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How does the video have 86,000 views and 2.1m likes? What am I missing?
Views dont update in real time.
It's GTA 6 bro
My question is of mathematics, not popularity. Sorry I wasn’t more clear, I am excited for the game too!
Ah. Like count updates faster than view count.
This is the most expensive game ever built.
More expensive than Star Citizen?
Everyone here is missing the point that the video has more likes than views, by a few orders of magnitude...
It's because after a certain point, YouTube stops updating the view counts in real time. Some other stats (such as likes) will still update, though.
GTA is the most successful media franchise of all time.
It is way down the list, not even top 30. Pokémon tops all at 88 billion.
You're looking at the sequel to the game that is still within Steam's Top 10 active player count, 8.5 years after its release.
https://steamdb.info/app/271590/charts/
People have been speculating on GTA6 for well over 5 years at this point, it's no surprise this announcement is popular.
YouTube view counts can lag a few hours behind when videos get sudden huge views like this
The video was up early with a premiere scheduled, so people could start liking it before the video was available.
YouTube probably updates views on a periodic basis and likes in realtime.
My guess is you'll see views as higher than likes once activity dies down and the latter catches up to the former.
Money. Money buys everything.