>>10819658>the numbers themselves are truthYoutube has literally not reported a single number correctly in the past 8 months
This is a screencap of what a Gura karaoke looked like when she had 600k subs back when youtube actually counted people in the waiting room when the stream started. They don't do that anymore - viewer numbers are literally just the people who joined the stream after it started. A minecraft stream that never got over 20k viewers ends and goes to the archive with 560k views on it. For that to make any sense, the entire audience had to watch for 7 minutes, literally all 20k of them leave, and a new 20k joins right after and they also only watch 7 minutes before leaving, and this has to go on every 7 minutes for the whole stream.
The viewer count is ALWAYS lower than the like count, often a ratio of 2 likes per 1 viewer, which makes literally no sense when the average view/like ratio for big youtube videos is 1 like per 25 views - off by a factor of 50 (!).
Youtube's numbers make absolutely no sense. They are so internally inconsistent that I can't even say they're made-up, because if they were made up they would actually have some internal inconsistency. They are worthless and mean nothing.
The only number you can even begin to trust is hololyzer's superchat count. 