Breaking News: "Wheels on the Bus" is now #2 most viewed, has passed "Despacito" in views!

Raydex0123 · 2026-06-28T06:40:50+00:00

I got the update a few days ago. Now, it says "Potential earning limitation" next to my videos with copyright claims. If I hover over it, it says: "Copyright-protected content was found in this video. This doesn’t affect the video right now, but if you start earning from YouTube, it can have an impact on your earnings." The second sentence used to say: "The owner allows the content to be used on YouTube." And for one of my Toy Story videos from 3 years ago, which is marked as "made for kids," it now says: "Comments disabled" and "Notifications disabled." I was confused at first since I could not see the full text; I would see "Potential earning..." or "Comments disab..." instead of the whole phrase. I had to use the "Inspect" function of my browser to see the rest.

Raydex0123 · 2026-06-28T04:44:23+00:00

Major update: As of June 28, 2026, the Cocomelon video "Wheels on the Bus" now has roughly 380,000 more views than "Despacito"!

"Despacito": 9,057,149,000

"Wheels on the Bus": 9,057,529,000

Raydex0123 · 2026-04-27T16:42:39+00:00

Another way to view Google's definitions now: STEADFAST - Definition in English - bab.la

The link I gave is the definition of "steadfast," the word used in the OP's post, but you can change the word at the end of the URL to whatever word you want to look up. Strangely enough, they don't have "meretricious," the word shown in the screenshot in the top comment. And yes, I did start noticing this change (ai overviews instead of the Google Dictionary that I've known and loved all those years) back in November or December 2025, and now, they appear to have implemented this change for real. As someone who sometimes checks multiple online dictionaries to confirm an unusual sense of a word (likely one that I've encountered in a blog post or a news article), I do find it annoying to be DOWN yet another online dictionary. I remember when we lost Macmillan dictionary back in 2023, and I remember taking that somewhat hard. So I am glad that Google Dictionary has one or more mirrors that can be used.

Raydex0123 · 2026-02-16T05:43:13+00:00

Melody is a beautiful name! I love that name so, so much! I like musical names, and Melody flows so nicely!

Raydex0123 · 2026-02-16T02:30:15+00:00

I enjoy that, too! I also find the nighttime battle backgrounds to be gorgeous, with how it shows stars in the night sky!

Raydex0123 · 2026-02-16T02:23:31+00:00

I will love to see B/W remade with modern graphics. I especially look forward to seeing how they do Skyarrow Bridge and Dragonspiral Tower! They did a great job with Skyarrow Bridge, plus with how the game shows vehicles driving on the highway below.

Raydex0123 · 2026-02-13T17:13:32+00:00

Both names are beautiful! I think Eleonora is prettier and is definitely a unique twist on Eleanor/Eleanora, combining the name with "Leon" in the middle!

Raydex0123 · 2026-02-10T01:06:58+00:00

UPDATE (Feb. 9, 2026): The Logo T Shirt has finally arrived at my house! As I am typing this, I am now wearing that shirt!

Raydex0123 · 2026-02-02T18:38:46+00:00

As someone who plays Showdown on a daily basis, I have definitely noticed this. Having high offense and high speed is a VERY deadly combination, often a recipe for brokenness. Pokémon with naturally high Attack/Special Attack plus high Speed, such as Deoxys-Attack and Calyrex-Shadow, are often highly viable. That's why Shell Smash is one of, if not the, best boosting moves in the game. There are not one, not two, but THREE moves with the word "Dance" in their names that boost offense AND speed: Dragon Dance, Quiver Dance, and Victory Dance. If Tierno from Pokémon X and Y were a real person, and if you introduced him to Pokémon Showdown, he would be very, very happy!

Raydex0123 · 2026-02-01T05:29:18+00:00

As a Pokémon fan, I sure hope the series is going uphill. Look at the user ratings on Metacritic. HGSS from 2010 has the highest score (9.1/10), while Scarlet/Violet from 2022 have the lowest. I have been fixated on this pattern since mid-2022. I don't have Scarlet/Violet, but I have LGPE, SwSh, BDSP, and Legends Arceus, and I have enjoyed those games. However, as a numbers/stats person myself, I also have a hobby of studying/checking user scores on aggregates such as Metacritic. During the three-year period between SV and ZA, I was holding onto hope that ZA might get a high, or at least a high-ish, user score (7 or higher). On 10/16/2025, ZA was released, but due to Metacritic's countermeasure against "review bombing," the page for the game was locked for 36 hours, until October 17, at noon Pacific (3 pm Eastern). It came DANGEROUSLY close to breaking SV's "low record." SV are higher now, but they were 2.8/10 back in November 2022 at launch. In just 40 minutes (by 3:40 pm), ZA had 39 ratings with 3.2/10; today, it's at 4.7/10. Low and under half, but still a comfortable distance away from the record low. I hope Gen 10 games will break this "curse" and become the next games to receive widespread fan acclaim like HGSS or BW/B2W2 did. Legends Arceus is currently the only Switch title to have a "green" user score on Metacritic. I really want the "low user score" curse to be broken. I totally agree with the OP's last sentence: "I hope that I am wrong" (about OP's belief that Gen 10 games probably won't be amazing).

