It may take time for the counters to update in the large distributed system like YouTube. Check tomorrow and see if it’s stuck
Discussion
But the views literally *decreased* from yesterday…
That is also expected. The way it works is there is an optimistic counter to give immediate snap view. Then there is a process that happens later to produce real count based on deduplication criteria and any bot filters. Some +/- fluctuations are expected. It is impossible to maintain immediate, cheap and reliable counter, so most throw away the immediacy to get the other two qualities

