• Chozo@kbin.social
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        1 year 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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        1 year 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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        1 year ago

        I get that. I’m excited for it too. My point is 80k views but 2.1 m likes. How could 2.1 m people like it when it hasn’t even been viewed 100k times yet? As soon as you load the page it’s a view, so at least 2.1m people would have had to open the video to like it.

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          1 year ago

          The view counter is different than the like counter. If checked after a couple of days most likely we would say the views more than the likes.

    • Skipcast@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

      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.

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      1 year 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.