Lenny Rachitsky on YouTube's view count tweak: 'grade inflation'

lennysan · x · 2026-09-03

Lenny Rachitsky responded to Tom Kantrowitz's quip that YouTube's latest view count tweak amounts to serious grade inflation, wondering how long it will take for people to readjust their sense of what a 'normal' view count is. Brief commentary; the substantive point is in the original post.

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