I complained over the weekend that YouTube is increasingly being gamed by users. I decided to test out how hard this would be - as it turns out, it’s exceptionally easy to rank among the most viewed videos and channels by simply refreshing the page.
The normal ratio for reviews to viewership is about 1:100 but many videos that rank highly for the day, are 1:3 or 1:2. In our casual observation, this seems to happen most in the morning, when we speculate that people are battling each other, jockeying f
