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View counts for videos created in a tennis context are almost always universally low, with many taking years to eventually accumulate view counts that surpass 1,000. Tennis rounds often accumulated counts of a few thousand or more in its early years, usually depending on the following and the status of the player/creator within the community itself. The most popular tennis matches have almost always happened between popular YTPers themselves who have the following to allow their work, and sometimes the work of their opponent if this opponent is more obscure, to be seen with uncommonly high attention.

Tennis has also become known in recent years for having a very large, much-younger base of creators usually operating on the fringes of the community, actively making large volumes of work that tend to capture and magnify the base impressions of tennis in the form of loud, amateurishly made works using a small and repetitive pool of the same shared sources that offer little to no variation of execution. The ways in which this defines the overall impression of tennis as a medium altogether tends to vary depending, but has usually served to emphasize a perceived lack of collective creativity.

Tennis has also become known in recent years for having a very large, much-younger base of creators usually operating on the fringes of the community (generally intersecting from "logo-editing" and "Object Show" focused spaces), actively making large volumes of work that tend to capture and magnify the base impressions of tennis in the form of loud, amateurishly made works using a small and repetitive pool of the same shared sources that offer little to no variation of execution. The ways in which this defines the overall impression of tennis as a medium altogether tends to vary depending, but has usually served to emphasize a perceived lack of collective creativity.

Certain rounds from certain matches have been embraced as individual works, though this is seen to come at a detriment to the perception of tennis itself as something to only understand individual videos through, rather than the progression of the matches that eventually arrive at said "rounds" within the match. In many matches, the serve is usually the most popular video as it is the easiest to engage with as a work in its own right. Occasionally a round late in the match gains the most attention, usually for its maximalist, overstimulating and overly abstract qualities producing reactions of confusion or dismissal, even from those already cultured within YTP itself. Another common critique of accessibility has often been the need for a viewer to sit through multiple videos or "rounds" of a match, and if a playlist for the match is not provided, needing to have knowledge of the existence of the match itself, where to find all the rounds and what their titles are. Since the [[YouWouldBeWelcome]] tennis archive account launched in 2019, a library of tennis matches compiled into single videos have been slowly assembled to allowed for the process of watching matches as single, concentrated videos, and properly understanding the ways in which tennis is played to be better understood by the general public.

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 View counts for videos created in a tennis context are almost always universally low, with many taking years to eventually accumulate view counts that surpass 1,000. Tennis rounds often accumulated counts of a few thousand or more in its early years, usually depending on the following and the status of the player/creator within the community itself. The most popular tennis matches have almost always happened between popular YTPers themselves who have the following to allow their work, and sometimes the work of their opponent if this opponent is more obscure, to be seen with uncommonly high attention.
-Tennis has also become known in recent years for having a very large, much-younger base of creators usually operating on the fringes of the community, actively making large volumes of work that tend to capture and magnify the base impressions of tennis in the form of loud, amateurishly made works using a small and repetitive pool of the same shared sources that offer little to no variation of execution. The ways in which this defines the overall impression of tennis as a medium altogether tends to vary depending, but has usually served to emphasize a perceived lack of collective creativity.
+Tennis has also become known in recent years for having a very large, much-younger base of creators usually operating on the fringes of the community (generally intersecting from "logo-editing" and "Object Show" focused spaces), actively making large volumes of work that tend to capture and magnify the base impressions of tennis in the form of loud, amateurishly made works using a small and repetitive pool of the same shared sources that offer little to no variation of execution. The ways in which this defines the overall impression of tennis as a medium altogether tends to vary depending, but has usually served to emphasize a perceived lack of collective creativity.
 Certain rounds from certain matches have been embraced as individual works, though this is seen to come at a detriment to the perception of tennis itself as something to only understand individual videos through, rather than the progression of the matches that eventually arrive at said "rounds" within the match. In many matches, the serve is usually the most popular video as it is the easiest to engage with as a work in its own right. Occasionally a round late in the match gains the most attention, usually for its maximalist, overstimulating and overly abstract qualities producing reactions of confusion or dismissal, even from those already cultured within YTP itself. Another common critique of accessibility has often been the need for a viewer to sit through multiple videos or "rounds" of a match, and if a playlist for the match is not provided, needing to have knowledge of the existence of the match itself, where to find all the rounds and what their titles are. Since the [[YouWouldBeWelcome]] tennis archive account launched in 2019, a library of tennis matches compiled into single videos have been slowly assembled to allowed for the process of watching matches as single, concentrated videos, and properly understanding the ways in which tennis is played to be better understood by the general public.