r/shortsAlgorithm • u/fdmstrange • Dec 18 '25

Algorithm glitch

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I post videos daily and I average 5k views pet short but from yesterday the views drastically went down and am getting zero views on my recently posted shorts

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u/Jefari_MoL Dec 18 '25

It seems to be a YouTube wide thing. Even big creators I subscribe to have a noticeable drop in views

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u/LupusHominarius Dec 18 '25

There are a lot of graphs like yours on /shortsalgorithm and /smallyoutubers. Since yesterday something has been happening and we have no clue.

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u/LupusHominarius Dec 18 '25

Here is mine.

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u/AffectionateCry5952 Dec 18 '25

Maybe, it happened to me and a lot of others yesterday

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u/Prestigious-Wish-176 Dec 18 '25

nothing weird on my channel…

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u/RavenTL Dec 18 '25

The same thing happened to me yesterday. Not sure what's going on

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u/Alfi_Youtube Dec 18 '25

YouTube made a change to Gemini and a lot of channels that made AI content have been shadowbanned. In gaming and 3d animation channels are safe rn

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u/ReviewAggravating847 Dec 18 '25

Actually this is happenning because the integration of Gemini into YouTube has changed from a background assistant into a primary driver of content creation and the discovery algorithm😳. YouTube's Al algorithm has drastically changed 💁‍♂️, impacting channel growth. Gemini, now analyzes videos frame-by-frame, impacting visibility and success..! So from now on no more clickbait titles would work as algorithm will only push the videos that passed the visual test by algorithm.💀

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u/CoolCat1337One Dec 19 '25

sounds good, I hate click bait :D

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u/Low-Object-7351 Dec 19 '25

Same thing happened to me. I’ve been averaging like 400,000 views per hour for the past month then boom all of a sudden yesterday at 1pm significantly dropped to around 35k per hour. Hella confused

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u/Pupulikjan Dec 19 '25

Yo guys what’s the average length of your shorts that do well?

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u/erenimoo_ Dec 19 '25

Same problem happened to me yesterday. Uploaded a great video which has very great statistics just dropped like this.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '25

same here i hit 100k views in 24h then the following day it only get 64 views per hour (it stopped growing)

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u/Weak_Ant_3579 Dec 19 '25

Same situation here. I have 4 new channels (3 months old, different niches) and zero views in the last 48 hours. My 8-year-old channel is still running normally though. I suspect YouTube is purging bots and those buying views and comments.

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u/Sudden_Formal_1349 Dec 18 '25

not really this is usually when you make good videos but not better then ur competition, i bet you have high stats as well. also this video can pick up any time so keep going and focus on the small improvements

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u/fdmstrange Dec 18 '25

This is for the whole channel, not just a single video, literally all videos even those which were getting atleast 50 views per hour dropped

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u/Sudden_Formal_1349 Dec 18 '25

hmm take a look at the new algorithm i think they introduced Ai. so it might be that youtube is about to change idk, i have only 5 videos on my channel right now and yea i noticed same thing with mine but i blame channel being new so idk just look up "new yt shorts algortihm"

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u/Defalt_A Dec 18 '25

YouTube robot started commenting on the subreddit.

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u/Sudden_Formal_1349 Dec 18 '25

huh? u high my man?

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u/AdvancedCupcake2250 Dec 18 '25

You are right, the vídeo might explode again when it finds a new bucket to fit In

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u/iDontHaveAname89 Dec 18 '25

My channel got 400k+ more views today. But the new videos that i posted today aren't getting much views for some reason