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2. YouTube is mostly not in English Our current best estimate is that 32% of videos where we can detect spoken language are in English, with 10.5% in Hindi, 8% in Spanish, slightly fewer in Portuguese, and just over 6% in Arabic.

chart of spoken languages detected on YouTube and their relative frequencies
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3. Most of YouTube doesn’t get many views Odds are, the videos you watch have >1,000 views, but those videos were just 13% of our sample. 4.9% don’t have any views at all. Even more stark is when it comes to comments and likes — 72.6% have no comments and 88.7% have no likes.

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• researcher at @idpiumass.bsky.social and media cloud • studying the youtube algorithm and civic social networks • listening to phoebe bridgers • ze.vin / twitter.com/z3_vin
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