A limited number of users have recently seen the number of views and likes of a YouTube video increase in real time. We wonder what such a feature could be used for.
When you are looking for a video on Youtube, what do you rely on to know if it’s worth watching? On the sticker? On title ? Or rather at number of views What does it display? Rightly or wrongly, we spontaneously tend to think that the more views a video has, the more quality content it offers. Same thing with “likes”, or thumbs up. This is all the more true when you want to find a tutorial For example. Soon, these two indicators could see a significant change.
We know that the platform is used to carry out experiments. Without announcement or warning, a small number of users will suddenly notice something new or a difference in interface. This is exactly what happened here. YouTube has deployed to a few people a views and likes counter updated in real time. The result is exactly as you imagine: the numbers increment regularly as if someone were pressing the button on a manual counter.
The views and likes counters on a YouTube video will update in real time
If our colleagues at Android Police have just noticed this new behavior, it was spotted on the community social network Reddit last October 26. Rather than talking about the new thing, the Internet user concerned only wants one thing, deactivate it. It is in fact distracted by the movements of the counters during viewing. Another responds with a solution that he looked for and found as soon as the function appeared for him, as he found it so annoying.
Obviously, the figures change whether the video is paused or not, and the animation starts even when you switch to another application before relaunching YouTube. These are certainly only the testimonies of a few people, but we wonder about the usefulness of such a function. If you watch the video in full screen, you won’t see anything anyway. And if you view it windowed, it will be a visual nuisance at best. At least when YouTube tests streaming gameplay in a browser or the free-for-all Picture in Picture mode, we immediately see the benefit.