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[–] SharkyAttack@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (9 children)

How does the video have 86,000 views and 2.1m likes? What am I missing?

[–] NIB@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Views dont update in real time.

[–] BassaForte@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] SharkyAttack@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My question is of mathematics, not popularity. Sorry I wasn’t more clear, I am excited for the game too!

[–] BassaForte@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Ah. Like count updates faster than view count.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is the most expensive game ever built.

[–] SharkyAttack@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I get that. I’m excited for it too. My point is 80k views but 2.1 m likes. How could 2.1 m people like it when it hasn’t even been viewed 100k times yet? As soon as you load the page it’s a view, so at least 2.1m people would have had to open the video to like it.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

It was linked through a third party like twitter.

[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

The view counter is different than the like counter. If checked after a couple of days most likely we would say the views more than the likes.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

More expensive than Star Citizen?

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

You're looking at the sequel to the game that is still within Steam's Top 10 active player count, 8.5 years after its release.

https://steamdb.info/app/271590/charts/

People have been speculating on GTA6 for well over 5 years at this point, it's no surprise this announcement is popular.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Everyone here is missing the point that the video has more likes than views, by a few orders of magnitude...

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

It's because after a certain point, YouTube stops updating the view counts in real time. Some other stats (such as likes) will still update, though.

[–] SharkyAttack@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Exactly, thank you. I get what the massive appeal to the game is. I’ve played all the GTAs (yes I’m old), but something is fucky if it has that many updoots and not even 100k views (at the time).

[–] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Views don't update in real time but likes do. Always happens with big videos like this. It's something to do with YouTube reconciling the view counts across multiple servers, which gets very difficult with large numbers. It's a bit easier for them to create a stable like count when each user can only like it once, so they're essentially adding that user to a list and then counting the length of the list.

[–] SharkyAttack@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Interesting, thanks for explaining!

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

YouTube probably updates views on a periodic basis and likes in realtime.

My guess is you'll see views as higher than likes once activity dies down and the latter catches up to the former.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 years ago

YouTube view counts can lag a few hours behind when videos get sudden huge views like this

[–] Skipcast@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

The video was up early with a premiere scheduled, so people could start liking it before the video was available.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Money. Money buys everything.