>>12533011There's absolutely some fuckery on YT's part WRT tabouts and culling, and its not consistent.
See Pic. This is from Marine's 3dLive where the sound was fucked, so they had to do some quick fixes and restart it from the beginning. There was nothing but a static screen, but the stream was still going. Sound comes in, and bam, sudden influx of viewers who's only notification that things were back would that the sound is back.
Same thing with concert free-parts of concerts where the number jumps up once they move from the looping start to the actual live, etc.
Fuck I HATE YOUTUBE SO MUCH sometimes.