I had my Tetris video accepted into two categories and my second Yoshi's Cookie video accepted as well and both showed zero views not only at the time they were accepted but well afterwards. I took a screenshot of both instances. I'm curious as to why that is the case. My videos were legitimate and worthy of being accepted but it seems like a disservice to not even bother to at least pretend to watch the video and at least increase the view count while you make a pot of coffee or something. 

I also tested with other individuals to make sure there wasn't a view count delay and there isn't and my research shows that a view count delay typically doesn't happen until around 299 views. 

I find this particularly peculiar when I consider the fact people were volunteering to be moderators so if it's a matter of time I have to wonder why you aren't utilizing the people around you who are offering themselves as resources. 

I'd like for someone to point out an obvious fact that would make everything I'm saying wrong. Is that something I can hope for?

I'm carrying on the discussion on my Twitter just because it's easier to share photos. I'm seeing a close enough gap in Yoshi's Cookie that I can write it off as a time zone variance but there is a big gap in my first Tetris verification and first video view and YouTube analytics have my first view recorded down to the minute. I even think that first view might have been me on someone else's phone. Regardless of the outcome it's a very interesting puzzle box as to what's going on here even if it's entirely on YouTube's end and nothing to do with what's happening here. I'm not making any "charges" at this time but the numbers are too interesting for me to not check it out and investigate. Something is weird.

Potentially irrelevant, but when I verify runs, I download them via a 3rd-party program and do the verification process in a video editing program. Probably would bypass Youtube's statistics(?)

I know some mods like to watch the video on watchframebyframe.com too, so they can easily retime if they need to.

I assume my comment got deleted during the hack today.  It was well thought out and detailed and I don't have time right now to write it all again, but tl;dr:

I verified your runs, I do all my due diligence to ensure runs are submitted properly and accurately.  I may not have seen every second of your run, but I use timestamps, your timer, comparisons to other known legit runs, etc. to help verify.  It is always possible something gets missed but I do my best to ensure that doesn't happen.  I'm not sure why your videos don't get the "view" though.  I usually play runs from the embedded page here, and more often than not there will be a fast forward/rewind at some point, as well as not letting the video completely get to the end.