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I checked, they are both unlisted and embedding is enabled.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Did you read the second sentence, though? It seems like it applies here.

Is that actually technically possible? I don’t think so

Why not? YT view counter is famous for being stuck on some low value like "300" when thousands of people are watching. It just isn't something worth updating in real time.

That’s a thing from like 2015 that was in place to to make sure that the views were real. I’ve uploaded videos that have gotten 10s if views. Really, how hard do you think it is to make a counter?

> Did you read the second sentence, though? It seems like it applies here

I guess I didn't! :)

That's interesting because I looked around to see if that was possible and did not find it to be so. I wonder if they have some back door access to YT videos due to, well, being YC?

Interesting.

.. more likely, the youtube view counting algorithm doesn't include embedded views.

In general, it does. https://boostlikes.com/blog/2014/08/youtube-video-views-embe...

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