Uhr der Ratstrinkstube, Marktpl. 2, 91541 Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany
I was wondering for a long time, why this photo received so many views - in the beginning thousands each day, but after several weeks (until now) the daily increase was less than 10*. Furthermore, I did not find it at the place, where I posted it, even though it is still visible with increasing views under My Contributions with a link to that pin.
After some research, I did find it. Not at the original pin, but on the page of the city scrolling down a long way under All or My own. How did it get there? No idea! My guess is, this was probably done by some AI function or even Google employee. At the city page, I did not only find this image, but also several others, I did post to the same and other places in this (famous) town.
But not only that! Since I got curious, I also checked the page of the area (Mittelfranken), county (Landkreis Ansbach) and even the state (Bayern). At each level of the hierarchy around the original place, I found even more of my photos from several places and towns including the country - obviously impossible to find a particular one, since you have to scroll down forever…
*Why did the number of view not increase as much as before? I believe for a limited time, the photo was at the banner/featured of one of those pages, I mentioned above.
P.S. On February 6, 2024, before the counting of views quit working, the number of views was 1,997,909! Since I was curious when it would reach the two millions, I checked it daily and that is why I realized the issue with publishing the view count. So far, the number of views displayed under My Contributions, never increased between February and August. However, according to a takeout, it did exceed 2 millions (2,005,689 as of Dec 11. 2024 that is a little more than 6 more views daily).
Photo taken with Sony ILCA-77M2, Tamron 16–300 mm
Star Photo Views History
In the table below I have shown the recent views history of my Star Photo.
| ID | Screenshot Date |
Place Name | Star Photo Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7296 | 2024-03-28 | Uhr der Ratstrinkstube | 1,982,879 |
| 7532 | 2024-04-28 | Uhr der Ratstrinkstube | 1,982,879 |
| 7769 | 2024-05-28 | Uhr der Ratstrinkstube | 1,982,879 |
| 7991 | 2024-06-28 | Uhr der Ratstrinkstube | 1,982,879 |
| 8211 | 2024-07-30 | Uhr der Ratstrinkstube | 1,982,879 |
| 8413 | 2024-08-28 | Uhr der Ratstrinkstube | 1,982,879 |
| 8622 | 2024-09-28 | Uhr der Ratstrinkstube | 1,982,879 |
| 8825 | 2024-09-28 | Uhr der Ratstrinkstube | 1,982,879 |
| 9028 | 2024-10-28 | Uhr der Ratstrinkstube | 1,982,879 |
| 9215 | 2024-12-28 | Uhr der Ratstrinkstube | 1,982,879 |