>>105055113I mentioned this when it dropped. There is no "figuring out how it works" but it surely helps to AVOID EVERY MISTAKE and that Mori short did everything perfect.
Pic related is my attempt to explain by posting the reduced version of the short with each of the key moments
>Frame 1: big boobed nonchalant tsundere looking bombshell>1st second: she's getting closer>2nd second: she bumps on what's supposed to be "you">4th second: she's giving "you" attitudeNotice by this time 20% of the short is already gone and the audience is still trying to guess what's going on with zero hints or clues.
Anyone that invested this much time instead of just scrolling off is hooked already
>5th second: she's pointing at "you">7h second: she's ordering a very confused you down with the universal gesture of "submit! kneel!">9th second: the plot thickens, a mystery ticket is disclosedthis brings the short to it's halfway point. I don't know exactly what's Youtube's threshold for how much of a short must be watched to mark it as "good" (as opposed to one scrolled away immediately, marked as "bad") but halfway into a short can't be anything but good
>10th to 17th seconds: the subject matter of the short, the advertisement of the eventThis part might even have resulted in a pause or a rewind for people to catch on the details of whatever is being shown, adding to the positive signals used by the algo
>final second: the "goofy run", a gimmick that prevents you from scrolling away before it endsEverything in this short was done to keep the person glued instead of scrolling away. I don't know if that was on purpose or a bunch of stuff thrown together that ended up working but the end result speaks for itself.
Funnily enough, that's exactly why Kumarine has 120M views, same idea
>keep the person glue, don't let them scroll away too soon 