Fifth Way said:I guess it is a slow update thing. We'll see tomorrow.
My understanding is that the view-counter on Youtube is not real time and may be glitchy. A lot of what you're seeing may be interference from their spam filter, which seems to have unintentional consequences for many users (see discussion thread here _http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=174b1eaf86454a61&hl=en). I think I remember this being discussed at some point here on the forum, but a quick search isn't turning anything up.
I'm not saying the count isn't being tampered with, but it might just be glitchy, or something is setting off the "artificial viewer" reader. Sitting there and viewing the vid multiple times may temporarily inflate the numbers, but I believe they will remove those from the count eventually (which may be why the number dropped from 1900, or that may be just a plausible excuse).