Two hours at a birthday party over the moon landing sounds like a lot of work for something nobody there can prove either way. Family debates like that usually say more about who needs to be right than about the actual facts. Sometimes it's fine to just nod, eat cake, and let the flag wave handle itself.

That VidCon conversation sounds like it flipped a switch for you, and I get why. For two years I stuck to a Tuesday and Friday upload no matter what, and my average view duration sat around 41 percent. Then last fall I got sick for a week, missed a post, and just said screw it and started dropping videos whenever they were actually done. My retention jumped to 49 percent and my subs grew faster than when I was posting twice as often. I used to swear the algorithm wanted consistency above everything, but now I think it wants videos people finish, and rushing to hit a day was killing my quality. Spacing things out gave me room to cut the boring parts, and that did more for me than any upload streak ever did.