I think it's because they did the "removal of deleted, private,unlisted vids" Their counting system was really busy fixing the numbers and then REfixing the numbers as many people made their vids public to get BACK the views they lost. I lost 800k, took the private vids and made them public and got those views back in like 6 hours. I did NO fake views yesterday and my counter did not update to ANY "new views" BUT what do I know? Every time I figure out a method it stops working. I hope a great method (that I'llnever know) did NOT get patched as we NEED providers...