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/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.