I have been wondering who is looking at the posts here. How do so many posts have thousands of views and only one or two comments? The post about pulled over by cops had 200+ views within 6 hours! The dog post has 1,800+ views.
Strange.
I had that on my old forum (TOC), I believe it's mostly Meta Bot's that scan sites for info on the "Meta" tags imbedded in the HTML coding, so they can feed to the search engines.
That was my guess, bot searches for specific words. Even if no one looks I guess it still registers as a click.
The bots tend to look into the HTML coding at the beginning of each page, embedded in the coding are "Meta" tags, some of those tags are for page layout etc, and some of the tags are for "key words" that are put in there for search engines to pick-up on.
The Meta tags for this site are....
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<meta property="og:site_name" content="PopUp Times">
<meta property="og:title" content="PopUp Times - Index">
<meta property="og:url" content="https://popuptimesmagazine.com/forum/index.php">
<meta property="og:description" content="PopUp Times - Index">
<meta name="description" content="PopUp Times - Index">
<meta name="theme-color" content="#557EA0">
You can right click on most website pages, then click on view page source to see the HTML coding.