In which I use data to compare the channel growths of Shane Dawson and Jenna Marbles six months after the pair made apology videos and left Youtube for past offensive content.
I wrote a tutorial for how to scrape data from SocialBlade for this type of analysis: https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-scrape-socialblade-for-youtube-subscription-data-ec7c4bde6933
0:00 Intro
0:55 Shane and Jenna’s apology videos were very different
2:14 But there are a lot of parallels
3:46 Shane’s subscriber growth
4:50 Quick explanation of Youtube rounding
6:11 Jenna’s subscriber growth
7:17 Shane vs. Jenna (subscribers)
7:54 Total video views (and deletion of past content)
9:32 Deep dive into Jenna’s deleted views
10:48 Deep dive into Shane’s deleted views
12:16 Signs pointing towards Shane’s return
12:53 Let’s talk about Ryland and Julien
13:26 Jenna wanted to leave. Shane didn’t
14:05 This is not Shane’s first rodeo
15:02 Shane’s history of deleting past content
16:08 Shane’s track record and looking ahead
17:42 How will the Internet react when he returns?
18:41 Outro
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