>>48893947YouTube team usually "explains" this by stating that likes and votes do not go through the same filtering process that viewers go. They hope you just accept that those are not accurate and move on. There are a few things you need to consider before addressing the elephant in the room:
1.Some streams clearly have botted activity, but assuming that all of them do that would be borderline ludicrous
2.Building on #1 point, YT has extremely high live viewers engagement (voting). This means that if you make a poll that expires in 5 minutes, it would not be uncommon to get 60-80% engagement, but that is not in line with other streaming platforms where viewers engagement would rarely exceed 50%. And no, streams don't have such high viewers rotation to make those polling numbers inflate like a balloon in under 10 minutes. Usually we'd be looking at less than 5% error margin due to viewers tuning in and out, but not 20-30%
Now to address the actual problem that's causing this: if you have ad blocker on, or you are tabbed out, you will not be counted toward CCV even if you're logged in. YT treats everyone with ad blockers like trash not worth counting. They most certainly know YOU are watching because you're using their chat while being logged in, subscribed/membered or even sending SCs, but they still choose not to acknowledge your presence (with a few exceptions). Why? Your guess is as good as mine, but I'd wager it's because YT is still primarily a VOD platform that wants to retain their high $/1k views payout, but you can't have that if half of those views are unmonetized.
Unfortunately for streamers, the number of ad block users will only go up (see picrel), and as long as streaming plays a second fiddle to VODs on YT, that shit will never get changed. Yes, it doesn't make sense considering how they should be aiming to show as high CCV number as possible, especially to attract more streamers, but then again, is this really surprising considering all of the retarded decisions they've made over the past 10 years?
