z	Title	Views
2.44	Rampur Islam*c Horror Exposed: Yashoda’s Family Tragedy… yCR38NmeCpY · 2760s · crime_investigation	258,681
1.74	Ex-Muslim Unfiltered: Why I Couldn’t Stay in Islam? The… oYTJaHw4na8 · 2992s · religion_society	111,677
1.37	Operation Sindoor: When India Rained Hell in Pakistan: … Gs38SCGxPGA · 484s · geopolitics	71,715
1.13	Illegal Infiltration &Smuggling, Sandeshkali, PostPoll … efBn5kJ0snc · 4221s · politics_govt	53,388
1.01	Population Explosion का झूठ और Delimitation का सच । 14… yLEakbf5gpI · 3212s · geopolitics	46,413
0.64	Judiciary's Dirty Secrets: Anti-Hindu Discrimination, F… zv2HCSdsiJw · 4501s · law_judiciary	29,534

z	Title	Views
-1.81	Iran War Explained: The Hidden Power Game \| Why Are Chi… 6Ix6Tt4I47A · 719s · geopolitics	1,542
-1.74	Pakistani Hindu Refugees: Story. Struggle. Survival atLAW_yl70Q · 1015s · religion_society	1,672
-0.95	6 December 1992: Babri demolition, Ram Mandir and Truth… W4I42zE8qTA · 328s · religion_society	4,365
-0.83	Iran-Israel War and the Making of Nuclear Weapons by Ir… DNHWfGBfUiM · 1481s · religion_society	5,039
-0.76	22 Rules for a Hindu Living in an Islamic State। Dhimmi… 1E6So2gYgP8 · 1356s · religion_society	5,507
-0.71	All about Nida Khan__Lady D of jihadi scandal nFIGdsXAYpA · 293s · crime_investigation	5,811

z	Title	Views
2.78	The TCS Story 😱 #shorts rpk9_nXIvdM · 53s · geopolitics	14,905
2.33	भूरा बाल साफ करो लालू ने कभी नहीं कहा? #shorts #laluyad… NHTNJPcvO0Q · 173s · politics_govt	10,547
1.76	Lalu Yadav के Theaterics, मूर्ख और देहाती होने का ढोंग!… fmrAS_vkCUE · 135s · politics_govt	6,824
1.57	कर्पूरी ठाकुर को कह देना की मेरी जीप में तेल नहीं हैं �… 5wMrZDvZl4k · 125s · politics_govt	5,899
1.22	17 Years of Torture, Yet Colonel Purohit Holds No Bitte… CDdpB7oWm0k · 53s · geopolitics	4,529
1.22	TCS Nashik Hub of Religious Conversion and Womb Jihad #… rajRbU2z2mw · 114s · religion_society	4,528

z	Title	Views
-1.83	Khamenei’s Last Day 😱 #shorts #iranvsisrael #war 6mZkBzkrRmE · 23s · geopolitics	437
-1.46	The Strategy Behind the Silence: How China & Russia Ben… WCiY3qM_s00 · 21s · geopolitics	578
-1.10	The Day Cow Smuggling Stopped in Basirhat #shorts #west… XywDiNYoGl0 · 32s · uncategorised	764
-0.93	इस्लाम में महिलाओं को कितना सम्मान मिलता है #shorts #is… NFmZry3zzM0 · 105s · religion_society	871
-0.92	भगवा आतंक के झूठ के कारण हाफिज सईद ने UN में भारत को Te… wCQ6uShULAM · 69s · religion_society	875
-0.82	'They consider the invaders as their heroes'. #shorts #… HCSoVCTMz8A · 26s · politics_govt	948

Content Forensics — The Dossier

Methodology

The view_z_score field in summary.jsonl is a log10-views z-score computed within cohort (24 long-form vs 36 shorts treated separately), so it already normalises for the platform-level view-count gap. Given small n, quartile cuts were used: top quartile = 6 long-form / 9 shorts; bottom quartile = same. All comparisons below are top-quartile vs bottom-quartile within the same cohort. No cross-cohort ranking is performed. Variables examined: length bucket, topic_cluster, day-of-week of upload, title pattern (interrogative / declarative / list / how-to / reactive / accusatory), numeral presence in title, title length in chars, CTA count, age in days.

