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something ive been thinking about is whether youtube does any view count prediction rather than an actual literal view count and whether the views going down isnt so much legitimate views being deleted but rather the prediction algorithm correcting itself
"Experts believe that after 4 or 5 views in one day, YouTube stops adding new views to a video's view count number."
also the way it has to synchronize all the counts off different servers to one sum i guarantee isnt trivial and is bound to errors that need to be corrected later. idk i just think the mistake thats being made is watching the live views like a hawk and assuming they are Correct
from youtube itself:
"To verify that views are real and accurate, YouTube may temporarily slow down, freeze or change the view count, as well as ~discard low-quality playbacks~"
"To verify that views are real and accurate, YouTube may temporarily slow down, freeze or change the view count, as well as ~discard low-quality playbacks~"
a low quality playback is when u use the same IP address to watch a video on another device/window/browser session in close temporal proximity
sorry i genuinely think this is really interesting cause from my software engineer standpoint i cant grasp how it came to be a fandom concensus that youtube views are an Accurate Measurement at all times and then it intentionally deletes them off ur kpop video when in reality
theres a lot of things at play and the views that are deleted are not what youtube considers a good quality legitimate view. and if youtube didnt have these systems in place, it would be so much easier get records with fraudulent views and that cant be what we want either
in short what im getting at is the views that are deleted shouldnt have been counted in the first place. we didnt so much Lose those views as much as it just being youtube overestimating the real number and then correcting it
AND AND AND if it is actually true that youtube doesnt count more than abt 5 views off the same user it is very likely that it retcons those especially w how servers would keep track locally and then synchronize and only Then see that this user has already streamed x times
this has been caro rants extrremely incoherently about the intersection of her interests and this makes sense to probably no one else. thanks for tuning in
