Yep!Or schedule it to appear an hour after it has uploaded.
The popular videos are probably stored in a cache thus stream/load faster due to numerous/frequent request. That's my guess.Youtube also encodes and spreads a video across all the servers much faster for higher sub count people. So if you have no subs and hardly any videos, it can be almost impossible for people on the other side of the world to watch your videos because they stream so slowly.
I have no proof of this, but I have seen it tested.