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Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (15 children)

How does the video have 86,000 views and 2.1m likes? What am I missing?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    Everyone here is missing the point that the video has more likes than views, by a few orders of magnitude...

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 2 years 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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