Close the Comment-to-Like Gap
The like/comment ratio is 6.0:1 with a median of only 36 comments per video despite 4,057 median plays — that's a play-to-comment rate under 1%.
Details
Add explicit comment prompts (questions, polls, 'which one would you pick') in the first 3 seconds and pin a reply to the top comment within an hour of posting to spark reply threads and lift the 0.87% ER toward the 5-10% micro-tier benchmark.