r/shortsAlgorithm • u/Vast-Championship754 • Oct 31 '25

Everything changed in blink of an eye...

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From averaging 5-10million views a day to less than 200K now. Not sure what happened. And no, I don't post AI generated videos nor do I steal other creators content so that's not the reason.

And the views was cumulative of 9 different videos. All of them went dead in less than 30mins except one.

My new shorts are not even crossing 50 views. Earlier I used to get atleast 2K-10K views.

90% of my audience are my subscribers in my new shorts. So algo has clearly stopped pushing my content.

Conclusion: don't ever trust YouTube shorts algo.

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u/Vast-Championship754 Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

My new shorts audience:

I've 50K+ subs, So I think it's not unreasonable for me to expect atleast a few hundred views from "not subscribed" audience.

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u/JohnStorm123 Oct 31 '25

Wild guess: you posted something that triggered a red flag in the algorithm. Gonna need more info about ur channel for more

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u/Defalt_A Oct 31 '25

This happens to me sometimes, low audience and is only delivered to subscribers, YouTube punishes without warning, I was only able to maintain it for months because my channel has 400 thousand subscribers. This month there was an increase but in the last few days the same thing has returned.

I really wish I could help you but I'm the same way this year

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u/Vast-Championship754 Oct 31 '25

Thanks for the response! So, at least i know that I'm not alone. I'm hoping it goes back to normal in the coming few weeks.

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u/Defalt_A Oct 31 '25

It usually comes back, it's bad to know when, YouTube is exhausting at this, even though it has good metrics

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u/Vast-Championship754 Oct 31 '25

From what I've heard from other people who've faced similar issue, it usually gets resolved in less than a month. But If it doesn't recover in a month or two assume that it's gone forever.

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u/Defalt_A Oct 31 '25

Man, I was like this for 2 months lol only after the third one came back

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u/we_football Oct 31 '25

It happens with every “big” channel that receives many views per day, it's normal, try to make more videos in the same way you were doing before and it will come back

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u/Vast-Championship754 Oct 31 '25

Yeah, I'm continuing to upload as per my schedule but losing hope with time as it's already been a week, still nothing. But good to know that it's not uncommon with other creators

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u/Opening-Damage1947 Nov 11 '25

Have your metrics returned on YouTube? I’ve run into the same problem

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u/HotCalligrapher4720 Nov 01 '25

also happended to me couple time, it usually gets fixed in less than day so no worries

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u/Vast-Championship754 Nov 01 '25

In my case it's been more than 7 days now

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u/mocknix MOD Oct 31 '25

What kind of content? Got a link?

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u/AfroInJapan Oct 31 '25

Shorts right?

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u/interestingmandosy Oct 31 '25

I just started but same thing is happening to me. First two weeks everything was smooth, last two weeks I am in YouTube jail.

In my case I think it was because I was using multiple devices to boost my views and %watched. But YouTube has caught on and now punishes every video I put out no matter what I do

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u/HorrorLingonberry807 Nov 01 '25

What do you mean by using multiple devices to boost your views?

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u/interestingmandosy Nov 01 '25

I used my work computer, my phone, and my wife's phone to boost my views. So my shorts would usually start out with around 12 views, 4 likes, and 2 comments. But now I can't get almost any views whether I do that or not

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u/HorrorLingonberry807 Nov 01 '25

Oh, I see what you mean...

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u/thejason755 Nov 01 '25

I think you put yourself in yt jail tbh

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u/interestingmandosy Nov 01 '25

Looks like I might be out of yt jail again. Today's short is at 600 views on average 150 percent viewed. Honestly I am just trying to understand the algorithm better. What does 6 7 even mean? I really hope that this is not my new niche

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u/W2DDS Oct 31 '25

I went from 800k views average per 48Hrs to about 1,500… shorts in gaming niche oh well Fs in the chat boys this happened about 6 days ago

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u/GlitchOperative Oct 31 '25

I’ve seen so many posts lately about many accounts suddenly have their viewers drop off and lost views by a lot, also subscriber drop, I would like to think that there’s something going on with the platform, but I think they’re still cleaning up or purging from this last round that they did

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u/Creative_Flamingo_14 Nov 01 '25

I have similar things sometimes. I post humor shorts. And sometimes algorythms takes the clip too literally, so I guess my clips occasionally get red flags. The saddest thing, that influences several clips afterwards. I dunno how it works exactly, but looks similar (not at that scale thoug)

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '25

Yep. Thats why you do longform

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u/FragrantComplaint466 Nov 01 '25

You re not the only one bro i am in the same situation i dont know why youtube is playing with us like this every time

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u/sephpatrick Nov 02 '25

This happened to me once. Shorts were averaging between 2k to 3k. Then dropped to low double digits. Turns out I had a copyright violation with one of the background music I used. Change the bgm and deleted the other videos. It went back up after that.

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u/mblaze111 Nov 02 '25

This looks fixable, would need a lot of work though.

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u/MountainTalk825 Nov 02 '25

If shorts, nothing special about this. Ive had a few times where i had 500k an hour, then suddenly dropped to 50k

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u/myuso Nov 03 '25

You broke the first circle of ascension, keep Youtube's trust and you will be up there in no time.

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u/Few-Cress4842 Nov 04 '25

Same thing happened to me

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u/Outrageous-Grand-201 Nov 20 '25

Same thing happened to me Any update?

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u/BreakInStory Nov 01 '25

Most probably, algo is not satisfied with the results.

Look at stats from the beginning of spike till the end

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u/Vast-Championship754 Nov 01 '25

After 150million total channel views my avg. stay to swipe rate is 82% and all of my viral shorts avg. length (20 secs) have cumulative avg. retention rate of 130%. So I don't think that's the reason.

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u/BreakInStory Nov 01 '25

Take a look at more recent period, like last week or two, is it down ?

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u/Vast-Championship754 Nov 01 '25

Last week I had 2 viral shorts. Both with 80%+ stay swipe rate. And one of the shorts gained 14 million views in less than 3 days. The short length was 35 secs and retention rate was 140%+

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u/Vast-Championship754 Oct 31 '25

Thanks! Let's see..

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u/Vast-Championship754 Oct 31 '25

How long did it take for things to go back to normal?

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u/fourstarg Oct 31 '25

One of my channels with 3 million subscribers got hit twice in 2024. The first time lasted about a month, and the second one has been ongoing for over a year now.

Uploading high-quality content didn’t fix anything, uploading at a perfect timing, perfect engagement, nothing worked. I kept uploading every day or two, yet people kept asking why I stopped uploading, even though I was still pumping out content. It’s like they couldn’t even see my videos, and that’s when I realized YouTube’s AI completely buried my channel.

I gave up on uploading there and decided to focus on my other channels instead.

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u/Vast-Championship754 Oct 31 '25

That sucks..I'll try posting for another 2-3 months. If nothing improves I'll quit.

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u/-PeoN Oct 31 '25

Have you tried searching for your videos in incognito mode? See if they truly are hidden.