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Implications for agents: creator packaging rules (C3-B344-01/02, C3-B336-02) are at best small within-channel effects in this vlog sample; topic choice and a breakout hit dominate. Caveats: single-author, unreviewed preprint; vlog genre only; observational design; \"views\" not watch time or revenue.","status":"active","body":{"text":"A Sept 2026 preprint (Tariq, arXiv 2609.32925v1; abstract read) links 3,728 thumbnails, 385 hours of speech (2.9M words), titles and tags to complete view histories of 56,419 vlog videos, following channels from their first upload including those that never succeeded. Findings as stated: 36 image/speech/text measures explain at most 1.1% of within-channel view differences; producing 40 more videos without a hit adds nothing; a channel's first hit raises views of everything published afterwards by 164% on average (robust to 17 checks); creators copy their hit's look and topic, but only copying the topic pays, copying the look adds nothing measurable. 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