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bafb79c4 | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +1 
 Very esoteric nerd thing: Being the (apparently) very first person to watch an MKBHD video because it was uploaded literally seconds before you saw it

(for those who don't know MKBHD has something like 17 million followers on YouTube, so being the first in the queue to see something is pretty rare)

What do I get for this? Nothing! But it was still kind of wild.

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/026/255/118/688/047/original/5cc2aae343085255.png
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They call me Scary Dave | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @c8565328 First! to comment.
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Jorge Candeias | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @c8565328 not to pop your bubble or anything, but youtube famously counts views with a certain delay (I think it has something to do with having to integrate the stats generated in different servers, as the one that serves you that video is unlikely to be the same that would serve it to me, f.i.), so odds are you were not the first one (where would all the likes come from if you were?) but only one of the first.

Yeah, I 'm fun at parties.