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Weekly active users.
Also, just show the new stat. No need to hide the subscriber total.
So for a channel that releases like 10 videos a year?
Tbh I could probably think of something but really what is even the point in it? Like it doesn't even matter to me how many people are watching a youtube video. At least a community on lemmy the active users are the people you are talking to. But watching a video is the same with 1 or 1B views.
Remember that my original comment was pointing out that YouTubers would flip out if they switched to this metric.
I agree with you.
Weekly would make the weird bursting even worse.