>>4027576>>4010784 unfortunately, i'm unable to reproduce this result. i downloaded the chat log using xenova/chat-downloader (please note that i added a space between 'youtube.' and 'com' prevent the video from embedding):
% chat_downloader --message_type all --chat_type live
https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=QdG2fpj1ybk > catshark.log
i used traditional unix command-line string processing techniques to analyze the log. i found 6,443 unique members who appeared in chat at all:
% grep -E '\| \(Member|\| \(New\ member' catshark.log |cut -d: -f2 |cut -d\| -f2| sort -u|wc -l
6443
227 of them joined during the stream:
% grep -E 'Welcome to (MemberShrimp|the Shark-Side)' catshark.log |cut -d: -f2|sort -u|wc -l
227
he claimed there were over 380,000 chat messages, but i only received 99,378:
% wc -l catshark.log
99378 catshark.log
i would like to know the details of how his methodology differs from mine. i have showed all the commands needed to reproduce my results. unless the theory is that youtube deleted 73% of the messages, randomly, and that those randomly-deleted messages somehow removed all messages from 80% of the members he saw—a greater proportion than the proportion of messages removed—i do not think the chat log available right now is compatible with his claims, and certainly does not support them.
