Regarding some encoders/publishers allegedly trying to bury publications
Another thing worth noting is the language used in most of these comments is a bit more cruel than Spikestuff
Jan. 2019 rankings By the way, there was a TAS on Nicovideo for the game "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy" (I heard it's quite the troll game, from the same person who made QWOP) which has over 130K views. It was uploaded last November some time, but did not show up in any rankings. I have no clue how it was missed by whoever is organizing the rankings.
Second, if you turn into a spike ball with Y, you cannot interact with collectibles. Since the big CDs do nothing except change the music and have a load time, the TAS should ideally not collect any of those. You can definitely spike ball jump through that first big CD in 1-1 without losing as much time as the music change. I collect it in my runs because the starting track for this game is agonizing and I would play worse if I had to listen to it for the entire run. Worthy sacrifice for me, but not for the TAS.
I told you yesterday in chat, but for those who weren't there, I dumped perfect maps of the game with gravity fields included. I'll be making an interactive map viewer for my website when it is done being migrated/upgraded. Will likely not be done for another week or so.