You've seen this before, somewhere on YouTube. A new video from a popular producer of content gets uploaded and the count stops at 301. What is the significance of 301? The Likes for the video will climb, but the count just stops. What's going on?

Finally, YouTube celeb and frothing numbers geek Brady Haran aka Numberphile spoke with Ted Hamilton of YouTube Analytics and he answers its just a simple question of coding and making sure nobody is gaming the system. Hit the jump to check out the video below: