Convenient Numbers for Some

As the web becomes deeply social, popularity becomes self-reflexive. The more hits a video has on YouTube, the better its chances of being noticed. Curious how a video showing the deep disapproval that a visit to Chile by some of the capitalist architects of Chile's darkest chapter is seen by many and yet the view-count gets mysteriously stuck at some low number... Particularly curious, when even the number of votes the video gets is nearly double the claimed number of views...

Trust-erosion.