The site calls the API directly (www.artic.edu), so yeah, probably it will ruin^W change the metric. It's probably the creator's idea?
replySome, ahem, video sites, have "Popular videos". Of course the videos that end up there get more views and get even more popular...
There's no real way to know that they really are that popular or just what the streamer wants viewers to think they are
replyWe're not worried about ruining this metric. We want people to see art.
replyQuerying the API, there seem to be 112998 artworks with this label as of this moment.
reply(I'm deliberately not posting the direct API call in case it's expensive for them to run. Documentation is found here: https://api.artic.edu/docs/#fields-collections-artworks)
...aaaand we're down to 112997 now.
replyIf the views are all real views it's hardly "inflating" anything.
replyIf they're using a static threshold of 200 views and there aren't many of these left it could pull them all out of that category.
replyIt could obviously be fixed but I was more curious than anything