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Indie Game Joe: 5.8× your own normal
“I asked Counter-Strike's creator what Gabe Newell is really like” is running 5.8× what this channel usually draws at the same age — 124.7K views against a normal of about 21.6K.
Key facts
•5.8x this channel's own 90-day median — the widest it has beaten its baseline in the window.
•124.7K views vs a normal of ~21.6K, 39 days ago.
•Channel: Indie Game Joe (75.9K subscribers), tracked in the Game Dev desk.
•Measured by The Contentine Brief against the channel's own history — not a niche average.
Updated 2026-10-26 20:30 UTC
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