• Chozo@kbin.social
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        7 months ago

        It’s because after a certain point, YouTube stops updating the view counts in real time. Some other stats (such as likes) will still update, though.

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        7 months ago

        Exactly, thank you. I get what the massive appeal to the game is. I’ve played all the GTAs (yes I’m old), but something is fucky if it has that many updoots and not even 100k views (at the time).

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          Views don’t update in real time but likes do. Always happens with big videos like this. It’s something to do with YouTube reconciling the view counts across multiple servers, which gets very difficult with large numbers. It’s a bit easier for them to create a stable like count when each user can only like it once, so they’re essentially adding that user to a list and then counting the length of the list.

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      7 months ago

      YouTube probably updates views on a periodic basis and likes in realtime.

      My guess is you’ll see views as higher than likes once activity dies down and the latter catches up to the former.

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      You’re looking at the sequel to the game that is still within Steam’s Top 10 active player count, 8.5 years after its release.

      https://steamdb.info/app/271590/charts/

      People have been speculating on GTA6 for well over 5 years at this point, it’s no surprise this announcement is popular.

    • Skipcast@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      The video was up early with a premiere scheduled, so people could start liking it before the video was available.