Previously ORDER BY published_at DESC meant only the newest 200 videos ever got view counts. Now ORDER BY RANDOM() spreads the 200 slots across the full channel history — videos without a count are still prioritised, but among those they're drawn randomly. Each run of Fetch Popular covers a different slice, converging toward full coverage over time. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>