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    "name": "Minnesota YouTube Creators: September 17, 2026 snapshot",
    "url": "https://joshliljenquist.com/minnesota/youtube-creators/",
    "snapshot_date": "2026-09-17",
    "date_published": "2026-09-17",
    "geographic_scope": "Creators and creator groups with a verified current residence, creator base, or professional base in Minnesota",
    "measurement": "Total displayed subscribers across official creator-controlled YouTube channels whose ownership is reproducible from public evidence",
    "important_limit": "Totals aggregate channel-level subscriber counts. They are not unique people, and most public YouTube counts are rounded.",
    "publisher_disclosure": "Josh Liljenquist publishes this website and is included in the ranking. The same channel-control and Minnesota-eligibility rules are applied to every listed creator or creator group.",
    "candidate_creators_researched": 42,
    "ranked_records": 15,
    "partially_verified_records": 11,
    "geography_review_date": "2026-09-27",
    "original_research_summary": {
      "current_minnesota_creators_identified": 26
    }
  },
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    "rank_metric": "Sum of displayed subscriber counts for qualifying channels whose creator control is reproducible from public evidence",
    "geography_rule": "Current Minnesota residence, creator base, or professional base is required. Birthplace, former residence, property ownership, filming location, or family ties alone do not qualify.",
    "channel_rule": "Primary, secondary, live, podcast, niche, or alternate channels are counted only when public evidence establishes creator control. Private account access is excluded for every creator.",
    "group_rule": "A shared channel is assigned to the creator group, not separately to every member.",
    "unresolved_rule": "A record is not ranked when current Minnesota eligibility, channel ownership, or the material channel set remains unresolved.",
    "rounding_rule": "Publicly rounded YouTube values remain approximate; the dataset does not claim hidden exact counts."
  },
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          "subscribers": 1900000,
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      ],
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      "official_website": "https://www.makeeverything.tv/",
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      },
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