5 YouTube Rules That Were Wrong

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i built an ai agent and fed it alex hormozi's entire youtube catalogue - 173 videos, 172 transcripts, 220 megabytes of data. the agent found 50 patterns, 9 title formulas with benchmarks, and 5 rules in my content pipeline that were statistically wrong. in this episode, i walk through each of the 5 overturned rules with the actual data behind them. title length, contrarian hooks, emotional triggers, case study structure, and pain-first openings. none of them held up. chapters: 00:00 My best video got 41 views 00:52 Rule 1 - Title length 02:03 Rule 2 - Contrarian hooks 03:08 Rule 3 - Emotional triggers 03:48 Rule 4 - Case study structure 04:22 Rule 5 - Pain hooks 05:07 What actually works - 9 formulas 06:24 The 30-60 min dead zone 06:49 Pipeline audit 07:44 What's next

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