It does do that for me, and it also regularly recommends videos with <1K views if it's from a channel I often watch. It even sometimes recommends videos with <1

It does do that for me, and it also regularly recommends videos with <1K views if it's from a channel I often watch. It even sometimes recommends videos with <100 views from channels I don't know if it's on a topic I watch videos on regularly. So it seems the algorithm doesn't do the same thing for everyone.