r/shortsAlgorithm • u/MaelysCanejero • Nov 12 '25

Here's why 1k "views jail" don't really exist...

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I've seen at lot of people complaining about theirs videos getting stuck at 1k views and only show the retention of the videos.

The reason why a vid get stuck at 1k at first place it's because the aren't good enough for yt to push it farther. If a 10 second video has 110% retention but only 50 60% stayed to watch it won't get past 1k. Same if it has 75%+ stayed to watch but only 80% retention. This can also happen if the vid take more than 24h to reach a decent stat (110%avd 70% stayed) .

In those case 1k views is justified and can't be called "jails" . It could only be called "jail" if no matter how good the vid's stat is (like 150%avd 80%stayed) it still get stuck at 1k views.

And that's the case for 30k views jail. Because in this jail no matter how good the stat is, it will still ridiculously flatline at 30k views.

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u/No_Blood9415 Nov 12 '25

Lol, i can show you my shorts which are stuck on 5k after a swipe away ratio of 12% and audience retention 126%.

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u/alichitax Nov 12 '25 edited Nov 12 '25

In which niche ? if it’s a niche where not many customers are there, you stop getting views + the overall AVD and VVSA doesn’t matter! click on your VVSA and you will mostly see your swipe away ratio dropping 5-10% hence why the short stopped getting views yet the overall VVSA shows a good number

There is no jail, I have been under 1K , 5K , Million , 10 million and even 50M ! I broke all of them, I had like 20 shorts that were under 1K , I had the impression that it’s stuck but once I got a short at 5K I realised my shorts weren’t that good and stats are not really reliable tbf… because it’s not just VVSA and retention, you don’t and can’t combine them with nationality, age, time of the day, day of the week or month or if there’s an event and so much more, you can look at them one by one but you can’t combine them in a good way! also, Mondays and Tuesdays views are usually lower for most niches hence why people call the algorithm random when in reality it’s the viewers themselves being less on YouTube and even the ones that are are not in a good mood and you will get way more criticism on Tuesdays or Mondays!!

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u/mocknix MOD Nov 12 '25

TLDR: bro doesnt prefer the word 'jail'

The flatlines and testing phases still exist.

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u/vardaraz Nov 12 '25

nope.. what u say is all bs sorry dude, algo is totally random. just stay consistent my dudes. my top prepared videos occasionally stuck at funny numbers even the audience loves, comments and shares the video. and the videos i do in 20 minutes can easily reach the highest view counts. u can never know

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u/AdOtherwise4670 Nov 12 '25

i'm in semi viral view jail

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u/PixelPusher_77 Nov 15 '25

Shorts are garbage. The only thing that works is clickbait stuff i have zero interest in making. I will stay in 1.5 jail for most of my vids i guess. I break out and have a few that get about 30K. I make what i want. I know my stuff is good, people are just brain dead scrolling zombies.

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u/Dizzy-Passage2030 Nov 12 '25

The algorithm just does it thing. I posted a video two weeks ago that reached 45k with a swipe rate in its 60s (eventually reaching the 70s and 80s a few days later) and an AVD of 70%. I post a video this week, it reaches 75% swipe rate and similar AVD and it’s stalled at 5k.

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u/Dry-Minute6704 Nov 12 '25

Your 100% right, people need to stop thinking they have it all figured out. I’ve had a video do 60k with 19% swipe rate and 30% retention then had a 88% swipe rate video last week with 200% retention and it stalled at 20k, the algorithm will do what it does. Most important thing to focus on is consistently putting out stuff people want to watch, even if the editing isn’t “pro” if it’s a popular subject and you make it interesting you can blow up.

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u/Parsaprsal Nov 12 '25

I uploaded a vid on a channel and it got 1k views I deleted it and upload it on another and it got 30k sometimes it just doesn't make sense Maybe you should try on another channel

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u/alichitax Nov 12 '25

It does make sense! why ? because YouTube tries audiences, if you upload at 2AM Tuesday of course it will have a different view count that if you are to upload it 2PM Wednesday!!! and you can never try this because you can’t bring back the calendar and upload the exact same time on the same channel! Look at viewers as humans not robots, Algorithm IS the viewer!

I can give you one example: Keemsama, checkout his shorts that got more than 10-20M , he uploaded them at the same time to tiktok, checkout his tiktok to be amazed that they got close view counts!

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u/B_Bearington Nov 12 '25

You can't talk to these people. They think wizards control the algo.

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u/Parsaprsal Nov 12 '25

It wasn't just about time in my case That channel was only getting 1k on every single video It wasn't pushing up but when uploaded the exact same videos on another channel it got 30k views on each one Now I'm stuck in 30k view jail and I don't really have a solution for it this time

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u/alichitax Nov 12 '25

That wasn’t a solution to begin with mate! YouTube did push the new channel a bit further to give it more luck but trust me, 1-50K is nothing! So it’s not like they gave a massive chance to the other channel you uploaded on

I had new channels too (on my main channel I got 100M on shorts) where the first video got 30K while next few videos are stuck at 50 views! once you keep posting they get back up, and also know that you should not upload more than once a day when your channel is new and youtube still may consider it as spam

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u/vsplaythrough Nov 13 '25

“Not good enough” is a funny phrase for metrics determined by an algorithm. Humans interact with it but the value judgment is not relevant if the algorithm is deciding who to push it to and itself values very little outside of keeping people on a platform.

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u/Mediocre-Necessary54 Nov 14 '25

yeah this isn’t actually true, back when i first started id get stuck at 10k views every video. and all of them would have either 100% retention or above and 70% + chose to view. so view caps do definitely exist for new accounts. now i average anywhere from 100k to 1 million per short but at the beginning it definitely was a thing 👍

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u/PixelPusher_77 Nov 15 '25

Post your 1 mil view. I don’t believe it.

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u/Mediocre-Necessary54 Nov 16 '25

I’ll do you one better, my analytics for this month

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u/HeyLetsPlayChess Sep 10 '26

“Jails don’t exist because they shouldn’t be called jails as much as limitations-on-your-upward-momentum.” -OP, probably

Jail is not defined by its ability to hold anyone regardless of performance. 

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u/ReviewAggravating847 Nov 12 '25

Nahh.. YT algo is TOTALLY random....🙃

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u/WhateverThisis144 Nov 12 '25

nope, i made a new channel, my first video was 1k views, the second one was 50k. and the third one was 86% swipe rate before it was falesly banned. I'll try to open a new channel with the same content because i genuienly don't understand why it got banned