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by simongr3dal 2829 days ago
From their about page:

"A simple way to understand this formula is that a video loses a point every 12 hours and gains a point every time it grows by 10x. In other words, a video's score will not change if its view count grows by 10x in 12 hours. These constants were tuned to keep popular videos around for about a day."

It seems like pretty flawed idea, they base their ranking on video views and age, but the video views are a result of the non-"Objectively-Ranked" videos on YouTube itself.

I think the page itself shows those results pretty clearly, it's chock full of videos with thumbnails designed to draw peoples eyes as well as text and titles designed to raise questions and imply drama in order to entice people to click.

That might be the wanted result, but I don't see how that is much different from the official Youtube trending page, except this one isn't localised/customised for your specific country.

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> except this one isn't localised/customised for your specific country.

It is. I get results in German. (And yes, they're all clickbait I'd never watch.)

I see, there's a language filter up top must've missed it the first time around.