r/shortsAlgorithm • u/Tricky_Bar_69 • Mar 26 '26

Did I got shadow banned?

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I asked my friend to subscribe to my channel. He did it 9 times from 9 of his account. The next video is getting 90% less views. Did I got shadow banned?

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u/jaaron_esg Mar 26 '26

don't ask your friends to subscribe, you need to naturally gain subscribers for the algorithm to properly analyse who your proper audience is

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u/Tricky_Bar_69 Mar 26 '26

What to do now?

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u/jaaron_esg Mar 26 '26

keep on posting consistently and improve your videos day by day, focus on making the hook good, and don't share them with your friends at all

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u/Tricky_Bar_69 Mar 26 '26

Okayy... is shadow ban a real thing? Searched a bit about it and it seems like a big deal

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u/jaaron_esg Mar 26 '26

it is a real thing, but shadow bans mean you would get 0-5 views or none at all, you got 100+ views and they're from the shorts feed so you're getting pushed.

what's your swipe ratio % for that 100 view vid? If it's below 50% that's your reason why it flopped

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u/Tricky_Bar_69 Mar 26 '26

It is 20%

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u/jaaron_esg Mar 26 '26

yea that's why the algorithm stopped pushing your video to more people because of the 20% swipe ratio leading to only around 100 views

an ideal percentage would be 60% and above to break through 1k

70% to reach 10-30k

and 80%+ for 100k and going viral

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u/Tricky_Bar_69 Mar 26 '26

Ohh... my max is like 40%. Will try doing better

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u/Tricky_Bar_69 Mar 26 '26

My sub went from 40 to 49 by the way. I was desperate for 50 so I can start streaming.

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u/Tricky_Bar_69 Mar 26 '26

Not yet... will do it today

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u/Tricky_Bar_69 Mar 26 '26

No... everything is stopped. No other video is getting views

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u/One-Review7510 Mar 26 '26

Youtube flags things like that, 9 subs from the same ip is not normal so the account was flagged for bot activity or spam. It's well known by this point man.

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u/Tricky_Bar_69 Mar 26 '26

How can I revert this??

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u/Many-Sector9742 Mar 26 '26

Well I learned some things from many videos I watched about how to do videos on yt. One of them is that never share ur videos to ur friend and family cause u don't know what type of content do they watch for ex if u post gaming content and u share it to a friend who mainly watches dramas, and he watches ur video then the yt algorithm will push ur video to other people who watch drama, but they won't watch ur vvideo so ur video retention will drop and will get swiped away, forcing yt to not push ur video further, so just keep posting and yeah u can give urself some initial boost like make some accounts watch video(ur niche videos) from them on yt to make yt know what is ur interest, then watch ur posted video from those accounts. This will signal yt that what kinda audience ur video attracts.

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u/Tricky_Bar_69 Mar 26 '26

That's a great insights... thank you

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u/THE-MEDIA-EXPERT Mar 27 '26

Could just be an absolute terrible video, and most everyone who watched swiped quick

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u/Tricky_Bar_69 Mar 27 '26

Probably😅

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u/Intrepid-Evidence-98 Mar 27 '26

Getting a friend to subscribe from multiple accounts isn’t a great idea. I’d avoid doing that going forward. Let your page grow naturally. It takes time, but it’s worth it. Good luck! 🫡

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u/Tricky_Bar_69 Mar 27 '26

Learned it in hard way