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[–] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Views don't update in real time but likes do. Always happens with big videos like this. It's something to do with YouTube reconciling the view counts across multiple servers, which gets very difficult with large numbers. It's a bit easier for them to create a stable like count when each user can only like it once, so they're essentially adding that user to a list and then counting the length of the list.

[–] SharkyAttack@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Interesting, thanks for explaining!