kevin zheng 🍯

@ze.vin

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phd student in information @umich.edu • political economy of social platforms • computational social science, sts, hci • @geo3550.bsky.social @idpiumass.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social ze.vin • he/they • prev umass amherst, cfpb

a 5x5 grid of the following album covers: 1. Lizzy McAlpine - Older (and Wiser) 2. Charli xcx - Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat 3. Clairo - Charm 4. Katy Kirby - Blue Raspberry 5. Carol Ades - Late Start 6. Maude Latour - Sugar Water 7. Rachel Chinouriri - What A Devastating Turn of Events 8. Abby Holliday - CRACK A SMILE COME ON STAY A WHILE 9. Madi Diaz - Weird Faith 10. Jordana - Lively Premonition 11. Katie Gavin - What a Relief 12. Michelle - Songs About You Specifically 13. Sabrina Carpenter - Short n’ Sweet 14. Remi Wolf - Big Ideas 15. Trella - expiration date 16. Grace Enger - The Alchemist 17. The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy 18. Annika Bennett - Live From Mother Earth 19. Melt - If There’s a Heaven 20. Orla Gartland - Everybody Needs a Hero 21. Odie Leigh - Carrier Pigeon 22. Sammy Rae & The Friends - Something for Everybody 23. Bonny Light Horseman - Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free 24. Caity Krone - Nose Job 25. Jo Hill - girlhood.
screenshot of an excerpt of the linked article on The Washington Post's website Kevin Zheng, a researcher at the University of Michigan, co-founded TubeStats.org, a website that tracks YouTube content statistics. With his collaborators, he published an academic article that tried to quantify the percentage of YouTube videos with small audiences. The paper found that there is "another" YouTube apart from the most popular accounts and videos — one where people "store video or share content with a small audience (from classroom assignments to video greetings for friends to simulcast religious services)" — and that this part of YouTube is more common than the ones that aim for virality.
chart of view count ranges on YouTube and their relative frequencies
chart of spoken languages detected on YouTube and their relative frequencies
muna performing at the roadrunner in boston
view of the smithsonian castle from the national mall on a partly cloudy day
boygenius - the record lizzy mcalpine - five seconds flat laura elliott - people pleaser samia - honey caroline polachek - desire, i want to turn into you caroline polachek - pang sarah kinsley - the king reneé rapp - everything to everyone boygenius - boygenius olivia barton - this is a good sign phoebe bridgers - punisher maude latour - 001 ella jane - marginalia lexi jande - closer to closure maude latour - strangers forever trousdale - what happiness is lawrence - living room samia - the baby charli xcx - crash laufey - a night at the symphony alix page - goose julien baker - turn out the lights muna - muna sammy rae & the friends - the good life searows - guard dog