discord with roughly 30 million daily users getting 1.4 billion views on their video is pretty funny
‘‘youtube explained’’ channels in a few days: ‘‘THIS was THE FASTEST video to get 1 BILLION VIEWS!!!!!!1!!!’’
did you consider that maybe every single person in china might have bypassed the bans in order to watch it though
so cool for 20% of the world population to tune in to the announcement of discord lootboxes 🥰
youtube not having protection against that is pretty funny
my theory is that discord is specifically exempt because of their “watch together” feature where they partnered with youtube to have a special feautre where people can watch video synced together on VC. perhaps as part of that, views in those embeds actually get counted.
there’s a lot of people saying that the video was view botted, but if you hovered over the card at the bottom a video would pop up that would play on loop,
so your theory makes sense in this context i suppose
that one person who watched the video 1.37 billion times: