Interesting theory! There have been examples that make me think this is not the case. I uploaded a video on the troops "coming home" but it was super depressing so I didn't post it here or on PAW and it got 8 views in a week and I yanked it because it wasn't fun to watch anyways.
I saw it happen in real time on a blog that I was running years ago. I watched the analytics, and in the first few hours it was mostly bots from all over the workd, until I managed to start up traffic from other sites. The stats would then go down to the human traffic.
Interesting theory! There have been examples that make me think this is not the case. I uploaded a video on the troops "coming home" but it was super depressing so I didn't post it here or on PAW and it got 8 views in a week and I yanked it because it wasn't fun to watch anyways.
I saw it happen in real time on a blog that I was running years ago. I watched the analytics, and in the first few hours it was mostly bots from all over the workd, until I managed to start up traffic from other sites. The stats would then go down to the human traffic.