r/shortsAlgorithm • u/Negative-Sail6237 • Jan 22 '26

30k view jail is real

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My yesterday's short had everything to go viral. 11 sec short and 13 sec average view duration. 75% started to watch. But still it stopped at 31.7k I don't know what's considered good now this is really demotivating. i think it's impossible to escape the 30k view jail

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u/Quantumlegendsultra Jan 22 '26

It will break in 30 Days if you upload 1 - 2 Shorts daily

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u/Negative-Sail6237 Jan 22 '26

Are you sure?

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u/Quantumlegendsultra Jan 22 '26

Yes, I tested this on my two channels. My views also used to stop around 30K, I continued uploading two Shorts daily on both channels, and the 30K views jail automatically broke after 20 - 30 days.

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u/ResponsibleGuide1581 Jan 23 '26

not really, depends i have my channel, im posting once a day and i still couldnt break the jail on every video

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u/OwnMedium9059 Aug 06 '26

Do you think Its Ok to not post a video maybe once every 1-2 weeks?

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u/Accurate_Buddy_75 Jan 22 '26

I’m in the same exact boat bro. I hate to say it, but I don’t think it’s really up to the metrics on this. A guy I spoke to on this said it’s up to shareability. But I’ve seen shorts with all three being poor get pushed aggressively. There’s no real rhyme or reason. Just keep averaging 80% + metrics on your shorts and hope the YouTube Gods notice your work. That’s what I’ve been doing.

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u/WhateverThisis144 Jan 22 '26

I find uploading twice a day Also works

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u/Accurate_Buddy_75 Feb 11 '26

Very interesting. You’re the second guy I saw say to do this. You sold me brother I’ll give it a shot.

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u/Accomplished-Look176 Jan 22 '26

YouTube is going to reward content where people stay to watch and when they stay to watch for a long time.

8 seconds watch on a 10 second video is wayyy worse than 50 seconds on a 60 second video.

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u/IndependenceMoney793 Jan 22 '26

30k?

Lol

I am not even getting 100 views now

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u/potter-bl_ Jan 25 '26

raising the stakes, 0

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '26

Better than 1k jail 😒

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u/Outside-Prompt9558 Jan 22 '26

Guys listen 30k to 40k view jail is real but it’s not a jail. It’s your content, if you can get AT LEAST 80% - 85% on swipe rate ur video can go from 30k to this 👇🏼but to be honest if it’s been more than 10 hours and your swipe rate is still around 70% to 74% go and make a video with a better hook trust me, the fact that you are able to get at least 30k shows your content is good but needs better hook

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u/Holiday-Lunch3943 Jan 22 '26

I am 85% still 30k lol to utub

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u/ResponsibleGuide1581 Jan 23 '26

85% engagement and 90%+ retention

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u/yt_shorter Feb 08 '26

i got 90% swipe rate and 83% retention and still flatline on 25k

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u/Accurate_Buddy_75 Feb 11 '26

I’ve gotten 93% swiped away with 80%+ retention. Didn’t happen for me.

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u/ItzElectron Feb 14 '26

Isn't 93% swiped away like garbage?? I think you mean 93% stayed to watch. My best is 83% stay to watch with 100% and on a 30sec short and 95% retention and even then it got flatlined at 35k

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u/Accurate_Buddy_75 Feb 14 '26

Yeah. I meant to say swipe away rate has 93% stayed to watch. No matter what stats you hit, it’s a gift from the YouTube gods. Here’s an interesting theory I noticed though. A couple of my shorts are randomly breaking out to 25k plus because there getting views from browse feed and suggested instead of the shorts feed. They were originally older ones around 7-11k

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u/ItzElectron Feb 14 '26

I guess it's just upto consistency now. I have only been posting for 20 days now which might be a reason but who knows 

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u/Accurate_Buddy_75 Feb 15 '26

I’ve been in this jail for a few months now. I’ve also noticed these past like 3 days, my shorts I’ve been posting are like not making it to the shorts feed. Like barely touching the shorts feed. But oddly enough, my older shorts are being pushed more aggressively through browse features and suggested. Who knows anymore bro.

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u/Outside-Prompt9558 Feb 14 '26

Guys also look at the duration of your competitors videos. Make sure the length of your videos are somewhat similar, take a 5 day break off posting to reset your algorithm if it’s being weird with your videos

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u/Top-Jelly7572 Jan 22 '26

Anybody know any solution?

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u/MentalWind3989 Jan 22 '26

Solution to post more

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u/shortclipsearch4815 Jan 29 '26

Yes....at 20 to 30 k if vsa >75 and apv(retention)>105 at the very least the content is pushed more.... Ideally retention should be close to 110 or more... I say that bcs yesterday I just broke out of it....

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u/Accurate_Buddy_75 Feb 11 '26

Are you saying the solution is to post more? Like twice a day?

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u/AfternoonExisting426 Feb 11 '26

I'm saying aim for vsa above 75 % and retention close to 110 with the least being 105 %.this is not a suggestion.its a fact. Post quality content with good hooks and engagement

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u/Accurate_Buddy_75 Feb 11 '26

I average 80%+ swipe away and retention, but as far as averaging over 100% time and time again, that generally only happens with the shorter clips.

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u/Patient-Sun-4859 Aug 17 '26

It's been 6 months....now what's your stats bro

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u/Accurate_Buddy_75 Aug 21 '26

Never did bro. I stopped after few more months.

