The term is quite over used in my opinion, it is very often used in hyperbole. Whether it is in terms of popularity and driving traffic to a website or a threat said to break the Internet, it doesn’t seem to live up to the meaning of the term.

  • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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    11 months ago

    I mean, yeah, it is a bad design but you have to remember that YouTube wasn’t always a Google owned service, this sounds exactly like the kind of thing that gets overlooked in a hobby project because no video ever will have more than 2 billion views, right?

    So yeah, bad design but really easy to forget about for a video view counter.