/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

Nijisanji in-house software developer here.
You won't see view increases for the initial pass through because the application software they use downloads the form and utilizes the YouTube backend API to download the video directly as opposed to going through the UI or frontend API, so your views won't increase until they start passing your video around at the second level.
This is done so that the videos and applications can be kept together in a .rar file and saved off into a private computer that doesn't have internet in order to prevent the front line managers from accessing other videos on your youtube account and giving some applicants an unfair advantage due to having more videos to "show"

If you didn't get a view, you didn't get passed the first wave.