I had been working on a statistic thread for you guys, but it got too much. TM22 finished the views for me, but I wanted to show you another interesting one. This one had been half finished for awhile, for the past two hours or so I went to finish it.

The total time, Youtube viewers spent watching the contest entries: 26 years, 133 days, 22 hours. As of 4:47pm EST, anyways.

That's including all uploads that had been officially linked in the post, or had over 300views, anything lower and I'd be just crawling Youtube. Frenetic Array and Phurion & Fluxy, and Status Quo were major contributors. Granted, these values are based on video duration and number of hits. Youtube does sometimes count partial views as hits. Even then, consider the value to be half. That's still over 13 years.

Really makes you think of the impact montages are having view wise.

That's fucking crazy.

Impressive.

That's insane, but did you count every view as watching the whole montage? From random calculations it looks like you did, and since I know I didn't watch every view from start to finish...

*Troll* Your facts are off!!!!!!!! *Troll*

No but seriously, its awesome how much of an impact H3F has on the Halo world...

people have spent 438.272215087519 years watching the laughing baby on youtube

who cares

It reflects the fame of these video entries. How can you not care about that, unless you don't care about Halo videos in general? That video you referenced is famous, comparing the statistics of this competition to a video that has 136,845,075 views on youtube is not a premise that belittles our statistics. Rather, it shows how far along this competition has come since it started.

i wasn't trying to belittle it

Alright. To answer your original question, everyone who was involved in this competition, both actively and passively, care.

Since Youtube doesn't count differently, If you watch at least I think about 45% of a video it counts towards a hit. I can't figure that out. For the sake of the contest, let's assume each hit was watched about 90-95%.