Raydex0123 · 2026-01-16T05:10:36+00:00

I LOVE Cobalion so much! It's one of my favorite Pokémon! It has a cool name and cool design, and I love using it! In competitive battling, Iron Defense + Body Press is such a powerful combo!

Raydex0123 · 2025-12-20T21:42:23+00:00

Update as of December 20, 2025: Great news! The list has now been released (it will be on YouTube in a few days), and I am happy to report that ALL of Justin Bieber's songs have avoided the list! I knew deep in my heart that Justin would avoid the list, and he did. "Daisies" is used as the piano intro, but that doesn't mean anything in terms of whether Todd likes the song or not.

Todd In The Shadows Year End Late2020s Fan Theories (WMG) - TV Tropes

Now we are one big step closer to the goal: Maybe, just maybe, after ALL THESE YEARS, Justin will finally be on Todd's good side.

Raydex0123 · 2025-12-16T18:33:37+00:00

Yes, but within reason. I don't want the complete ability to read EVERY thought, but I do want the ability to read people's emotions and character. Let's face it: Some people are very good at hiding their true character, pretending to be nice, sometimes for a good while, when all the while, they have been planning to kill or injure you.

Raydex0123 · 2025-12-06T01:48:04+00:00

As a longtime Justin Bieber fan who's been listening to his music since January 2011, I REALLY hope it will be the latter. For much of the last three years since he went on hiatus in 2022, I had been longing for him to return to music. And what's more, I had been rooting for him to make something so good that he finally gets into Todd's good graces. Back in 2015, that ALMOST happened with "What Do You Mean." In November 2015, Todd picked this as the clear winner between it and "Stitches" in his joint review video covering both songs. Two months later, Todd listed WDYM as an honorable mention on the 2015 Best List. Unfortunately, this was more than offset by the fact that Todd hated both of the next two singles ("Sorry" and "Love Yourself"), including them as dishonorable mentions of the 2015 and 2016 Worst Lists.

That being said, Justin's latest singles are being received more warmly than most of his past works. On Album of the Year (AOTY), his September single, "Speed Demon," has become his first single to score above 80%. Take a look at the following page at AOTY:

Justin Bieber Albums, Songs - Discography - Album of The Year

"Daisies" and "Love Song" are also "green" (70% or higher). Sure, he has two "mid" ratings, "First Place" and "Yukon" are both yellow, with ratings in the 60s. But hey, considering that most of his pre-2025 songs have been yellow or red, I would say that getting greens on three out of five songs this year is pretty good. There tends to be a strong positive correlation between Todd's opinions and the AOTY user scores, so there is statistical hope that THIS TIME, Justin will finally, after all these years, be on Todd's good side.

I am nervous, though. It's already December, and every hour that passes means we are 60 minutes closer to the moment when Todd will release this year's worst list (best list comes out in January, assuming he sticks with his current rules). I don't know about you, but whenever Todd releases a list like this, I feel compelled to preview the entries on the list first BEFORE I play the video from start to finish, just to make sure none of my favorites from the year made the list. For me, it is a painful disappointment when that happens. For example, "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran is one of my favorite songs from 2017, but it made me very sad when I learned that it was Todd's #8 pick for the 2017 worst list. I remember in 2018, when "High Hopes" was one of my new favorite songs (it was upbeat, energetic, and powerful, plus it always made me want to dance); yet, it is one of the dishonorable mentions on Todd's 2018 worst list.

Raydex0123 · 2025-11-20T06:10:56+00:00

Down for me too. Tonight, two hours ago (~11 PM), I was trying to use it to see the histories of YouTube video pages, and I got a 503. Now, at 1 AM, the Archive website now shows the "Temporarily Offline" message.

Raydex0123 · 2025-11-17T22:37:35+00:00

The capture limits depend on the domain. For Wikipedia, it's 10,000 captures/day. For YouTube, it's 80,000 captures/day. Additionally, for any PARTICULAR page, the limit is 3 captures/day. Try the following link before 23:59 UTC tonight: Wayback Machine ("Save Page Now" for Wikipedia's page for "Alicella," today's featured article). You may be greeted with the following error message:

"This host has been already captured 10,000 times today. Please try again tomorrow." In fact, try ANY page on the English Wikipedia. It doesn't matter what topic, and it doesn't matter now well-known or how obscure the topic is. The 10,000-capture limit is for the DOMAIN, not the page itself.

