When clicking through all of my subscriptions to clear the little number that’s usually to the left on YouTube, I ended up on Markiplier’s channel and saw he uploaded a video about his dog. I literally only clicked the video because it was about dogs, and I was super surprised to see that it was trending. Even more surprising to me was at the time of me watching this video, the video had been uploaded 4 days ago and it was still somehow trending. The whole thing, even though it wasn’t a big deal, made me think about how YouTube works and what videos YouTube cares about. Markiplier has a lot of subscribers so it’s more likely he would be trending, but the trending videos I normally see are music videos or movie trailers so I still thought it was strange. I thought maybe because the video was about a cute animal it might get it more views to push it into trending. Even then, I wonder how well the video did prior to me watching it. Had it been trending for the enitre 4 days? How does trending work? I also think the whole thing is funny because his dog was in the video less than half of the time, and the rest of the video was him recommending other videos that she was in to the viewers to go watch. I’m not trying to like call Markiplier out on promoting himself or anything, especially because the video isn’t that long so of course he’s just gonna say what he has to say, but it’s still weird how this video ended up trending when it’s supposed to be about the dog but the video itself is mostly telling viewers to watch other videos about the dog.