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DUI impact on car insurance

A DUI conviction combined with an at-fault accident that totaled your car and a one-year license suspension will have a severe and long-lasting impact on your car insurance: - **Significant Rate Increase:** After a DUI in North Carolina, your car insurance premium can increase dramatically—by as much as 358%, with average annual rates jumping from about $955 to $4,371 or more[2][1]. This is one of the steepest increases in the country. - **Mandatory SR-22:** You will likely be required to file an SR-22, which is a certificate proving you have the state-required minimum insurance coverage. This filing is necessary to reinstate your license and signals to insurers that you are a high-risk driver[3][5]. - **Policy Cancellation or Non-Renewal:** Many insurers may choose to cancel your policy or refuse to renew it after a DUI and serious accident. You may need to seek coverage from companies specializing in high-risk drivers, often at even higher rates[3][5][8]. - **Loss of Discounts:** An...

Surge and drop off of YouTube views

  Your experience-seeing a surge of views in the first day or two after publishing videos (like quick chess games or daily Wordle solutions), followed by a sharp drop-off-is a common phenomenon on platforms like YouTube, especially with short-form or trending content 3 4 5 . Why Views Spike and Then Stop Algorithmic Exposure and Seed Audiences When you upload a video, YouTube's algorithm initially promotes it to a "seed audience," typically your subscribers and viewers who have shown interest in similar content 1 3 5 . If this seed audience engages well (high retention, likes, comments), the algorithm may push the video to a broader audience. However, if engagement is average or the topic is highly time-sensitive, the exposure often plateaus quickly 5 . Trending and Time-Sensitive Content Content like daily Wordle solutions or quick chess games is often tied to a specific day or moment. Most people interested in that day's puzzle or a particular chess game will watch ...

Edit published videos = NO

  You cannot add new photos, text, or major visual elements to a YouTube Short after it has been published and started accumulating views. YouTube's built-in video editor in YouTube Studio only allows for basic edits such as trimming, splitting, and blurring parts of your video, but it does not support adding new images, overlays, or text after the video is live 1 5 .   These edits preserve your existing views and engagement, but they are limited in scope. If you want to make significant changes-like adding new photos or text overlays-you will need to create a new, edited version of your Short using a video editor outside of YouTube, then upload it as a new video 2 3 .  This means the new version will start from zero views and engagement, as you cannot transfer the existing views from the original video to the new upload 3 4 . Some creators choose to keep the original video live and upload the improved version separately, especially if the original is already performing w...