... well yes, actually. I just clicked on a link to a YouTube vid. Why I did it I don't know. I knew it was going to be awful and I knew it would depress me. It was terrible!

It had one and a half million views. How the hell it got that I don't know. Fiddle, well known tune, ordinary looking young woman. Dreadful, dreadful playing. Terrible 'arrangement'.
Now, firstly, I'm jealous - how did it get that many views? But secondly, from a practical point of view, what's the difference with that video, and how does one replicate it? I kind of get it when there is a strikingly attractive (to most people's eyes, not necessarily to mine) young woman playing something. People fawn over it and say how marvellous it is. The same thing seems to happen with a particular sort of gooily 'handsome' middle aged male (Andre Rieu, for instance), so it's not just young women who are creating that effect. This was a video of an ordinary looking person playing badly, as so many of these videos are. So is there something else in these videos that draws people?
I'm not going to give a link, or confirm which video it might be if people are tempted to guess. There's no need. There are hundreds of these things out there, gathering views by the million.
Meanwhile, I saw something the other day - I think someone on here may have linked to it - which was
totally brilliant and 'only' got two and half thousand views*. Now, that's pretty good, but it's not the one and a half million that the totally sh!te one got ...
* Oh, and by the way, I am totally jealous of that one, but that's because of her fantastic fiddling! 