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Alkaline batteries are obsolete — but not for the reason you'd think
LongScience & Technology
Published Oct 30, 2026
Views
2M
Likes
54K
Speed /h
34K
+24h
+555K
Early catch
Updated 05:40 PMBeat 90% of videos its age, 7 h after upload.
- Vs usual
- –
- Views/h now
- 24K
- Channel size
- –
Black: this video’s views at each read. Shaded: the median to the top 10% (the board’s reach bar) of all videos of its format at the same age; dashed: their top 1%.
Views over time
Views gained each hour, UTC- Views
- 2.5M
- Best hour
- +73.2K
- At 24 hours
- 1.2M
- At 7 days
- –
65 of 65 hours read. A gap is an hour we didn’t read close enough to say, not an hour without views.
viralshooter analytics
Our calculations on YouTube API data. Not YouTube metrics.
Position
- Speed percentile
- 80 / 100
- Category percentile
- 97 / 100
- ×base
- ×1
- Channel typical
- 2M · average
Dynamics
- Phase
- steady
- Acceleration
- 0.71×
- Momentum
- ×0.28
- Decay
- 0.29
- Speed half-life
- 31d
Engagement
- Like rate
- 2.18%
- Comments per 1k views
- 2.89
- Engagement rate
- 2.47%
- Views per subscriber
- 0.77×
- Crossed a language border
- No
◆ Calculated by viralshooter from YouTube API data. Not YouTube metrics and not endorsed by YouTube.
| Region | Chart | Best rank | First seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | Category chart | #8 | Oct 31 |
| Sweden | Category chart | #9 | Oct 31 |
| Norway | Category chart | #11 | Oct 31 |
| Canada | Category chart | #12 | Oct 31 |
| Australia | Category chart | #13 | Oct 31 |
| Denmark | Category chart | #14 | Oct 31 |
| Ireland | Category chart | #14 | Oct 31 |
| Austria | Category chart | #21 | Oct 31 |
| Belgium | Category chart | #23 | Oct 31 |
| United States | Category chart | #23 | Oct 31 |
| Switzerland | Category chart | #25 | Oct 31 |
| Netherlands | Category chart | #29 | Oct 31 |
| United Kingdom | Category chart | #31 | Oct 31 |
3d
From the YouTube record
Fields of the video as the YouTube API returns them.
- Published
- Oct 30, 2026, 5:35 PM
- Duration
- 30:19
- Category
- Science & Technology
- Audio language
- English (en)
- Title language
- English (en)
- Captions
- Yes
- Definition
- HD
- Format
- 2D
- License
- Standard YouTube
- Licensed content
- Yes
- Embeddable
- Yes
- Made for kids
- No
- Age-restricted
- No
- Paid promotion
- No
- Public stats
- No
Topics
- Technology
Title and description in 1 languages
- English
Description
Innovation is sometimes funny. Links 'n stuff: Technology Connections on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/techconnectify.bsky.social Technology Connections on Mastodon: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify Have you ever noticed that I've never done that whole influencer thing? That's all thanks to people like you! Viewer support through Patreon keeps this channel independent and possible. If you'd like to join the amazing folks who fund my work, as well as folks in need in Chicagoland and beyond, check out the link below. Thank you! https://www.patreon.com/technologyconnectionsShow all
Innovation is sometimes funny. Links 'n stuff: Technology Connections on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/techconnectify.bsky.social Technology Connections on Mastodon: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify Have you ever noticed that I've never done that whole influencer thing? That's all thanks to people like you! Viewer support through Patreon keeps this channel independent and possible. If you'd like to join the amazing folks who fund my work, as well as folks in need in Chicagoland and beyond, check out the link below. Thank you! https://www.patreon.com/technologyconnections
◆ Calculated by viralshooter · all other figures from the YouTube API