yeah, i'm noticing it. what i'm experiencing is that hits from certain countries in the former soviet union and east asia especially (but countries outside the "first world" in general) get erased by some kind of software that is probably designed to prevent hit buying. i can't speak for you but i'm certainly not buying hits, i just get a lot of traffic from international news agencies (and a flip through my public google+ profile will make it obvious why).

basically, it seems like what youtube is doing is saying "if you have a high amount of traffic from outside of europe and north america then you must be buying hits, and those hits will be erased.". which is heavy-handed and counterproductive. i can get behind schemes designed to prevent view buying, but the algorithm seems to be making things worse by hyper-americanizing the site. i mean, i don't even live in the united states...

that being said, i can get my head around some bad implementation. bugs. fine. but, it seems to be getting worse and not better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d09EwcYc5k