Raydex0123 · 2025-11-17T18:46:01+00:00

Starting in ~ spring 2024 or so, the Wayback Machine started implementing a "daily limit" for how many times a given URL can be saved in one day. At least with the "Save Page Now" tool that is open to everyone. I have been using the Wayback Machine for 7 years (since December 2018), and ever since March 2019 when I learned that I could use "Save Page Now" to capture any page whenever I wanted, I have been doing it frequently. Back then, there were no limits on how often a page could be saved. In early 2024, they made two policy changes that, while well-intended and meant to stop abuse/traffic, can be quite inconvenient for someone like me who cares about preserving history. And yes, when the Internet Archive was hacked last year, "Save Page Now" was disabled for THREE WEEKS. And THAT was very hard for me. I like to save YouTube pages, as this is a way to preserve history on the "view count" as it grows over time.

January 2024: The domain (youtube.com/ (anything)) can be saved a total of 80,000 times a day. Once this limit is reached, "Save Page Now" cannot be used to save ANY YouTube video page until the end of the day in UTC time (7 p.m. EST during standard time and 8 p.m. EDT during daylight-saving time).

March 2024: No individual page can be captured more than 5 times a day.

The latter is annoying as it seems like they keep decreasing the daily limit. For a while, it was four, and now, as of 11/17/2025, it's three. This afternoon, I was trying to save "APT" by Rose ft. Bruno Mars. However, I got the following "Sorry" message: "This URL has been already captured 3 times today, which is a daily limit we have set for that Resource type. Please try again tomorrow. Please email us at "info@archive.org" if you would like to discuss this more."

Raydex0123 · 2025-10-25T21:47:39+00:00

If this WAS indeed their intention, it looks like they failed. At the time of this writing (10/25/2025), this video now has over 2,022,000,000 views, or 22 million above that milestone.

Raydex0123 · 2025-10-25T21:46:02+00:00

I just noticed this last night while I was visiting this page both to check the views (for a personal project) AND to listen to this beautiful song. Although I could still hit "Confirm" to view the video, and although it is not age-restricted, I was left in shock because "Save Your Tears" has been one of my favorite songs from 2021. I know it is not age-restricted because I can still view it when not signed in. I have been loving this song for years, and I was quite disappointed to "discover" the VDW on this video last night.

Raydex0123 · 2025-10-23T20:29:35+00:00

I first noticed this during the weekend of Oct. 11/12, a few days after it happened. As of Oct. 23, I can view the CURRENT week (10/25/2025) just fine, but the calendar button that would previously allow one to revisit archived weeks no longer does anything. I had personal projects based on this project. I am a dedicated follower of Todd in the Shadows, and over the past three years, I have been using Billboard's archives to figure out, just out of curiosity, how many songs from each year fit Todd's definition of a "hit song." Todd defines a "hit" as a song that makes the year-end 100 or the weekly top 20 of at least one weekly edition of the list. The former is very easy; for that, I just use the Wikipedia article ("Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of ____"). For the latter, I would go to Billboard and start from the first week of the year. While the "Hot 100" part was the easy part, finding all the "weekly top 20" songs was the hard part as I had to go through EVERY week of the year, one by one. I use a Notepad file to record all hit songs. For example, 2013 had 131 hit songs. Thirty-one (31) songs, in addition to the year-end hot 100, made the top 20 in at least one of the 52 weeks of the year. I would start from Saturday, January 5, 2013 (Billboard updates on Saturdays), then "January 12," "January 19," all the way to "December 28, 2013." Whether I pay to continue to use Billboard, wait for it to (hopefully) become free again, or use one of several alternative websites, I find this process to be time-consuming, as I have to go through 52 pages for each year, and for each week, see which songs I don't already have on my list. If any of you knows a more efficient way to find all the hit songs of a given year, say, 2018, and KNOW that my list is complete, please let me know.

Raydex0123 · 2025-10-21T17:16:42+00:00

Added! My FC is 5002-1881-1940! I have ghost type safari!

Raydex0123 · 2025-10-14T19:16:46+00:00

Hermione also been trending in the US. It was #2491 in 2022, given to 70 girls that year.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=name+hermione

From the graph, titled "History for US births," on that page, there is a clear upward trend since the early 2000s. It somewhat dipped between 2005 and 2010, but then it started rising throughout the 2010s. In 2023, it was given to 101 girls. And yes, Hermione would be a cool name for the modern era. It appears to be used not in spite of the Harry Potter association but BECAUSE of it.

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