Top performers (long-form)

video_id	title	view_z	age_days	length_s	topic
[yCR38NmeCpY]	Rampur Islamic Horror Exposed: Yashoda’s Tragedy	2.438	258	2760	crime_investigation
[oYTJaHw4na8]	Ex-Muslim Unfiltered: Why I Couldn’t Stay in Islam?	1.741	224	2992	religion_society
[Gs38SCGxPGA]	Operation Sindoor: When India Rained Hell in Pakistan	1.374	375	484	geopolitics
[efBn5kJ0snc]	Illegal Infiltration, Sandeshkali, PostPoll Violence	1.129	280	4221	politics_govt
[yLEakbf5gpI]	Population Explosion का झूठ और Delimitation का सच	1.013	30	3212	geopolitics
[zv2HCSdsiJw]	Judiciary’s Dirty Secrets: Anti-Hindu Discrimination	0.638	301	4501	law_judiciary

Top performers (shorts)

video_id	title	view_z	age_days	length_s	topic
[rpk9_nXIvdM]	The TCS Story	2.778	32	53	geopolitics
[NHTNJPcvO0Q]	भूरा बाल साफ करो लालू ने कभी नहीं कहा?	2.326	205	173	politics_govt
[fmrAS_vkCUE]	Lalu Yadav के Theatrics, मूर्ख और देहाती होने का ढोंग	1.758	207	135	politics_govt
[5wMrZDvZl4k]	कर्पूरी ठाकुर को कह देना की मेरी जीप में तेल नहीं	1.568	204	125	politics_govt
[CDdpB7oWm0k]	17 Years of Torture, Yet Colonel Purohit Holds No Bitter	1.223	233	53	geopolitics
[rajRbU2z2mw]	TCS Nashik Hub of Religious Conversion and Womb Jihad	1.222	29	114	religion_society
[TnGcTkrTrEo]	Milords are not against religion, against one Dharma	1.058	240	136	religion_society
[PGNi1Zw-tA0]	India was never partitioned for Muslims?	0.703	12	81	politics_govt
[Flc5mIdH6Ug]	मुंबई ATS कर्नल पुरोहित को कहती थी देखो	0.304	225	155	geopolitics

Underperformers (long-form)

video_id	title	view_z	age_days	length_s	topic
[nFIGdsXAYpA]	All about Nida Khan — Lady D of jihadi scandal	-0.710	32	293	crime_investigation
[1E6So2gYgP8]	22 Rules for a Hindu Living in an Islamic State	-0.755	113	1356	religion_society
[DNHWfGBfUiM]	Iran-Israel War and the Making of Nuclear Weapons	-0.828	328	1481	religion_society
[W4I42zE8qTA]	6 December 1992: Babri demolition, Ram Mandir	-0.947	162	328	religion_society
[atLAW_yl70Q]	Pakistani Hindu Refugees: Story. Struggle. Survival	-1.743	183	1015	religion_society
[6Ix6Tt4I47A]	Iran War Explained: The Hidden Power Game	-1.810	66	719	geopolitics

Underperformers (shorts)

video_id	title	view_z	age_days	length_s	topic
[Q4G_3RBO0Nk]	Those masjids in Delhi from which Muslims pray	-0.622	56	25	law_judiciary
[5JF7pxPlRmE]	सोनिया ने रची Mohan Bhagwat को गिरफ्तार करने की साजिश	-0.627	239	95	law_judiciary
[s-PodvUEtv8]	The fundamental, fanatic Islamic fascism has to stop	-0.762	47	35	religion_society
[HCSoVCTMz8A]	They consider the invaders as their heroes	-0.819	55	26	politics_govt
[wCQ6uShULAM]	भगवा आतंक के झूठ के कारण हाफिज सईद ने UN में	-0.923	237	69	religion_society
[NFmZry3zzM0]	इस्लाम में महिलाओं को कितना सम्मान मिलता है	-0.929	212	105	religion_society
[XywDiNYoGl0]	The Day Cow Smuggling Stopped in Basirhat	-1.100	44	32	uncategorised
[WCiY3qM_s00]	The Strategy Behind the Silence: China & Russia	-1.464	63	21	geopolitics
[6mZkBzkrRmE]	Khamenei’s Last Day	-1.828	65	23	geopolitics

