Doge Guy grow up mate, there’s 132k comments and I read about 3 but if you think I’m sad enough to scroll through and copy another comment then fine but I can assure you you’re wrong. Jealousy at its finest.
I wonder if this is one of those videos where RU-vid themselves customized it to display a specific way? Like that Numberphile video about why RU-vid views stop at 301. And it seems like there's another one but I can't think of it off the top of my head.
I'm getting rather a lot of emails telling me that it's working (by my standards, miraculously well)! Which is great, thank you! -- but for the sake of my inbox: the code's also keeping logs for me, don't worry about it :)
It depends, you can give them the title if you give it before it updates. And does it matter? No. You can search “This video has views - Tom Scott”. Or send the link
I'd imagine the views presented by the RU-vid API are what are also used to show end users. All of the view fudging and aggregation will happen in the background before it's presented anywhere.