Have I been botted?!

Isaki Tahashi said:
SO I know that usually only happens on bigger channels when they get a ton of views all at once and YouTube lags, but I have 136 subs and uploaded the video the other day. Earlier today is said I had around 40 views and a couple likes.
Now it's in 301 views and 236? likes.
I'm confused.
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Some videos of mine did hot 301... Normally it will be normal after few hours. These videos seems already on 301 for at least 24 hours, while the real-time analytics says something else.

It will be solved :)
 
We have had multiple reports of it happening over the past day to members here sadly, I always wonder why when people do things like this, I mean what is the point and what do they gain, it is sad really surely people have better things to do with their time.
 
Isaki Tahashi said:
SO I know that usually only happens on bigger channels when they get a ton of views all at once and YouTube lags, but I have 136 subs and uploaded the video the other day. Earlier today is said I had around 40 views and a couple likes.
Now it's in 301 views and 236? likes.
I'm confused.
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Yes, it's happened to a few people now. Actually, I'm going to merge the threads together, since it's been brought up a number of times. Sorry that happened to you though :/[DOUBLEPOST=1430783732,1430783438][/DOUBLEPOST]
ZombieBrain said:
I have uploaded my latest video (the one in my signature) 5 days ago and it had the average amount of views I usually get (around 60-70 I think).

And then something weird started to happen today. It suddenly started to receive a large number of views and likes. As for now realtime analytics is showing 400 estimated views and the video already got 255 likes. It's locked at 301+ views though. You probably know that Youtube locks a video to 301+ views until the views are confirmed as legitimate.

This situation worries me a lot. I didn't do anything to generate artificial traffic to my video. The only thing I did yesterday was posting the video on 3 different facebook youtube gamer groups. Do You think that someone tries to hurt my channel by generating illegitimate views / likes on my video? Should I contact Youtbe about this? I've seen some channels with most of their videos locked at 301+ views for months and I don't want my channel to become like that!

For now I have no way to check where those views are actually coming from, since Youtube analytics are always 2 days old. The only thing I was able to see was a notification on my twitter that a person called @zezimgameplays (from Brazil i think) liked this video.

edit:

I have noticed that this person also liked Squeal Cat's 1000 subs video and it's also now locked at 301+ with 270 likes!
@Squeal Cat
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This has happened to a few people. I've merged the threads together.
 
Just with the name of the video I have no doubt that the likes are real good job! :)[DOUBLEPOST=1430801740,1430801690][/DOUBLEPOST]Just with the name of the video I have no doubt that the likes are real good job! :)
 
Did you check out your analytics and see the traffic source you'll know if you've been botted or if they are legit people.
 
Hello, there's something weird going on in one of my videos.

In summary: I uploaded a video and normally the view count will raise to ~400 after several days with like 5~10 views an hour. Now with this video after 24 hours of the upload, the video skyrocketed to with 270 views in a few hours, and has been liked 270 times. This happened when I was asleep.

Does someone has an explanation for this? This looks to be very unusual to me...
 
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