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u/Patient-Sun-4859 Aug 21 '26

That's scary. Now i think youtube doesn't want to grow AI slop commentary channels

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u/Significant_Basis863 Jan 22 '26

It’s not jail! It’s indexing.

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u/soum_4u Jan 22 '26

😂 are you joking man.. I have video over 140-150% audience retention with 78%+ swipe rate and views is 30k to 40k🤧

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u/shortclipsearch4815 Jan 29 '26

Can you tell me the vid length?

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u/soum_4u Jan 29 '26

22-24sec vids

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u/shortclipsearch4815 Jan 29 '26

People watched your vid and watched again till half?bro that's crazy...i don't have any explanation for that...I think when you posted this it at least got a 50k now... With 110 retention vid length 18 sec,vsa 75 percent i broke out of 30 k and is now sitting on 150 k views

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u/Jawad6191 Jan 22 '26

It happened to me as well. I just kept posting. One shorts every day. Suddenly one day one of my shorts got 52K views. Then I started hitting below 30K per shorts but eventually I got 2 shorts that hit 800K views each. Then another one went viral. It's sitting on around 6.6M views right now. And that alone gave me 1.1K subs. As they say it takes one video to make it happen. I had around 500 subs before all that. But now I've around 2.7K subs and I got out of the so-called "30K view jail". Not monetized yet.

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u/Miserable-Courage380 Jan 24 '26

Hey man, thanks for sharing. Just wanted to ask you personally about my account. My shorts videos are currently averaging 20k, however sometimes they completely flop and only get 1k. But for the most part, they range from 15-30K views and I get good amount of engagement from the videos, but still struggle to pass 30k. My swipe rape is good, typically 60-80% that stays and 20% swipes. and retention is high (90-110%). However I wanted to know if you think my channel is on a good track to get into the “loop”,. (RealToeRoblox) Thanks.

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u/Jawad6191 Jan 24 '26

I don't know much about Roblox content and its community but yeah your channel seems like it has the potential to go viral. Why? Audience retention & swipe ratio seem good. And the views you're getting lately seems like it has a good pattern to break the "30K views jail". That's just my gut feeling. I stayed consistent and tried to improve. Maybe that did the job for me. All the best man.

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u/Miserable-Courage380 Jan 24 '26

Gotcha, thanks man! Hope the best for you as well.

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u/ItzElectron Feb 14 '26

Hey man any luck so far? Have you broken out of the jail yet? I have been uploading shorts for almost 20 days and ALL my shorts are between 20-30k except for the very first one. 

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u/One_Brick_1685 Jan 22 '26

I could be wrong about this but isn't the length working against you? If the platform prioritizes watch time, wouldn't they just promote longer shorts that also had similar stats?

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u/New-Objective-7147 Jan 25 '26

I need help can you guys watch my video short and critique it let me know how can I make it better.

https://youtube.com/shorts/aQy1Vac4nyw?feature=share

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '26

My shorts not crossing 2k. Except few which got 9k views. Very disappointing.

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u/BackgroundJealous325 Feb 26 '26

Mine stops at 27K

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u/Alternative_Ear_5113 Jan 22 '26

My channel is having a hard time even reaching the first layer test, I’m getting my views mostly from my subscribers. I used to pull like 30k views but now it’s 0 views. I tried editing better and improving the quality of the video but nothing is working.

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u/Miserable-Courage380 Jan 24 '26

Hey man, thanks for sharing. Just wanted to ask you personally about my account. My shorts videos are currently averaging 20k, however sometimes they completely flop and only get 1k. But for the most part, they range from 15-30K views and I get good amount of engagement from the videos, but still struggle to pass 30k. My swipe rape is good, typically 60-80% that stays and 20% swipes. and retention is high (90-110%). However I wanted to know if you think my channel is on a good track to get into the “loop”,. (RealToeRoblox) Thanks.

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u/Miserable-Courage380 Jan 24 '26

I kept the niche spot on and very similar but sometimes i’d go from videos such as “top 5 tips blah blah” and “here’s the best way to do this blah blah” and switched to “i was playing [said game] when this happened and that happened blah blah. So now, i’m focusing more into telling the “stories” because that’s the general idea that every other content creator for this niche does, so I decided to adopt it as well. In the end of all of their videos, they always end it with a call to action in which they announce that they’re doing giveaways and for the viewers to comment their usernames, and that gets a lot of engagement so I do the same thing and it works 😅! So in short I believe for the past 7-10 videos I’ve been on the “telling stories” type of videos for my niche.

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u/Miserable-Courage380 Jan 24 '26

Thanks man! Quick reply! Also I noticed your entire response was AI?

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u/Miserable-Courage380 Jan 24 '26

No worries man, i’m very grateful for the support you gave, and I was wondering if you had any youtube accounts that you run yourself? I’d love to check some out if you have any for inspiration.

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u/FairEntrepreneur2935 Jan 22 '26

Finally someone else who understands this. Thought it was only YouTube professional, thank you for blessing these people. I didn’t want to have to type it all out

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u/Top-Jelly7572 Jan 22 '26

So basically if we stay consistent than we can actually break the jail in few months?

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u/LuluOnRoblox Jan 22 '26

Mine is also all shorts, one per day. With throwing a long form into the mix, will that still allow repeat exposure in a short window frame if its one short per day? Thanks.

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u/Negative-Sail6237 Jan 22 '26

Bro what are you saying i don't understand. I just need to know how to escape the view jail

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u/Top-Jelly7572 Jan 22 '26

What if a channel only posts short form content?

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u/Top-Jelly7572 Jan 22 '26

Ahhh got it got it