Say you play a fried liver and you win, you usually get no mistakes because the game ends in the opening. When people like that 1200 play, the play average with mistakes and whatnot, and that 700 with 19 blunders is probably a troll account or wasn’t even trying.
The answer to your 2nd question is you choose what rating you join from.If you choose new to chess,all your ratings start with 400, and the list goes like
Beginner: 800
Intermediate : 1200
Advanced : 1600
mMaster : 2000
Does this help or do you still have any questions?
I'm new to chess, started playing around mid-December and now I'm confused about something, so basically my rating is like 550 and in a rapid game I get no mistakes, blunders, or missed wins usually, but on youtube, I see 1200's worse than me, and I came across a video today by GothamChess, on the thumbnail it said something like "700 game, 19 blunders". It sounds like these ratings are tripled. I just googled "starter rating on chess.com" and it said 1200, I started on 400. Can anyone help me to understand this?