Why do YouTube views freeze at 301?

Numberphile pays a visit to YouTube and learns the secret behind one of the website's famous idiosyncrasies - why view counts on new videos often freeze at 301. Subscribe to numberphile for new videos about numbers every week.

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[Poptart133g]

You should ask the guys at Youtube to permanently put the View count for this video at "301."

[sayainify]

yeah man why don't those views get stuck??

I tried ｙｏｕｔｕｂｅ-ｓｏｌｕｔｉｏｎｓ.ｃｏｍ because of your example and really on my other accounts those views didn't got stuck at 301+ WTF???

Thumbs up for numberphile to answer this!!

[睿彧 林]

I've learned something.

no big deal ~

[sayainify]

I know sucks right!!But if I use youtube-solutions.ｃom the views don't get stuck at 301+...

But what tha fuu*k???Please like for numberphile to read and answer

[MinecraftTF11]

i wait for 1 month still 301

[Zippy Poozelah]

What if you have a view that is counted as zero?

[marwan sherif]

dude i waited 2 days and it still frozen ?

[SpittingImage123]

not even crap!!?

[jevicci]

This is a smokescreen! For the real reason for this, go to : x k c d . c o m / 1 2 2 4