Let's look at this by the numbers. I'm not going to address the claim of Pat Condell being a racist in this comment; I might look into it later but I'm not looking at it right this minute. Pat Condell's channel has 69,963,845 video views and 176 uploads. That's an average of ~398,000 views per video. Not bad. Let's look at some other youtube atheists for comparison. Laci Green's main channel has 145,801,178 views across 167 videos, an average of ~873,000 views per video. Jaclyn Glenn has 70,340,433 views across 383 uploads, an average of ~184,000 views per video. AronRa has 25,025,600 views across 442 videos, an average of ~57,000 per video. Francesca Ramsey has 29,847,973 across 287 uploads, ~104,000 per video. Kat Blaque: 10,296,934 views, 334 uploads, ~31,000 per video. Milo Stewart: 3,848,854 views, 88 videos, ~44,000 per video. Matt Dilahunty: 4,919,930 views, 147 uploads, ~35,000 per video. The Atheist Experience: 30,862,806 views, 1,103 videos, ~28,000 per video. Hemant Mehta (The Atheist Voice): 20,602,769 views, 440 uploads, ~47,000 per video. Rebecca Watson: 5,377,541 views, 427 uploads, ~13,000. The Bible Reloaded: 31,169,777 views, 433 uploads, ~72,000 per video. Thinking Atheist: 34,358,561 views, 530 uploads, ~65,000 views. Real Time with Bill Maher: 347,291,027 views, 1,257 uploads, ~276,000 per video. TJ Kirk (the amazing atheist) 359,326,030 views, 1,394 videos, ~258,000 per video. Now if we just put them in a spreadsheet and rank them by average views, here's what that list of names and numbers looks like:
Laci Green 873,000
Pat Condell 398,000
Bill Maher 276,000
TJ Kirk 258,000
Jaclyn Glenn 184,000
Francesca 104,000
Bible Reloaded 72,000
Thinking Atheist 65,000
Aron Ra 57,000
Hemant Mehta 47,000
Milo Stewart 44,000
Matt Dilahunty 35,000
Kat Blaque 31,000
Atheist Experience 28,000
Rebecca Watson 13,000
Pat Condell is indeed up there near the top of the list. Not the very top, but close. However, if we then go back through and sort this list again, but using age in years of the channel, total views, then average of views per year of the channel's existence rounded to the nearest 100,000, (weighted by column C [z-a] then column B [z-a]) this is our new list:
| TJ Kirk | 11 | 32,700,000.00 |
| Bill Maher | 11 | 31,600,000.00 |
| Laci Green | 8 | 18,200,000.00 |
| Jaclyn Glenn | 6 | 11,700,000.00 |
| Pat Condell | 10 | 7,000,000.00 |
| The Bible Reloaded | 5 | 6,200,000.00 |
| Hemant Mehta | 4 | 5,200,000.00 |
| Thinking Atheist | 8 | 4,300,000.00 |
| Atheist Experience | 9 | 3,400,000.00 |
| Francesca Ramsey | 11 | 2,700,000.00 |
| Aron Ra | 11 | 2,300,000.00 |
| Kat Blaque | 7 | 1,500,000.00 |
| Milo Stewart | 4 | 1,000,000.00 |
| Rebecca Watson | 11 | 500,000.00 |
| Matt Dilahunty | 11 | 400,000.00 |
So....does Pat Condell speak for all youtube atheists? Just by the numbers, looks like we can say "no". Does any one person on that list (or any other list) speak for all atheists? I'll let Richard Dawkins have the last word:
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