With an explanation from You. Tuber, Ted Hamilton. The short answer is, You. Tube decides to stop updating at that number to verify the authenticity of those clicks and future clicks. They try to eliminate “counterfeit views. “.
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This of course begs the question “Why is my YouTube view count stuck at 301?”
I discovered there is a glitch in You, and tube’s system. The user requested the view count to stay at 301 views., you Tube starts to freeze the views of videos temporarily, once they reach 301 views. This is done as a measure to verify that all the views are from real viewers, instead of bots.
Why did YouTube’s video count stop at 301?
On popular videos, the video count would often hit 301 views and then stop and stay like that for up to 24 hours and then jump to thousands of views after that. No one outside of Google/You. Tube knew why it stopped at 301. There were rumors, theories but no official answer from Google themselves. That is until today.
It’s long frozen the counter after 301 so that it can take some time to filter out any fake views from robots, but doing so has meant keeping the counter really imprecise while thousands of legitimate views come in.
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Why does YouTube stop updating after a certain number of clicks?
The short answer is, You. Tube decides to stop updating at that number to verify the authenticity of those clicks and future clicks. They try to eliminate “counterfeit views.”.
Is there a 301 redirect for YouTube videos?
I had no idea, but there is this phenomenon with You. Tube videos and the number 301. No, not a 301 redirect but 301 views. On popular videos, the video count would often hit 301 views and then stop and stay like that for up to 24 hours and then jump to thousands of views after that.
Do emojis freeze YouTube views?
Meaning, ironically, it’s likely the notification squads that freeze views rather their comment contents, when it comes down to it. One good example; I follow BTS and always see their fans freaking out on each other for using emojis and being quite rude if you say the truth that emojis don’t freeze views, You, and tube does.