User blog comment:Mich56 wikia/nick surpassed golden, german mapping, and miki/@comment-6138112-20150525200458/@comment-25802715-20150525205217

Since youtube added autoplay, the algorithms have changed. Each time someone uploads a video, the video gets a chance, it gets brought up to the top temporary and records some data, then brings it back down if it's not very sucessful. So in some cases, the first few seconds of the video counts