The untold story of the clones: content-agnostic factors that impact YouTube video popularity

Video dissemination through sites such as YouTube can have widespread impacts on opinions, thoughts, and cultures. Not all videos will reach the same popularity and have the same impact. Popularity differences arise not only because of differences in video content, but also because of other null factors. The latter factors are of considerable interest but it has been difficult to accurately study them. For example, videos uploaded by users with...