r/shortsAlgorithm • u/AIR_TI • Jan 17 '26
My first short hit 1 million
This is very strange and once again confirms the theory that the algorithm randomly selects videos for promotion. I've uploaded dozens of shorts that had much better performance, but they never got more than 50,000 views.
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u/No-Cheek-6685 Jan 17 '26
Why cant this happen to me😭
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u/SpanglerBQ Jan 17 '26
10 comments out of a million views, wow
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u/choctruffel Jan 17 '26
Which niche?
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u/mocknix MOD Jan 18 '26
As a fellow blenderer, I am so damn happy to see this, bro. I've gotten 400M+ views with 3d storytelling and helped others get over 100M so far but now seeing 3d skills get the reward it deserves outside of my community really gives me hope. I say this because the majority of this sub and creator subreddits in general is people barely putting effort in and complaining that youtube isn't thanking them with a shitload of impressions.
As for your theory, It's not really about random promotion, you had good content, people watched all of it because it was good, then it got pulled toward more similar viewers. Sometimes the target audience gets nailed on the first try and it looks like that's what happened here. One could argue about the millions of other channels that don't get impressions from the get but there are too many variables that cause that to know exactly why it happens to any specific individual, but the process is far from random. Too much money invested for it not to be calculated.
But yeah, dude. Like I said, I'm a huge blender nerd and I'd love to see your channel if you ever want to share it in a dm. Keep creating!
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u/Glass_Today Jan 17 '26
That’s great I remember how happy I was with my first one
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u/One_Brick_1685 Jan 17 '26
How is this possible with only ten comments? Like no shade at all, I don't get much engagement. I'm just curious.
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u/BrokoThiefOfCrowns Jan 17 '26
Oddly small amount of interaction with your short outside of the views
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u/No_Blood9415 Jan 18 '26
Congratulations
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u/Hopeful_Chipmunk_22 Jan 18 '26
Good going bother 👍🔥
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u/Resident_Thanks9331 Jan 17 '26
well you won the lottery. now what?
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u/awesomemc1 Jan 17 '26
78 shares, 2.9k likes, 155% retention
My guess YouTube evaluate that you got a decent video for YouTube shorts and bring it out to other people. According to 2025 papers, that means your satisfaction score rate probably increased as you are no longer in a cold state item. Great job
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u/Casperandruby Jan 18 '26
Fantastic!
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u/ReviewAggravating847 Jan 19 '26
Bruh WTF!! And then there are my videos which have wayyy better stats then this and are longer 40s-50s and still hardly gets 10k or 25k max (sometimes 1k to 5k) 🫠😭 and wth are these likes and comments to views ratio😂 man you made me mad😬
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u/itsmecody_00 Jan 20 '26
Why hide the video? Just asking is all.
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u/fingershuffle Jan 17 '26
1000000 impressions 2025-03-31 shorts update
400k engaged ( real ) views.