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2022 Year-in-Review
🕑 Added 2022-12-30 20:27:52 +0000 UTCHello everyone! Sorry for being missing in action for the past few weeks. I'm finally settled in my new apartment in Washington DC after 2 years abroad in Egypt. I thought I'd share a few stats from 2022!
Subscriber Growth: 170K new subscribers! We officially passed half a million subscribers in 2022, which is so exciting. I feel like that officially makes RFB a "big" channel. I hope we can keep growing next year because I'll be releasing two important religious-literacy-boosting series on Hinduism and Islam respectively.
Views: 18.6 Million total views
My favorite video: Why Humans Evolved to Play Music: I'm hopelessly in love with the cognitive scientific study of religion. The field is so fascinating. The research is so cutting edge. I produced this video in collaboration with my friend Dr. Connor Wood, who studies CogSci, and every moment of developing this video was a joy. It didn't go viral or anything...but I'm happy to have introduced a bit of CogSci to the audience.
Daoism and Buddhism series: In 2022 we launched the Intro to Daoism series. Episodes 1 and 2 have already been released, with Episode 3 on its way next month! The Buddhism series continued with Buddhist Meditation, Pureland Buddhism, and Buddhist Hells. Intro to Tibetan Buddhism will be published early 2023.
Highest performing videos:
Buddhism Has a Lot of Hells: This surprised me. For whatever reason, I thought this video would be a niche addition to the Buddhism series. But the YouTube algorithm blasted it out to the world, and the video exploded in growth. Now over 1 Million views. The awesome side effect? It directed tons of views to the other Buddhism series episodes. The Pureland Buddhism video originally had reached a plateau, but suddenly started growing again after the success of the Buddhist hells video.
Camel and the Eye of the Needle: This didn't surprise me. I had a hunch this video would perform well. I set out to debunk a very common myth about this passage from the Gospels, and I hope I did my little part debunking it!
Thank you all for your continued support. It means so much to me and really keeps the channel on a firm foundation. Here's to 2023!
Sincerely,
Andrew
Comments
Tammy Casanova
I want to rewatch some of these videos. I hope 2023 brings you and yours all the best.
witchdub
My favourite video of yours was 'How Altruism Evolved in Humans'. So. Damn. Interesting! One of the best and closest reasons for the purpose of religions I've ever heard.
