YouTube has been introducing new features to its platform lately like UPI support, Dark Mode toggle, voice search for cast, and more. On similar lines now, YouTube has made a change in the view count numbering format displayed on videos.
But, is there is a specific reason behind it? Because lot of people saying it is nothing else than fraud.
The Story
The view count of YouTube videos on the Home Page and Trending section is now displayed in lakh and crore instead of million and billion, and it is not showing on channel pages yet. View count of videos that have crossed 1,00,000 are now displayed in lakh instead of hundred thousands (100K and so on) and videos that have crossed 1,00,00,000 views are displayed in crore instead of 10M and so on. For instance, the first video in the screenshot below has crossed 11,00,000 views and now it is displayed as ’11 lakh views’ instead of ‘1.1M views’.
The Questions
There may be reasons behind the change that YouTube has done with their algorithm, but their are several questions being asked.
Tim Horton tweeted that this almost looks like a case of YouTube fraud! Having the ability to go in and change viewer count (down) reduces monetized payment on videos with removed views! It would be extremely interesting to find out if YouTube still receives full ad compensation, cheating their clients!
The End Notes
This new feature is in its experimental stage, it may look unnatural because we had developed habit of playing with millions and billions. Hahahah. But, this feature is really great when it comes to present view and subscriber number data for big channels and videos. Because channels are crossing Millions very fastly and they now need a bigger target with smaller number.
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