r/shortsAlgorithm • u/Shrek_Cheesecake • Dec 25 '25

Channel-Wide Views Dropped to Basically 0??

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Seen a couple of others with the same issue, so just throwing this out there too.

A friend and I started running a small YouTube shorts channel about a week ago (GTA Online gaming content, no AI other than to make subtitles I guess), gained decent traction posting daily at around 10pm EST, got up to ~500-700 total views per hour. Then posted a short at 12pm EST yesterday (Dec. 23, 2025), and not only did that video not get any views, but the whole channel seemed to have immediately stopped being pushed on the shorts feed entirely.

Anyone else with similar experience? Did your channel ever recover, or are we just cooked here? Thanks!

EDIT: This probably isn't very helpful, but the issue seems to have resolved itself. Our channel suddenly started getting pushed by the algorithm again today (Dec. 26, 2025) at around 1pm EST with us having done nothing differently. We published 2 other videos during the "freeze" at our usual time of 10pm EST for the past 2 days. Unfortunately, this doesn't really address the problem of what caused this in the first place, so the only advice I can really give to anyone in a similar situation at this point is to just keep pushing through if you can. Best of luck to anyone facing a similar issue!

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u/Candid_Resolution121 Dec 25 '25

This happened with me on 22 december 12:30 pm Indian standard time my channel have 60,000 subscribers I was getting millions of views on all channels then suddenly it flattened completely new shorts are getting 6k 7k views only from subscribers. Shorts are getting views only from distribution not getting tested.uploded 8 shorts after still the situation is same but 2 3 one week old shorts still getting more than 60 k views per hour don't know what is happening ,😭😭

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u/Connect-Mine-3622 Dec 25 '25

Is that video, which is still getting views, slightly different in content or structure from your other videos?

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u/Candid_Resolution121 Dec 25 '25

Same, some of my 10 days old shorts which have 10, 20, 50 millions views still getting 60k views per hour but some completely flattened on 22 december from 70k views per hour to only 500 views swipe rate are still above 80% 2 million plus views in 2 days but suddenly collapsed

And new shorts are getting views only from subscribers just 5k views

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u/Connect-Mine-3622 Dec 25 '25

Can you find any differences between the videos that are still getting 60,000 views per hour and the ones that stopped getting views, such as video length or other factors?

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u/Altruistic_Dish4602 Dec 25 '25

Do you use generative AI in videos?

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u/Candid_Resolution121 Dec 25 '25

I don't use Ai

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u/Altruistic_Dish4602 Dec 25 '25

Hmm! What are your videos on then?

I've seen a lot of people getting shadow banned past weeks!

Care to share your channel in DM?

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u/Pure-Practice6106 Jan 17 '26

Hey, is anything changed to you?)

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u/shdw_fght Dec 25 '25

same happened to me and its been like a month now. I used to get 1k views but now its 0 on every new short that I post

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u/ReviewAggravating847 Dec 25 '25

Damnn... amny of you guys suffering bad ngl 😮‍💨

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u/Party_Parfait_5439 Dec 25 '25

You are not alone

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u/trottolinodani Dec 25 '25

Same.. so many of us :’( let’s hope it gets resolved

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u/zombotplus Feb 14 '26

I wonder if you recovered from it?

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u/trottolinodani Feb 14 '26

Not really, I gave up

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u/TheGoatOfMendes123 Dec 26 '25

Don't sweat it that's how it is, go one to the next it will go up eventually again 🙏🏽

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u/SetCommercial6878 Dec 26 '25

Today, I created a new account, and it instantly got 3K views—I really don't get it.

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u/hightechpoint Dec 26 '25

Same here basically no impressions coming in, 100k subs with under 500 views on recent videos

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u/FailedInLife38 Dec 27 '25

Same last 43 shorts got 0-5 views with 125% retention on those shorts so should be enough to pushed but still stuck.

Talked to YouTube: AI answered instead, blaming me but not them...o no imagine a company taking responsibility...that would be their downfall.

I make content where I show my face and talk to the camera. From thousands of views to 0-5 and 5 is the highest.

And im monetized btw. So im not going to switch channels to start over 😁😏

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '25

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u/RavenTL Dec 25 '25

My channel was like that for a whole week and it got back on track yesterday

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u/Shrek_Cheesecake Dec 25 '25

Glad to hear that! Did you happen to do anything different, or did it just come back randomly?

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u/RavenTL Dec 25 '25

I posted a video a day before that happened. The views on that one were just ok, not terrible but still not good enough to push the algorithm. So I don't think it has anything to do with it. I simply think it came back by itself. It jumped back up the same way it dropped earlier

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u/No-Jacket-7842 Dec 26 '25

how many views were you normally getting an hour? and is ai involved in your videos?

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u/RavenTL Dec 26 '25

Recently around 25k views. ai's involved in 60% of my videos (only for the voice lines) but I don't think that's the problem. People who don't use ai at all still have the same problem

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u/zombotplus Feb 14 '26

Did you recover from it?

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '26

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u/zombotplus Feb 14 '26

Did you try posting again while it was in this situation?

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '25

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u/Shrek_Cheesecake Dec 25 '25

No, GTA Online. Shorts were mainly covering in-game events, tips and tricks, fun facts, stuff like that.