Variables that correlate with overperformance — long-form

Length 25+ minutes: 5/6 (83%) of top vs 0/6 (0%) of bottom. +83pp. The single non-25+ top video [Gs38SCGxPGA] is an 8-min reactive geopolitics piece; every bottom video is under 25 min.
Sub-15-min duration is a graveyard: bottom contains 3/6 videos under 15 min ([nFIGdsXAYpA] ~5m, [W4I42zE8qTA] ~5.5m, [6Ix6Tt4I47A] ~12m); top has zero under 8 min besides [Gs38SCGxPGA].
CTA presence: top avg 1.00 CTAs/video, bottom 0.33 (4/6 top have >=1 CTA, 2/6 bottom). 3x rate. Confound: long-form videos with CTAs are also the long-form videos that are long.
Topic mix shifts away from religion_society: top is 1/6 (17%) religion_society; bottom is 4/6 (67%). -50pp. Bottom is dominated by religion-coded explainers; top diversifies into crime_investigation, law_judiciary, politics_govt, geopolitics.
Title length: top avg 92 chars (range 82-100), bottom avg 79 (range 45-100). Top titles cluster near the 100-char ceiling; bottom contains the only short titles.
Day-of-week: Sunday uploads 3/6 (50%) of top, 0/6 of bottom. Saturday is the inverse: 0/6 top, 3/6 bottom. Saturday is also the modal upload day overall (9/24), so the channel’s default cadence is its worst day.
Age: top avg 245 days, bottom avg 147 days. Older videos dominate the top — a survivorship effect (long-form continues accumulating views), not a quality signal in isolation.

Variables that correlate with overperformance — shorts

Length >=50s: 9/9 (100%) of top vs 3/9 (33%) of bottom. +67pp. Every winning short uses the full duration window.
Sub-30s shorts collapse: 4/9 (44%) of bottom are under 30s; 0/9 of top are. The four worst shorts by z-score include three under 30s ([WCiY3qM_s00] 21s, [6mZkBzkrRmE] 23s, [HCSoVCTMz8A] 26s).
Topic politics_govt outperforms: 4/9 (44%) of top vs 1/9 (11%) of bottom. +33pp. Three of those four are the Lalu Yadav cluster ([NHTNJPcvO0Q], [fmrAS_vkCUE], [5wMrZDvZl4k]) — a single narrative arc that travelled.
Topic law_judiciary underperforms in shorts: 0/9 top, 2/9 (22%) bottom. Law content compresses badly into clip format.
Title pattern interrogative or accusatory: 3/9 of top use one of these vs 0/9 of bottom, which is 89% declarative. Small absolute count but a clean directional split.
Day-of-week: Wed+Sat 5/9 (56%) of top vs 1/9 (11%) of bottom. Sun+Mon 0/9 of top vs 4/9 (44%) of bottom.

Variables that don’t correlate

Numerals in titles (long: 50% top vs 33% bottom; shorts: 11% vs 0% — directions inconsistent at this n).
Title length for shorts (top 66.6 chars vs bottom 67.8 — flat).
CTA count for shorts (avg 0.00 top vs 0.03 bottom — channel doesn’t use shorts CTAs).
Topic geopolitics on either side (split roughly evenly between top and bottom in both cohorts).
Title pattern in long-form (accusatory and interrogative appear in both top and bottom in similar ratios).

Takeaways

Long-form below 15 minutes is the channel’s structural loss-maker. 5 of 6 top long-form videos are 25+ minutes; 3 of 6 bottom are under 15. Consequence: every long-form upload below the 25-min mark forfeits roughly a z-unit of expected performance unless it is a reactive news hit like [Gs38SCGxPGA].
Shorts under 30 seconds and over-indexed on religion_society / law_judiciary are dead weight. 100% of top shorts hit >=50s; 44% of bottom shorts are under 30s, and 5/9 bottom shorts sit in religion_society or law_judiciary. Consequence: the current shorts feed produces a lot of inventory in two formats (sub-30s + religion/law explainer clips) that consistently lands in the bottom quartile.
Saturday is the channel’s default and the channel’s worst day for long-form; Wednesday and Saturday are the best days for shorts. Long-form Sat = 9/24 of all uploads but 0/6 of top and 3/6 of bottom. Consequence: the upload calendar is misaligned with where the cohort-z evidence points, costing measurable z on the most expensive (long-form) inventory.