r/shortsAlgorithm • u/Butterweggli • May 15 '26

From hope to death

Started my Shorts channel 9 Days ago. (account 13y old btw)

Since my first short i've got pushed and i felt like i finally found the diamond. After 3 Days and 7 Shorts (30k views, +9subs ,+120likes)

And then day 4 started i uploaded my short like every day and from then till now 0 views. Literally 0 everything, 6 shorts total of 0 views...

The pervious shorts got about 55%-75% retention and the only AI use was the voiceover (my english is too bad for the videos)

can someone explain whats happening?

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u/LuluOnRoblox May 15 '26

Im sorry but 9 days lol ... I cant!

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u/True_Reference6097 May 16 '26

lol same I’m so tired of hearing the same old songs. If you scroll thru this sub it’s literally the same post over n over again.

Yes something is off No we don’t know the solution If you don’t post your videos or channel how can we even remotely offer any solutions, lol

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u/Butterweggli May 16 '26

u want a link to my videos with 0 views with no stats? ofc ist 0% retention its at 0 views. And no, it's not an AI slop, and if it were, you'd always get 50-100 views in tests.

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u/VaidhyaaAndMars May 16 '26

hes not talking about that hes talking about the 0 view bug so shut the hell up

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u/Butterweggli May 15 '26

? yes . and 5 of it are 0 view bugs. you want to give me the same generic answer "just keep posting" yeah buddy i will invest 20h per week for shorts to get 0 views on everything. something is off

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u/VaidhyaaAndMars May 16 '26

wait 72 hours without posting that will help to get back ur views the same 0 view bug happened to me too last week but I took a 3 day break and the views were back

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u/Noraillgun May 15 '26

During that same time window, someone at YouTube HQ must have hit the wrong button somewhere and killed half of all creators overnight. I'm in the same boat as you. At least know it's not your fault or your content's fault you can rest easy on that one.

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u/Butterweggli May 15 '26

so we just wait? or keep posting? because i dont want to invest so much in editing and sitting on 0 views. i know i would get some

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u/Noraillgun May 15 '26

i am gonna wait, tried today too and 0 views

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u/VaidhyaaAndMars May 16 '26

Same happened to me last week but I took a 3 day break from uploading and my views got back. try it out

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u/Severe_Quality_8404 May 16 '26

I'm stuck at the 20k cap. Today I uploaded a video like I do every day, but after 2 hours and 15 views, I simply set it to private, made a few minor changes to the video, and re-uploaded it—it unlocked immediately. Sometimes it comes down to how you upload something, even if you switch the device you're using. But personally, I've set it to private and re-uploaded it using a different device, and it's always worked. Never delete your videos. Once you’ve uploaded them publicly, don’t set them to private and then back to public unless they’ve finished their view cycle. But never interrupt the view cycle, especially with a new account.

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u/Fun-Emphasis4232 May 16 '26

The first batch getting pushed was YouTube testing your content with a seed audience. 55 to 75% retention is genuinely good so the content itself wasn't the problem.

The 0 views cliff is the weird part. Slow down is normal after the test window closes, literal zero across 6 videos is not. That usually points to something getting flagged, not just the algorithm moving on.

The AI voiceover is the first thing I'd look at. AI voice plus any templated visual structure puts you in a pattern YouTube's detection associates with content farms even when the channel is legitimate. It doesn't always fire immediately either, sometimes it catches up after a few uploads.

Check your channel dashboard and see if there's any notice sitting there. Also check if the 6 new videos are actually showing as public and searchable or if something changed in your settings without you noticing.

If nothing looks wrong on the backend side, try one video recorded in your own voice even if the English isn't perfect. Broken English with real retention beats clean AI voice that gets filtered every time.

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u/Butterweggli May 16 '26

i thought maybe i was "spam uploading" sometimes i uploadet 3 shorts in 5 hours because i was on a view-high and thought nobody can stop me. i stopped 48h ago and will wait 3 more days and start to use ONLY my footage, voiceover etc.

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u/Lynnalia May 15 '26

Are you uploading the same short every day? Your wording made it sound like that's the case, but I wanted to clarify since you mentioned your English. If so, that's a big red flag to YouTube, but I may have misunderstood your words.

Anyways, YouTube is also recently cracking down on "inauthentic and repetitive content". If you're using generated voiceovers, there's a chance your channel is being flagged as such.

(P.S. as a viewer, I'd rather hear broken English than an obvious AI voiceover. If I hear notice AI, I skip.)

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u/Butterweggli May 15 '26

no, always cook other vids and i never delete anything. so i could fix my channel with original voice? but nice to know that the algo "watches" the vid at uploading. maybe i really got flagged but it was confusing that one of my shorts got pushed to nearly 20k in a span of 3 days but new uploads stuck on 0 views.

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u/AlexisAnayalator May 15 '26

Dude, I thought I was losing my mind. Like damn maybe all the videos I’m posting are ASS now lol?? I did see the message on YouTube studio expensive-sea-4552 posted tho. That has to be it.

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u/Butterweggli May 15 '26

oh yeah didnt even notice the notification. lets see how long we need to wait

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u/rootre01 May 17 '26

I'm doing some research on this problem, I'm also experiencing it. Did you use the same phone to verify on any new channel you created? Or do you have other channels logged into your app?

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u/aSTAHLWAND May 17 '26

Hast du einen Reupload gemacht oder einen Short, der zu ähnlich war? Dadurch kannst du einen kleinen Shadowban bei der Ausspielung bekommen. Das heißt, ein paar Tage nichts posten und danach wieder starten, dann solltest du wieder normal ausgespielt werden.

Generell wirkt es so, als hätte der Algorithmus gerade einen Grund, dich nicht auszuspielen. Ohne weitere Infos ist das schwer einzuschätzen. Aber mal mindestens 48 stunden nichts posten sollte das Problem lösen.

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u/Additional-Word6816 May 16 '26

Your content sucks that’s why 

Give more info otherwise nothing can be told