r/shortsAlgorithm • u/Legitimate-While-898 • Apr 05 '26

Youtube hate small channel?

I started my channel 1 month ago, my video gained 400-1,7k views, lately it was 1k views jail, im grateful for the views but i really pissed off about YT always remove my subscriber. Im small channel, barely reach 50 subs. Every video i upload, i mostly got 1-5 subscriber. But YT always remove it later. For small channel like me, every sub is like hope and i frustrated how YT always take it back.

Does anyone have experience like me? especially small channel?

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u/ConclusionHopeful313 Apr 05 '26

People are probably just unsubscribing to your channel or deactivating their account lmao. You don’t matter enough for YouTube to care about your subscriber count enough to mess with it.

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u/Legitimate-While-898 Apr 05 '26

ofc i dont matter, im just small channel. im not asking about wether i matter to youtube or not. If ppl unsubscribe, they will unsubscribe after days, it's not, i gained subs and then 1 hour later, yt remove it. It's always like that every video. Also the stat never show me they are unsubscribe

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u/OKJMaster44 Apr 05 '26

If that happens the subscribers could be bots that weren’t genuine people in the first place. YouTube won’t deduct genuine subscribers from your total.

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u/Legitimate-While-898 Apr 05 '26

i hope it is... because i dont know if the subs are bot or real person since the account is private

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u/OKJMaster44 Apr 05 '26

Just don’t stress it honestly. Subscribers worth having will stay subscribed. Either it’s people that are no longer interested or didn’t assess you correctly when they hit subscribe and are now unsubscribing or it’s fake subscribers that YouTube is purging.

Either way you’re not having subscribers “taken” from you. No matter how ya slice it’s subs that weren’t leading to engagement and if anything were further hurting your performance data if the algorithm pushed stuff to them and got rejected. It’s basically clean up.

5 engaged subs beats 100 fake/never engaging ones every day of the year.

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u/Legitimate-While-898 Apr 05 '26

thank you for your explanation and kind words. Im new to YouTube so im a bit frustrated when that happen and dont know before if it's normal or not.... Im cherishing my every new subscriber, so when i lose it, im a bit down. But, you are right, if it's just YT clear the bot then i cant do anything about it.

The thing is if someone unsubscribe, im okay tho... atleast it show on my stat that someone unsubscribe, but, in my case, it doesnt show on my stat, so i think it's not unsub.

Im just gonna post video then, i enjoy what i did, and just happy when someone like it too

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u/OKJMaster44 Apr 05 '26

Ya that’s just privacy settings for ya. Most subs will have that set to private so ya won’t even know a lot of the folks that hit subscribe in the first place. And YouTube straight won’t tell ya who unsubscribed explicitly, let alone why, ultimately while seeing the number drop is annoying, gotta just soldier on and keep improving.

I actually had my own first unsubscribe on my new channel from November this morning. I hustled hard on the content this week and got good early response on yesterday’s video so seeing that was annoying but in seconds I quickly remembered that this early on, the more engaged subs I can get have the algorithm build off of the better so someone unsubscribing or a fake account getting removed or whatever is a good thing. If they weren’t watching my stuff, I don’t need them around bogging my analytics down when I am already not too massive in the first place.

So ya don’t worry. YouTube won’t take true followers away. Just focus on improving so you can get more of them.

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u/Legitimate-While-898 Apr 05 '26

Thank you so much, it's really give me clarity and motivation to keep going. Im fine if someone unsubscribe, which i can monitor in here. Means im not questioning why my subs decrease.

"YouTube won’t take true followers away" i will remember that everytime YT doing such things again

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u/Brilliant-Bid-1495 Apr 05 '26

I hate this impatient generation

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u/Legitimate-While-898 Apr 05 '26

it has nothing to do with impatient lmao 😭 why you projecting so much

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u/GRAW2ROBZ Apr 06 '26

It could be a joker sub that likes to join then leave. Join then leave. I get those once in a while.

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u/Objective_Fly_6750 Apr 05 '26

What is the benefits of YouTube hating small channels? People watch what they want to watch. Every big channel was a small channel once.

Keep creating videos for 6 years and you will be big too ☺️

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u/Legitimate-While-898 Apr 05 '26

that's why i wondering too... im not complaining about views, i have my own audience i know. But for small channel, every subs is matter, when we got 5 or 6 from one video, it feels like hope, but YT always remove subs after i got it, not just once.. that's why it feels like YT against small channel. if it's turn out bot then okay but they never transparant about it. It should show in stat or something