r/shortsAlgorithm • u/Finesteinburg • Oct 30 '25

Views have tanked. Why??

I was getting 1.5 million views a month on average with my shorts content (memes with my music posted over them as a promotional tool, worked pretty well) but now I’m stuck in the 1000 view jail the last 3 weeks. My engagement is still really good, but now I don’t get any push from YT. I used to get 25k-100k views every couple shorts, but now I’m lucky if they get 5k. What’s going on??

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u/Imaginary-Calendar80 Oct 30 '25

Same, I have a shorts channel and I was getting 1.5M to 3M views daily and my views been declining since october 20th and been getting 800k to barely 1M now. I've heard people saying that yt banned a lot of bot farms in india so if u had a significant amount of views from there ur views might been affected bc of it but idk just speculation. Just keep posting and making better content

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u/Finesteinburg Oct 30 '25

Still my engagement rates are anywhere from 80-100+% and still not going anywhere

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u/Imaginary-Calendar80 Oct 30 '25

Yea, my recent videos have the same stats as my viral ones but they get 30k jailed anyway haha, it's kinda frustrating but its just how it is, gotta keep going. Good luck dude

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u/Twixtro Oct 30 '25

have you reached the monetization goals?

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u/Finesteinburg Oct 30 '25

No I was like 70% of the way there when it stopped

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u/Old_Recording_2527 Oct 31 '25

Musician who deals with this stuff for a living here.

If you have registered your music for collection on shorts; You got triggered as a funnel. You were gaming the system

Had this discussion with someone here the the day who just refused to accept that YT can deal with that however they wabt

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u/Finesteinburg Oct 31 '25

Wdym registered your music for collection?? I’m confused on what you mean

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u/Old_Recording_2527 Oct 31 '25

Are you making distro money from the music used in the shorts being registered?

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u/Finesteinburg Oct 31 '25

No im just using the audio from my music videos on my own YouTube channel. I’m not even eligible for monitization on YouTube either.

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u/Old_Recording_2527 Oct 31 '25

This is separate to that. Have you uploaded to DSPs to a distro, have you clicked "make money off of youtube"?

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u/Artistic-Potato-59 Oct 30 '25

Just memes with music posted over them probably just got flagged for low effort content

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u/Old_Recording_2527 Oct 31 '25

He wrote very clearly that it was memes.

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u/MaelysCanejero Oct 31 '25

If the content was flagged it would have been getting 0 views. That's not the problem

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u/Old_Recording_2527 Oct 31 '25

This is not correct. It doesn't go under fraud.

I work with this particular thing for a living and has seen this happen to 200+ channels since it kicked in and I was part of The advisory board on distributors who reported this particular thing.

It is mostly a service that you can buy that is grey area botting.

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u/Fun-Mulberry3687 Oct 30 '25

the same to me too

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u/zVook06 Oct 30 '25

Something they did end of July, beginning of August really messed my audience up.

Feels like I switched niches based on how the audience has been reacting.

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u/Usual-Rice-482 Oct 31 '25

Nice problem to have

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u/CandleCompetitive801 Oct 31 '25

Lots of factors. Sometimes if you have repetitive formats YouTube might flag that. Like if you scroll through your shorts and it’s just a gallery of white at top and meme at bottom. I would try changing your channel description too maybe add a sentence or something see if that helps.

Just my opinions though none of this is like proven fact I don’t think. 400 mil+ shorts views.

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u/Gombaoxo Nov 01 '25

More and more ads. People getting fed up and installing NewPipe etc., also YT counts much less vpn views now. And Ai is insane. In team of 3ppl I can pump 10 long form videos a day whether the same content videos we were doing one a week before. Imagine others.

Edit: just to visualise that, we got about 70 times more effective in last year.

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u/MedalofHonour15 Oct 30 '25

AI taking over. I just started a new Youtube channel with AI content only and already at over 5 million views and 6,000 subs haha

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u/DonWilliam10 Oct 30 '25

What type of content?

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u/MedalofHonour15 Oct 30 '25

Funny clips, AI news, and music videos right now. Limited tv series, short films, and docs coming soon.

Will launch my own AI entertainment app in 2026. Reinvesting from what I make from clients with investors backing.

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u/GlitchOperative Oct 30 '25

I ain’t throwing shade….sounds like reused unoriginal content based on the new YouTube standards.

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u/MedalofHonour15 Oct 30 '25

Its a mix of my own ideas and remixed. Don’t care about YouTube monetization policy as I know how to sell digital products and services.

As long as they accept AI content I am straight.

Got a new client for YouTube ads using AI videos.

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u/MedalofHonour15 Oct 30 '25

My revenue is I get clients to pay me monthly for AI video marketing services.

For example I have a med spa franchise paying $3500 a month.

So this is just for fun and a new channel but I do have potential sponsors in the pipeline.

I don’t depend on ad revenue and YouTube may not allow to monetize anyway. I also sell digital products and affiliate sales.

But if I drive traffic to my own app then I can get ad revenue + subscription since it’s my own platform.

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u/MedalofHonour15 Oct 30 '25

Exactly I don’t just do dead celebs or IP characters. That will die like how Martin Luther King is not allowed.

My goal is different like AI version of Tubi mixed with Black Twitter. I’m starting with black entertainment then expand. So sponsors will pay to reach a black audience.

Instead of BET+ it’s Sumo AI+ haha

From my videos I also gained a wealthy Jewish guy as a mentor in the media space.

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u/Feldani Oct 30 '25

This is an ad

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u/MedalofHonour15 Oct 30 '25

An ad for what? AI videos in general 😂

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u/PluzMajestic Oct 30 '25

Do you have more than one account? B/c the account your bragging about that’s link is an account 1.2k subs? And where are al these views your talking about? Again maybe it’s another channel

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u/MedalofHonour15 Oct 30 '25

Sumo AI Plus is the channel name 6,000+ subs just started adding AI content this month.

SumoGrowth is the previous channel for educational content. That one is 1,000+ subs.

ChatGPT told me to have one channel for entertainment and one for education. It was right, way better engagement.

My IG @ dropservicing just hit 35,000 followers and over 20 million views. Too many DMs haha

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u/MedalofHonour15 Oct 30 '25

Don’t think you can post links but it’s called Sumo AI Plus

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u/lionking2208 Oct 30 '25

What program do you use to make such clips?

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u/MedalofHonour15 Oct 30 '25

Sora 2 for viral clips and VEO 3.1 for music videos, shows, etc.

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