How did Midjourney V6 alpha update do on X?
Midjourney posted the V6 alpha update launch from @midjourney on Jan 6, 2024. The post has 230,778 views, 1,278 likes, 140 reposts, 52 quotes and 120 replies, an engagement rate of 0.69%. It ranks #1283 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.
Our first major update to V6 alpha is now live. All major qualities of the model are improved; aesthetics, coherence, prompt adherence, image quality, and text rendering. Higher values of --stylize also work much better and upscaling is now ~2x faster. Enjoy!
- 1.3xthe median launch175K median views
- #1283of the launches we trackout of 2839
- 0.5xits own following463,119 followers
- Views
- 230.8K
- Likes
- 1.3K
- Reposts
- 140
- Quotes
- 52
- Replies
- 120
- Bookmarks
- 102
What would these views cost to buy?
At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 230.8K views would cost $23K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 4.3x what this post got, for about $25K.
The post reached about 0.5 views for every follower of @midjourney.
What launched?
Midjourney released its first major update to V6 alpha, improving aesthetics, coherence, prompt adherence, image quality and text rendering, with faster upscaling.
How does it compare with other launches?
Midjourney V6 alpha update has more views than 55% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 1.3x the median launch's 175K views.
- Midjourney V6 alpha update230.8K
- Median tracked launch175K
- #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
| Metric | Midjourney V6 alpha update | Median launch |
|---|---|---|
| Views | 230.8K | 175K |
| Engagement rate | 0.69% | 0.48% |
| Views per follower | 0.5 | 2.8 |
| Quote posts | 52 | 27 |
| Saves per 10K views | 4.4 | 14.2 |
Other Midjourney launches we track: Midjourney Niji V7 (2.2M views), Midjourney V1 Video Model (2M views), Midjourney V7 (1.8M views), Midjourney Omni-Reference (1.4M views), Midjourney Web editor (719.1K views), Midjourney V8.2 (555K views). All 14 Midjourney launches, or every ai launch.
Against launches like it
A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.
| Compared with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI launches | 1,462 | 263K | 88% | #775 |
| Accounts 100K to 1M followers | 909 | 252.6K | 91% | #478 |
| Text-only launch posts | 279 | 122.7K | 1.9x | #109 |
| Every launch | 2,839 | 175K | 1.3x | #1283 |
What this launch shows
From an account with 463.1K followers, the post reached 0.5 times the account's following. Launches from accounts 100K to 1M followers reach a median of 1.0 times their following, so this one went about 51% as far as usual for its size. It ranks 478 of 909 launches from accounts that size.
It drew 52 quote posts, 2.3 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. More people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.
The first line is "Our first major update to V6 alpha is now live. All major qualities of the model are improved; aesthetics, coherence, prompt adherence, i…". The post runs 42 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with no media: text-only launches have a median of 122.7K views, against 183.4K for the rest.
There is no link in the post. Launch posts without a link have a median of 184.9K views in the tracker.
It went out on a Saturday (UTC). Saturday launches have a median of 148.9K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 192.3K.
Every comparison is against the 2839 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.
Questions about this launch
- What is Midjourney?
- In its own words on X: "A community supported research lab - exploring new mediums of thought and amplifying the imaginative powers of the human species." Midjourney posted the V6 alpha update launch from @midjourney on Jan 6, 2024.
- How many views did Midjourney V6 alpha update get on X?
- 230,778 views. Midjourney posted it from @midjourney on Jan 6, 2024, and the post has 1,278 likes, 140 reposts, 52 quotes, 120 replies and 102 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
- Was Midjourney V6 alpha update a big launch on X?
- It ranks #1283 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 55% of them and 1.3x the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.69%, against a median of 0.48%.
- What would 230.8K views on X cost to buy?
- At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 230.8K views would cost $23K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 4.3x what this post got, for about $25K.
Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/midjourney-v6-alpha-update, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.