When streaming on YouTube, the order in which you watch content plays a crucial role in how the platform perceives your behavior and classifies your views. By following streaming guidelines that align with YouTube’s strict policies, you significantly increase the chances that your views will be counted toward music charts and not filtered out.
 

The most important thing to remember when streaming on YouTube is that it's a platform used by billions of people worldwide to consume not just music, but a wide variety of content—vlogs, tutorials, entertainment, news, commentary, and more. Because of this, YouTube’s algorithm is designed to detect natural, varied user behavior—not repetitive, artificial, or automated patterns.

Their detection systems constantly analyze billions of data points in real time, building a behavioral baseline for what constitutes “normal” user activity. While human behavior may seem chaotic, YouTube’s algorithm has enough data to interpret patterns and differentiate between organic engagement and manipulative behavior.

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Unlike other platforms, YouTube does not operate in a gray area where questionable views are allowed to inflate metrics. The view count shown under a video is strictly validated before being reflected publicly. Any view that does not meet YouTube’s standards for authentic engagement—such as views generated through looping, muted playback, background bots, or repetitive, low-interaction patterns—is either filtered in real time or never counted at all.

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While YouTube does perform deeper, post-review filtering, their real-time detection is so advanced that mass deletions after 24 hours are rare. Instead, what we often observe is a slowdown in the visible view count, especially when a video experiences a sharp traffic spike. During this period—especially within the first 24 hours of a release—YouTube rigorously verifies view legitimacy, which is why it's critical to prioritize clean, manual streaming during that window. Delayed or filtered views could cost us valuable charting momentum.

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To ensure your views count, it’s essential to stream in a way that reflects how real users behave. Billions of people use YouTube daily, and they don’t stick to one genre, one channel, or one artist. Think about the last time you went down a YouTube “rabbit hole”—you may have started with one video and ended up somewhere unexpected, following recommendations, search results, or spontaneous curiosity. There was a thread of connection, but it wasn’t strictly linear.

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When streaming for Stray Kids, mimicking that rabbit-hole behavior—switching between related content, exploring different types of videos, searching manually, and interacting—helps reinforce that your activity is organic. This is far more effective than simply replaying the same video over and over.

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In short, YouTube operates on a binary system: a view is either valid and counted, or it’s invalid and discarded. There is no middle ground. This is why following proper streaming guidelines that emulate authentic user behavior is essential—not just for increasing view counts, but for ensuring every effort truly supports Stray Kids in a measurable and sustainable way.

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• Vary the fillers used, do not use the same ones in every playlist or active streaming session.

• Alternate the channels you play a video from- SKZ Content can be found on 3 different YouTube Channels.

• Use various content from other channels- Fancams, Stages, Collabs, OSTs, interviews, brand ambassador promo, etc. as fillers

• Do not Loop Playlists - when one is finished manually search a video or switch accounts before starting a different one.

• Try to interact with the platform even while using a playlist frequently.

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To learn how to make playlists on YouTube, see this step-by-step guide.

• How to create & edit a playlist in the YouTube app

• How to create & edit a playlist in the Android app