David Wegmann
daweg.bsky.social
David Wegmann
@daweg.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Computational Communication Science, Online Videos, Aarhus University
(He/They)
Our sample approximates the Danish population in age, gender, and education, but is not representative. We only received data donations from people who use YouTube substantially. So, a lot of light YouTube-use and use from devices that are not logged into an account is not represented in our data.
April 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
PewDiePie and MrBeast are by far the most subscribed-to channels in our dataset. DR’s P3 Essensen is the only channel from a traditional Danish media organization that made it into the top 20.
April 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
You are never going to believe which video is the one watched by most of our participants!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...
April 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The most frequent language in the videos Danes watch on YouTube is English. We found almost 80% of the videos with detectable language to be in English and around 16% to be in Danish. These numbers must be taken with a grain of salt due to the way we measured it but they paint an undeniable picture.
April 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
All data donors combined have watched almost 19 million videos on YouTube over the course of the last 15 years. 3 million of these videos were advertisements.
April 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
A study of this size necessarily is a team effort, and I was among those who dove into the donated data. Here are a few highlights of what we found.

The donated data contain watch histories, on-YouTube searches, subscriptions, and commenting behavior.
April 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Find the talk ‘Feelings are Facts’ on why privacy is more than making data inaccessible here: media.ccc.de/v/38c3-feeli...
Feelings are Facts: Love, Privacy, and the Politics of Intellectual Shame
A debut of new research and analysis, focused on emotions and the affective register—love! shame! intimacy! What happens when we put lov...
media.ccc.de
December 31, 2024 at 2:23 PM
That looks super cool! How long does it process an individual image on a gpu large enough for the model?
…asking for a friend with many, many images 👀
December 20, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Could you add me, too?
December 20, 2024 at 7:15 AM