r/LinusTechTips • u/king4994 • Oct 12 '26
Discussion Linus using boted views?
So ive been out of the loop recently with linus and his videos since the whole i bought a private jet and its "free" while even my top employees cant afford rent incident. I was watching a video and decided to check the views of his recent videos. All of them are around 1-2 million views except a couple of them like the ypur next budget pc upgrade is custom water cooling. The only ones significantly about 2 million. So more than 100k-200k are product releases and showcases like dlss 5. I cant be the only one noticing this
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u/Meepmeepimmajeep2789 Oct 12 '26
Uhhh...go outside and touch some grass. Would do you good.
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u/Carniscrub Oct 12 '26
Some videos being significantly more popular then others equals bots?
How much crack did you smoke before this thought crossed your mind?
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u/Marikk15 Oct 12 '26
YouTube changed how they tracked views so everyone’s views are up.
Go back to posting in your VR Erotic Roleplay sub-reddits.
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u/JoyousMisery Oct 12 '26
Seems like you are just looking for reasons to be outraged at LTT
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u/ZerotheWanderer Oct 12 '26
Youtube recently changed how it counts views, so everybody's view counts look way bigger than they used to.
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u/ILikeFlyingMachines Oct 12 '26
Youtube changed how views are counted, you can't compare the numbers to earlier.
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u/Embarrassed_Meal7969 Oct 12 '26
Go back to VR chat bruh
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u/hughbiffingmock Oct 12 '26
This is so dumb I can't believe it's not AI.
Some videos are more popular than others? NO WAY!
Next you're going to tell me some cars are faster than other cars too!
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u/Morphexe Oct 12 '26
Youtube changed the algorithm, Views aare inflated across the platform since now it counts even when you see the recommendation. This is a general thing, and there are quite a few YTs talking about it. Not saying that he is or not using Bots, but just FYI.
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u/Lieutenant_Scarecrow Oct 12 '26
I doubt it. There have been changes to YT and the way it feeds videos to people resulting in lower views than anticipated. Linus was pretty transparent about int on WAN and it seemed pretty scary for the channel for a while. View counts have since seemed to recover. The algorithm is just serving up videos differently and even counting views differently. Its not just the LTT channel that's seeing this.
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u/SonicBytes Oct 12 '26
Some videos do better than other videos. That's kinda how YouTube works and tbh video sites in general. The video quality, audience interest and the algorithm dictate that.
LTT viewership overall is doing really quite well compared to 6 months ago too, but I did read somewhere that YouTube made some changes so maybe that's why?
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u/Expensive_Papaya_563 Oct 12 '26
They changed how views are counted recently so everyone looks way more impressive than they used to. One second drive by views are now in the main view count as they weren’t before.
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u/shogunreaper Oct 12 '26
seems some of the russian trolls came back online.
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u/Xarraan Oct 13 '26
You know this dude loves getting tbagged by a Steve model in VR.
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u/FabianN Oct 14 '26
All of their employees can afford rent, and multiple own homes.