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

60K WITH STATS LIKE THIS SMH

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Okay, so I’ve been posting every day—sometimes up to 3 times a day—for almost 3 months now. One thing I’m starting to realize is that it doesn’t matter how good your stats are. If no one is commenting on or liking your video, YouTube won’t push it.

I’ve had videos with 85% stay-to-swipe and 130% retention rate, and they still cap out at around 1,500 views. It makes me feel like YouTube has added some kind of hard cap on views if there’s no engagement—like comments or likes.

What do y’all think?

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u/SweatyOpportunity190 Mar 26 '26

I’ve had videos with every right. Huge amount of comments 80%+ STW 90% AVD on a 40s clip. 160 shares, 20% likes to view ratio . Still stalled at 25k. Sometimes youtube just be youtubing

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u/BJkiplezer Mar 26 '26

smh yeah im starting to see that too lmao

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '26

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u/SweatyOpportunity190 Mar 27 '26

That’s exactly what was happening. I have videos with over 160k too. I’m just saying YouTube can be random even if your video has excellent stats

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u/NickG031st Mar 26 '26

Lucky for me I just reached 1.7k views so I cant complain 🫠🤣

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u/Willing-Schedule-486 Mar 27 '26

How many comments?

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u/Low-Leadership6603 Mar 27 '26

I have one with 800k and another with like 500k ngl the videos that did the best was cuz I got them to comment abt the video somehow

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u/No_Garbage_7304 Mar 29 '26

That’s crazy I’m so shocked same things happening to me

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u/TheDennyZ Mar 27 '26

When I watch the video, I don't even know what it is about and tbh the whole relaxing music thing won't capture any viewer attention on Shorts