[netsharc]

The site calls the API directly (www.artic.edu), so yeah, probably it will ruin^W change the metric. It's probably the creator's idea?

Some, ahem, video sites, have "Popular videos". Of course the videos that end up there get more views and get even more popular...

[dylan604]

There's no real way to know that they really are that popular or just what the streamer wants viewers to think they are