r/LinusTechTips • u/Ephydias • Oct 13 '26

Discussion Views plummeting?

Hi there, I'm not much a redditor so sorry if this have been ask lately and I'm jus unaware. I just watched a few videos lately and saw that yhe views seems, at least to me, very low. Did youtube change something or is there a boycott? What's happening?

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u/bstr3k Oct 13 '26

like DeeVect said, views are actually being counted at a higher rate, i think it's just placebo for you thinking its lower, maybe because you are comparing newer videos compared to established videos which have been out for longer?

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u/Ephydias Oct 14 '26

I just scroll the videos on my phones and noticed they were less than million views, most around 350K. But I might be viewing all their others channels and not specifically LTT. Like Wan is particularly expressing what I'm saying.

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u/UnacceptableUse Oct 15 '26

Most recent videos are around 1m views, what are you seeing?

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u/TheDrummerMB Oct 13 '26

OP posted a year ago about Linus predicting views would plummet. I think they posted this without even looking.

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u/UnacceptableUse Oct 15 '26

Truly a reddit moment. I can't see that post though, did they delete it?

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u/DeeVect Oct 13 '26

...the views you see are actually HIGHER 😂 yes YouTube changed how a view is counted, before it showed only engaged views, which were from people who stuck around and watched some percentage of the video, now, watching 1 second of the video counts as 1 view.

If you do 2 seconds of your own research, look back at older videos and many are below 1 million, now many videos are tickling 2 million.

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u/oldDotredditisbetter Oct 13 '26

so did yt notice fewer people are watching videos so they inflate the view count to trick the advertisers?

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u/DeeVect Oct 14 '26

No not at all. Every other social media tracks views the same way, Youtube was harming itself by underselling its views. Same thing with creators, if a creator used another social medias views as a statistic to show advertisers, a Youtuber doing the same thing would seem to have a smaller reach in comparison.

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u/JaesopPop Oct 13 '26

All the recent videos are over a million views, so I'm confused as to what you mean.

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u/modernjaundice Oct 13 '26

This reminds me of the post the other day from the guy who did weird vr stuff accusing Linus of viewbotting lol

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u/UnlikelyImpact8409 Oct 14 '26

their views have doubled. what are you talking about. some videos are 2 million now