to be in the fandom when I was in middle school, wrote/read a few fanfics here and there, but then I fell out of it for... Well I’m 22 now and only got back into things 6 months ago? I started rewatching the abridged series of Duel Monsters in March, and from there I just wanted to consume actual Yugioh content and never went back.

Who am I tagging: @finding-fallen-petals @dizziedaikonn @chazzaroo Go wild y’all

#ygo tag meme #ygo dm #ygo gx #ygo 5ds #ygo zexal #jaden yuki #judai yuki #chazz princeton #jun manjoume #shark kastle #ryoga kamishiro #crow hogan #yuzu hiiragi #ygo zexal vector #ygo zexal nistro #gauche #probably the longest post ive ever made on this blog jesus christ

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drunkkenobi · 5 years

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BuzzFeed Unsolved Episode Views

So, tumblr, I’ve been doing a Thing for the past 6 months. I’ve been tracking the view count of every single BuzzFeed Unsolved episode in a spreadsheet. Why? Well, it all started when I got curious as to what their most viewed episodes were and an innate desire to understand how the fuck YouTube works. After being mildly surprised by what I found, I looked them up again a couple weeks later (by which 2 episode of True Crime Season 5 had aired) and then decided to start keeping track of them all. At first, it was week-by-week during the True Crime season to see how the new episodes did and if that drove people to watch the older episodes. After TC ended, I did it less often but still checked back in every 2-4 weeks and now I’m doing it again for SPN s6. I realized yesterday that it’s been 181 days since I started, so I thought it’d be a good time to see how much each episode has been watched in the interim.

Full caveat: I am no actual statistics expert in anyway, this is just some stuff I’m doing for fun.

So, first off, for the purposes of this, I split up the episodes into pre-TC s5 and after. I don’t think it makes sense to lump them all in together since newer episodes get more views and all that jazz. That means for this first part, the newest episode I included was the Black Dahlia Revisited episode from January 2019.

Additionally, I round down when looking at YouTube’s view count. For instance, if an episode has been watched 5,499,999 times, I input it as 5.4 million views. (Same with an episode that has 5,400,000 views). So everything is rounded and approximate.

Now, onto the things I found out!

Over the past 6 months, the 80 episodes of BuzzFeed Unsolved were watched an additional 1.36 million times, on average.

True Crime episodes were watched on average 1.23 million more times, whereas Supernatural episodes were watched 1.48 million more times.

At that point there were 39 TC and 41 SPN episodes.

The episodes that gained the most views were, in order, The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel (3.5 million), The Haunting of Hannah Williams (3.4 million), and Three Cases of Ghosts and Demons (2.9 million). Episodes that were already in the top 15 most watched saw the biggest average gain, with the exception of The Bizarre Death of Elisa Lam, their most viewed episode (20.9 million views as of September 30, up from 20.1 million from April 2). Hannah’s House is an exception here as well, since it started much further down with 6.7 million views and now has 10.1.

I cannot overemphasize how popular Hannah’s House is. Despite only airing last November, it has more views than every episode aired since Goatman, not to mention many before that. It’s their 22nd most viewed episode ever, out of a current total of 93. People really enjoyed Shane high on Dayquil and the Ovilus fucking with Ryan.

The episodes with the fewest gains are the original Black Dahlia, Dyatlov Pass, and Hinterkaifeck. (.4, .4, and .3 million gains). On average, the older Shane-less episodes gained the least, with a few exceptions (Men in Black and Tupac fared better than the average).

Speaking of Tupac, I am forever amused that his episode has almost twice the view counts as Biggie’s. (12 vs 7.1) Poor Biggie.

Most of their alien episodes saw a slight bump this summer after the Area 51 raid was announced, which amuses me greatly. The one exception was the Pentagon UFOs episode, which I’m convinced has TERRIBLE SEO, as it never, ever shows up in the “other videos you might like” sidebar on BFU episodes. (This is how I usually get my view counts, it’s easier than clicking on every single episode every single time)

22 episodes have 10 million or more views.

Alcatraz was their most popular season 4 TC episode, by a lot (9 million views. #2 was Bobby Dunbar with 7.4. Fan-favorite Forrest Fenn has 5.4, so figure that out)

As of September 30, 2019, the ten most viewed episodes of BuzzFeed Unsolved are: Elisa Lam (20.9), 3 Cases of Ghosts and Demons (19.1), Exorcism of Anneliese Michel (17.4), The Illuminati (17.3), Men in Black (13.6), DB Cooper (13.6), Goatman’s Bridge (12.4), Queen Mary (12.3), Tupac (12), and The Axeman (12).

Now, for the newer episodes! There’s not as much to say on these, since they haven’t been out as long, but some things to note:

The 13 episodes of BFU that have aired since March 22nd averaged a 4.4 million view count. Not including the 3 that have aired in the past two weeks, the average jumps to 4.8.

The episode that had the most views in the week after the premiere was The Watcher. It’s their most popular of this bunch, with 7.4 million views. All Hail The Watcher, I guess.

The sponsored Supernatural episodes (La Llorona and Annabelle) both have 5.7 million views, which is pretty good and probably a strong point in favor of them returning to this well when they’re in between seasons. (and maybe bring back Curly. Please bring back Curly.)

Some other fun facts:

The 10 least watched episode of BFU are the following (I am not counting the 3 newest episodes here since they’re too new to hold a lot of weight): Texarkana Phantom Killer (4.5), Litveniko (4.3), Tombstone (4.1), Shark Arm Murders (4.1), Moon River Brewing (4), Florida Machete Murder (4), Pentagon UFOs (3.7), Yuma Prison (3.7), Walter Collins (3.7), Bugsy Siegel (3.3).

Most of those are newer, which makes sense. What does not make sense is why people don’t rewatch Yuma Prison all the time like I do. Do you not enjoy watching Ryan cry because of bats?

I added up the total views for both True Crime and Supernatural and divided by the number of episodes to see if one was more popular than the other:

The average True Crime episode has been watched 7.85 million times, whereas the the average Supernatural episode has been watched 8.22 million times. So, Supernatural, but it’s close enough that it’s probably not very significant. (Again, I’m not a statistics expert)

BUN now has 3 million subscribers! I don’t have the exact number when I started this, but it was around 2.3 I think. So congrats to the BUN team.

One last thing I want to note, is that I have no idea what is considered successful or not in terms of view-counts for this show so I would try not to draw any conclusions there. 3.3 million views is still a lot (it’s more than any of Polygon’s Unraveled series has, for a comparison). Also I wish I could tell you if Trending mattered but honestly, I can’t figure it out. YouTube is an enigma.

Anyway, I have no idea if anyone finds this as interesting as I do, but if you do, my spreadsheet is on Google Sheets here for viewing. You’ll notice I actually have an earlier column of view stats from March 13th, but as I did not have the exact view counts for the episodes with 10+ million views, I didn’t count it for this. (You have to individually click on each episode to see the precise view counts, otherwise YT just rounds down to the nearest million)

Feel free to send me asks if you have any questions. I cannot emphasize enough how much I am not a stats expert and that I’m not trying to make any big sweeping statements about anything. I just like data entry and have a lot of downtime at work.

#buzzfeed unsolved #my post #bfu view counts #yes I do this for fun #my spreadsheets

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