The YouTube API v3 returns most numeric values as strings rather than numbers, which is a common pattern in many APIs. For example: When comparing strings alphabetically, "931806" would come after "933163" because the first character '9' is the same, but then it compares '3' vs '3', then '1' vs '3', and since '1' comes before '3' in ASCII order, it incorrectly ranks "931806" higher than "933163".