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Ljink96 on 19 July 2016
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Metallox said:
Ljink96 said:
It's via a YouTube technique called, viewbotting, botting, whatever you want to call it. You buy software from a company that sends "fake computer IPs" to view you video or give you subscribers. This is one of the reasons YouTube has the great YouTube purge to try and combat it. If a video like this had 100M real views, it'd have waay more comments. The owner of the channel is cheating.

Makes sense now. But this phenomenon happens with practically every Mario Party game, as well with other Mario games, main and spin-offs included. 

Videos that get 5-10 million is understandable...but 100Million is viewbotting for sure. Especially for a game like this that didn't sell that well. Notice that about 50% of the comments are "How'd the video get so many views". Also, viewbotting isn't illegal I don't think... so I guess that's why it's so widely used. However when it comes to compensation, I think Youtube and Twitch verify the IPs before the content creators are able to recieve payment for views/likes/ traffic in general. It's not just mario party though, it's happening with a ton of other Nintendo franchises as well.

Edit: The user has also had 234,326 subscribers for some time now. You'd think he'd have more with all those views...at least one more.