u/teeeea-by-the-sea

Yesterday was the last day of my 49 day challenge. I finished! I cleaned the beach every single day and made a short video which I shared on Youtube and Instagram. I noticed a few patterns and wonder if anyone else has noticed anything similar:

- The shorter a short is, the better it does. The most viewed, liked and shared videos were all less than 20 seconds long.

- Background music does not seem to make a difference to the success of the video.

- Lighting made less difference than I expected. People were just as happy to watch me pick up trash on grey, overcast days as golden hour sunset, but perhaps that was just pity watches!

- Some videos got waaaaaay fewer views for no obvious reason. Day 1 got 1055 views, day 2 got 30, day 3 got 1820. They all showed me finding crab sorting crates, carrying / dragging them home and disposing of them responsibly. No idea why day 2 did so badly. Day 48 sat at 0 views for more than 10 hours too, again, no idea why.

- Video scripts which loop round to beginning again did not make a difference in % viewed on Youtube, but they did on Instagram.

- People like songs!

- Videos where I sped up the movement by 4-5x natural speed did better than any other amount of speeding up.

- Videos where I just picked up the litter and said the item number did surprisingly well. No voiceover, no value added, just me counting to e.g. 28 in the voiceover and my hand pulling 28 pieces of plastic out of the sand.

My previous approach to Youtube shorts was to put evergreen videos (like "How long does it take an orange peel to decopose on the beach?") on Youtube and more generic daily trash haul videos on Instagram, but it seems like that might not be necessary.

Today is day 47 of my challenge. I have picked up so much beach litter and made a video everyday for the lasy 47 days. Now I'm thinking about how to celebrate when I finish. I will be havign a a couple of days off of my phone for sure. Any suggestions of other ways to celebrate?

I am ginger and burn easily. I usually just cover up with clothing, but I need spf 30 minimum for my face. I usually choose 50 if it's available. I don't trust myself to make my own spf, so that's not an option. I have a really good zinc in a cardboard tube which is perfect for surfing but a pain for anything else. Can anyone recommend an spf I can use on my face everyday which doesn't come in a plastic bottle?

In episode 3, June tells Daisy that she was born in Gilead and arrived in Canada as a baby. She describes her parents as not having diapers or milk, so presumably she was a very young baby, less than a year old. By the time of TT, she seems to be about 15. Her adopted mum isn't horrified by the idea of her having sex with her Canadian boyfriend, so I think we can reasonably assume she isn't 10. But if Agnes is June's daughter Hannah (which the flashback scene suggests) then she should be an adult, right? Because she was already maybe 3 or 4 when Gilead came to power. Even if baby Daisy was born and smuggled out within the first year of Gilead's rule, Hannah should be about 20 by the time Daisy is 15. I'm so confused!