FKN STATS
A full inventory of every video file in the FKN / Deek Jackson archive on disk: year curve, era shapes, theme vocabulary, longest and shortest, and what the data doesn’t contain. Numbers below are derived from the actual files, not from YouTube metadata.
The year curve
Episodes per calendar year. Highlighted bars: amber = the three biggest years (2006, 2007, 2008); red = the 2017–2020 trough. Each bar shows total uploads regardless of format (newz, music, live, other).
Era breakdown
Six rough phases. The classic Newz format runs at a tight 4-6 minute median through 2016, then the median triples in the recent era. Mean runtime, dragged up by 3-hour live sets, runs much higher than median.
| Era | Years | Episodes | Median dur | Mean dur |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genesis-Crisis | 2006–2009 | 1,226 | 6.6 min | 6.7 min |
| Obama era | 2010–2012 | 184 | 4.4 min | 10.0 min |
| Mid-decade | 2013–2016 | 187 | 4.4 min | 8.2 min |
| Trough | 2017–2019 | 24 | 4.0 min | 4.4 min |
| Revival | 2020–2022 | 300 | 7.3 min | 23.6 min |
| Recent | 2023–2026 | 362 | 14.3 min | 27.1 min |
Format split
Classification is approximate: based on source directory (cleaned/newz vs cleaned/other vs the Deek Jackson YouTube dump) and title heuristics. The lines between newz, music, and "other" are not crisp.
The classic FKN format: short satirical news segments, mostly 2006–2016, all-caps slogan titles, four-to-seven-minute median runtime. The genre the show built.
Songs, full live sets, recorded gigs, retrospective venue dumps. Heavily skewed to 2021 onward, but every era has some. The 2023 Mhor84 marathons live here.
Christmas specials, sting graphics, raw camera, theme stings, conspiracy clown bits, undated archive material, sales pitches, and the bulk of the 2006-2008 legacy archive (which lacks crisp newz-vs-other classification at the filename level).
Top theme words in titles
Episode counts where a title matches a theme’s keyword set. A title can match more than one theme. Music dominates because the 2021-onward music pivot pulled hundreds of song titles into the catalogue. Newz still hits hard. Bitcoin is the silent absentee, covered in its own essay.
| Theme | Episodes | Distribution |
|---|---|---|
| newz | 291 | |
| music | 283 | |
| war | 103 | |
| nwo / new world order | 59 | |
| money / banks / debt | 49 | |
| religion | 40 | |
| trump | 38 | |
| conspiracy | 27 | |
| climate | 22 | |
| freedom | 18 | |
| election | 18 | |
| ukraine | 13 |
Best-of: longest, shortest
From the duration-sample (916 files probed via ffprobe across all years). The longest five are all live performances at Mhor84 in central Scotland; the shortest are sting graphics and one-liners.
Longest 5
| Date | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-20 | The Blues Muthaz - Live at Mhor84 | 197.2 min |
| undated | 3033904203602760 8952813188386743842 n | 193.4 min |
| 2021-12-09 | Deek Jackson Live Mhor84 090221 | 193.4 min |
| 2023-07-29 | Deek Jackson & Greg Wilson live Mhor84 27/7/23 | 189.6 min |
| 2022-03-13 | Deek Jackson Live @ Mhor84 10th March 2022 | 186.8 min |
Shortest 5
| Date | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 2011-02-06 | Jesus UFO second coming Temple Mount | 24.3 s |
| 2010-05-08 | Gordon Brown meets Landless Peasants | 28.0 s |
| 2013-09-13 | FKN NEWZ VJ GFX - LOGOS | 43.1 s |
| 2024-12-09 | Saudis Buy Rights To The World cup and second coming of Jesus. | 47.5 s |
| 2006-01-01 | 02 17 2006 | 50.4 s |
Honorable mentions
| Why | Title | Stat |
|---|---|---|
| biggest year ever | 2008 — 451 episodes, dominated by the FKN NEWS ARCHIVE PROJECT legacy tree (the 2006-2008 originals) | 451 / year |
| second-biggest year | 2006 — 356 episodes, also legacy archive | 356 / year |
| thinnest year | 2018 — only three episodes survive on disk for the whole calendar year | 3 / year |
| first ever | 2006-01-08 — the catalogue’s earliest dated episode | 2006 |
Theme co-mentions
Pairs of themes that appear together in the same title. music + nwo is the largest pairing — Deek’s "love world order / world order" lyric appears across dozens of song titles. newz + war and ukraine + war are the news pairings you would expect. bitcoin appears in zero pairings.
Five surprises
Five findings that fell out of the inventory and got their own short essays.
The 2012 surprise
131 episodes in 2012 — the second-biggest year in the catalogue until 2025 broke it. The official era pages stop at 2009 but the upload data does not. Mayan apocalypse satire, Eurozone debt parodies, Fukushima-era newz at peak intensity.
