How many views did “Everybody wants to waste your time” get?

Drew Gooden · published 2024-09-22 · TubeCount #51, played 2026-08-01

Why this one

Drew Gooden's commentary channel runs in the 1–4 million views per upload range. A September 2024 video about the industrial-scale design of content engineered to absorb your attention — infinite scroll, autoplay, frictionless time-sinks — did 8.5 million. The mechanism is self-referential: the people most likely to seek out commentary about wasted time on platforms are YouTube's most engaged, most return-visiting, most recommendation-propagating users. Meta-commentary about the trap gets amplified by the trap's own best users. Drew Gooden made a video about the machine, and the machine gave it twice as many views as his subscriber count.

How everyone did

4 players called this one. The average score was 46 out of 100, and on the thumbnail alone people were typically 3.5× off.