Checking NTB's Numbers and Studying Why Videos Fail

6:30 a.m.

(a)

I was reading through this:

If you look at P and L for NTB, the Gross Income is 40b LKR, and total operating income (EBIT) is LK Rs 21b

But wait till you see (b)

6:30 a.m.

(b)

On Wiki for NTB, the figures, are Turnover/ Revenue/ Gross Income: LK Rs 16b and EBIT is LK Rs 8b

6:30 a.m.

(d)

Good that I checked these figures myself.

Unbelievable.

I mean, in order for a Wiki page's article data to be wrong, somebody must've intentionally wronged it.

Wringed the numbers up.

This is the "statement of financial position" for NTB:

Total Assets = LK Rs 337b

Total Equity = LK Rs 35b

This is for 2020

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On the Wiki it is 2019, these are the correct figures.

7:15 a.m.

I dunno, I am just deducing algebra, trying to make sense of things, just recording my opinions.

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I saw that some videos, they are on YouTube, they get a lot of views, some don't do so well.

It's worth thinking about.

Some of them, like Anthony Bourdain's SL visit, they just got 100k views.

This is pretty medium or low. Medium low.

Some videos, like Thilanga's ad campaign only got 550 views on YouTube, he spent $100 for FB ad campaign or something--I dunno wtf happened there...

Jonathan Hirshon's few videos on YouTube, a few Sapare Aude videos by David Chichinadze only get like 100 or 200 views.

Jonathan's video got 500 or something IDK.

These are very low end of the spectrum results.

This is likely because they are not entertaining.

Also, it is just 1 video. It is not a steady, constant stream of new videos.

PewDiePie makes videos all the time, so, he builds an audience, some followers, they are regulars, they get the hormones, prolactin, epinephrine, dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, whatever---

They keep watching, he gets his ad revenues, he has a brand, whatever.

Maybe even, the user identifies with this guy. They see him as 'maverick' or 'idol'.

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This must be why those videos perform so well.

People might even want to share those videos or to talk about them.

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Mark Wiens, he came to SL, he got more views than Tony, he is more apolitical.

Shenelle Rodrigo, she tries her best, she just gets 10k views or something--

flopped.

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For me, this presentation I'm making has a clear aim.

1:00 p.m.

I am feeling asleep. I doubt I took my antidepressants. So, I just took 60 mg of Mirtazapine.

In case, I overdose, know, I wanted to die.

I hope, that Jacques, Jonathan, they take things over.

They can run things. Just develop the country, go high tech, partner Jewish people with Sinhalese people.

I am sad that US$1= LK Rs 200 now.

Very shameful, the country was mismanaged.

People like me were attacked, then, the country totally crashed, now I am also helpless.

Or not, I dunno, I can probably do something later.

But I don't really care, I want to move out of SL to the US,██████████████████████████████████████████████

Or maybe I do, I dunno.

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There's people like this in Russia, China, I-Ran, in most parts of Africa, in the Muslim world, everywhere--

I hate how terribly manage the country is.

People with real qualifications are attacked.

I was attacked by all the customers.

Just because I wrote "customers".

I mean, how stupid can they get? That's who they are to me, what else did they think?

"Prospects"?

FFS.

They want to shut down high tech startups.

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They can't even speak English, you say something in English, they don't understand what you're saying. That's what this was all about.

People in the US are thinking this place is a swamp, they're trying to put sanctions on SL next.

We're just going to war with them (criminals) for life.

It won't end.

I H word them.

Thilanga will be talking to them next time.

Gotabaya, Shavendra, they'll do it.

No matter what, they're going to pay for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBWmkwaTQ0k&ab_channel=Shout%21Factory

1:30 p.m.

(b)

It's not just Lal, it's his whole FAMILY!

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https://youtu.be/N_JUATK_-hA?t=3