Today I was scrolling... well, rather looking at the trending page on youtube when I noticed that the video "Earth Day 2018 Google Doodle" was the #1 trending video on the platform.
As usual, I assumed that there must've been some massive amount of likes, comments or views on the video that got it to where it was. To my surprise, there were no likes, no comments, and most importantly, there was no view count?
If you do not know already, Youtube is owned by google.
In the official document that outlines what becomes 'trending' on youtube it says, "YouTube does not favor specific creators", but it seems as if they are, indeed, favoring the "googledoodles" channel.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7239739?hl=en
I just wish that they'd be honest with us...
P.S. I do not hate Earth Day at all. I'd actually consider myself an environmentalist and the subject of the video is unrelated to the article.