The Youtube attention machine was captured a long time ago, and they've been doing this for years to engineer the culture. Even outside of politics, when they want a certain musical artist to get famous overnight, they just manipulate views to show hundreds of thousands and that person who was unknown the day before is now plastered on their front page and in millions of recommended lists. You have to wonder how someone like Billie Eilish gets famous in what actually felt like one day. Or how this or that podcast blows up in a day, despite that format being saturated, combined with the real sense that this person doesn't have the content or charisma to have sailed to the top of that mountain. At this point, I think its naive to imagine the powers that be aren't using that system to the full potential of its social engineering powers. Of course they are manipulating Biden view counts. They've got a tool to control what a majority of the population sees. It's better penetration than TV.