The trough — 2017 to 2019
Twenty-three episodes total across three calendar years. The catalogue’s deepest hole. Climate-denial mockery is the dominant remaining theme; the rest is "Art For Sale" listings from a working musician using YouTube as a shopfront.
The 2021 revival — but different
145 episodes — back at 2012 levels. But almost none of them are Newz. The 2021 top title-words are renegade, funk, bar, monty’s, monarch, blues, mhor. The brand pivoted from news satire to a live-music documentation channel.
Going longform
Median episode duration: 4.4 minutes in the Obama era, 15.0 minutes in the recent era — a 3.4× jump. Mean is 28 minutes, dragged up by three-hour live sets. The four-minute bulletin is not the format anymore.
The bitcoin zero
Across 2,754 video titles spanning 21 years, the words bitcoin, BTC, and satoshi appear exactly zero times. Co-mentions with any of the 19 other tracked themes: zero. A finding by absence.
Verification & methodology
Sources scanned
Three video-bearing trees on the 20TB archive drive, traversed recursively:
/Volumes/20TB-FOUND/AI-DATA/_FKN ARCHIVE/_cleaned/newz/video/— the curated newz tree with paired.movoriginals and.web.mp4playable transcodes./Volumes/20TB-FOUND/AI-DATA/_FKN ARCHIVE/_inbound/yt-fkn-newz-2026-06-05/— the freshly-pulled FKN Newz YouTube dump (Bucket A)./Volumes/20TB-FOUND/AI-DATA/_FKN ARCHIVE/_inbound/yt-deek-jackson-2026-06-05/— the Deek Jackson channel YouTube dump (Bucket B, fully landed 2026-06-05; missing ~14 age-gated videos).
Plus the older curated trees: FKN NEWS ARCHIVE PROJECT/VIDEOS/ (the originals) and _cleaned/other/ (specials, songs, raw camera). The _planning/ and _quarantine/ trees were excluded.
What counts as a video
Files with extensions .mp4 .mkv .webm .m4v .mov .avi .flv .f4v .wmv over 100 KB. Excluded: .part, .ytdl, .frag, .download, .tmp, and any path containing those fragments — i.e. in-flight YouTube downloads that have not yet completed.
Dedupe rules
- Within the cleaned/newz tree, paired
<stem>.mov+<stem>.web.mp4collapse to one episode (the .mov is the archival original; .web.mp4 is its playable transcode). - Across all three trees, items with the same YouTube ID (the 11-character bracketed suffix on inbound files) collapse to one. Preference order on collision: cleaned > yt-fkn-newz > yt-deek-jackson > archive originals.
- Items without a YouTube ID but with parseable dates (YYYY-MM-DD or YYYYMMDD or "MM DD YY") collapse by (date, normalised-title) with the same source preference.
Duration estimate
Per-year and per-era medians are computed from a stratified sample of 1,253 files run through ffprobe. Years with ≤60 episodes are fully sampled; bigger years are sampled to 60. The total-hours figure (~315 hr) is extrapolated as median(year) × count(year), summed.
Caveats
FKN NEWS ARCHIVE PROJECT/ legacy tree (the 2006-2008 originals, ~1,001 files). The corrected count after the 2026-06-07 refresh, with all known sources scanned and AppleDouble shadow files (._FILENAME) stripped, is 2,754.ZO###### episode-code pattern or live under VIDEOS/_theastronomers.org/ and are tagged as theastronomers, not fkn_jackson, in the brain.db ingest. They are counted in the totals here but should not be conflated with FKN Newz proper._cleaned/ tree.Reproducibility
The Python scripts that produced these numbers live alongside the page in fkn/stats/_data/ on the working tree. They are not deployed; to re-run, mount the 20TB drive and execute inventory2.py then analyze.py. Both write JSON to the same directory.
Sources & further reading
- This archive’s parent site: FKN Archive home — the working archive of the catalogued 2006-2009 window with the canonical 191 numbered episodes.
- Era pages: Eras — narrative essays on Genesis (2006), Iraq Surge (2007), Crisis (2008), and Hopium (2009).
- Topical essays: FKN Wiki — the seven topic essays (msm, banksters, war-iraq, war-iran, bush, nwo, peak-bullshit) plus reference pages.
- Episode index: All catalogued episodes.
- The drive doc:
/Volumes/20TB-FOUND/AI-DATA/SYSTEM-DOCS/FKN.txt— the durable archive maintenance reference for this collection. - Deek Jackson on the open web: the FKN Newz and Deek Jackson YouTube channels (the source of the yt-* inbound buckets), plus Bitchute and other mirrors as catalogued in the original episode pages.