
The above chart links to
a larger, interactive, and more readable version of the same chart that is updated every 30 seconds.
Until data collection has completed, you may see anomalies; give it some time and they'll work themselves out. Plot is premiere month/year versus percent contribution to all AMVs released on the .org that year. I have excluded years before 2000 because videos with a premiere date before 2000 tend to be backdated from memory and thus have a high probability of being unreliable.
There is also
another chart available that plots all years against each other, but I don't recommend it. It's too unreadable to be of any use, in my opinion.
Dataset and full query methodology available upon request.
(Also: the .org developers really need to implement a useful Web services API. Being forced to make 160,000+ HTTP requests and screen-scrape an HTML page to do these sorts of analyses is, to be frank, fucking ridiculous. And, no, a database dump wouldn't be possible. The last two times I asked for one, it took months; and besides, it'd just be a snapshot, not easily updateable.)
Anyway, I think what this shows is that the "con season" phenomenon is slowly dying out; the plot seems to be converging around the 8% mark, which is roughly what you'd get if you had equal contribution from all months of the year.
Or perhaps this means that "con season" is starting to occur
all the time, what with people starting up contests and MEPs left and right, and a few of them gaining enough prestige to level out the traditional patterns. Discuss.
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