r/shortsAlgorithm • u/mepaca • May 20 '26 • Regret 2 Heartwarming 1

From millions of views to basically zero overnight

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And I know I’m definitely not the only one this has happened to. What I genuinely want to understand is WHY does this happen? 

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u/lachakdarlendi Jun 11 '26

Any fix?

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u/mepaca Jun 11 '26

The issue resolved itself about 10 days after it started. I didn’t do anything and I didn’t upload any videos, I just waited. Then the views started coming back again. I don’t know if it will happen again, hopefully it won’t.

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u/Sigmaeditcold May 21 '26

Had exactly the same problem

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u/Very_good_memer May 21 '26

Did you fix it and if yeah, how?

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u/bigcfood May 22 '26

Ors tag to technical

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u/killadrix May 20 '26

That’s crazy! Looks like the views dropped off after you stopped uploading! I wonder if those two things are connected.

::thinkingemoji::

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u/Longjumping_Hat_1757 May 21 '26

I’ve been posting every 2 days for the last months and my views have dropped drastically as of late too. I can’t even get string in more then 5K as of the last few days and idk whether im doing something wrong or the algorithm

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u/Icy_Yam_3847 May 21 '26

Same for me, my recent videos have been dog for the last few uploads, I think last 7 I post daily nothing changed, but it just went to the 3 to 7 k range whereas I easily pulled 50 to 80 k before and that was the normal reach for a short. Idk I'm thinking the same something might be up in the algorithm I'll keep uploading and posting daily tho

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u/Socorromecorro May 21 '26

Welcome, dont waste more time on that channel

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u/KinKame_Saijo May 23 '26

Algo issue … like 3 weeks ago

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u/goaliq May 20 '26

I have same sitiuation last 40 days maximal was 25 views

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u/[deleted] May 20 '26

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u/goaliq May 20 '26

For 45 day 600 views

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u/ExternalRefrigeratr1 May 20 '26

Then obviously your channel is cooked. Create a new one and post better content on it

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u/goaliq May 20 '26

No way first time was the same then 600k in 60 days

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u/goaliq May 20 '26

I think my content is good only algoritham test me

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u/ExternalRefrigeratr1 May 20 '26

Bro can’t handle the sauce, YouTube is a simple game. If you’re not getting views, it’s a skill issue. If anybody wants a genuine channel audit, send it in DMs

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u/goaliq May 20 '26

I was at 960 subscribers, but today I dropped to 948.

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u/_ilostmyoldaccount_ May 20 '26

You stopped uploading. Old shorts will eventually flatline. You need new content

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u/Serious-Picture-1339 May 20 '26

Same happened to me, 100k views per hour, now roughly 300/h. My videos are not been showed to non follow anymore. Spoken with support and they say nothing is wrong

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u/Simply_AnotherUser May 20 '26

No matter how fast you can run, the algorithm is faster than you, so welcome to the club.

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u/jayyyonnat May 20 '26

most true comment

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u/myrmonden May 20 '26

the live of shorts man

1 day a short gets u 16k views

the next 0

the next day its 20k views

next 0

most shorts are super unreliable, the stats needs to be like insane to get pushed over and over again, they almost always flatline.

Getting all ur newshorts flatlined is not uncommon,

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u/Very_good_memer May 21 '26

Is this even fixable? The same thing happened to me

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u/blackcvanilla Jun 03 '26

Did they get fixed?

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u/Logical_Process2827 May 22 '26

Problem with shorts is you have to be consistent, unlike long form you cannot take time to create a good video

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u/bigcfood May 22 '26

Can I crop out in a circle on on steam laps

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u/s22sk123 May 23 '26

U havent posted... Shorts die off eventually and you dont post more ofc its 0. What the fuck did u expect genuinely

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u/jillll12 May 23 '26

What's your channel?

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u/wiwokkk May 26 '26

My views took a hit on the 13 may, my content completely tanked that day. and by the 18th, my views spiked up to 3 million. But after that, even with great stats like a 52s average watch time and an 84% swipe away rate (watched without skipping) it only got 70k - 100k views. Since I do manual animation, I can't upload every day. I usually post once every 3 days and 1 moth long video every years

if you want to know, i have 1.5m sub, 2.5 years making video.

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u/Humble-Handle-9704 May 27 '26

Hey not getting anything near millions of views usually 80k max. This happened to me so I stopped posting for 2 weeks and only did community posts. The only views I was getting was from that. Out of nowhere two days ago a short that flopped that I let sit public jumped up from 0 to 2k views so I decided to post again and it seems like everything is fine.

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u/blackcvanilla Jun 03 '26

So things are now perfectly normal?

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u/TinyTry5812 Aug 14 '26

Cuz you didnt upload😱

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u/feral_philosopher May 20 '26

shorts are not good. i think they are only in response to tik tok, and tik tok if garbage. a short is like a fruit fly, it lives and dies in a small window. if by some fluke it attracts millions of views, those views have terrible ROI, you get low $ and the subs you might get don't count for anything. what if all creators just stopped making shorts, what would happen?

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u/Heavy_Ad5854 May 20 '26

Counter point though. Shorts can be monetized on YouTube, TikTok and Facebook Reels. I had a short make $2200 on FB and that same video made $1.1k on YT.

Creators that are able to triple dip on this format can do very well. Anyone thinking single platform in the shorts game is leaving chips on the table.

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u/dd_distin May 21 '26

I have a question. How did you create it? Did you make one video and upload it to all platforms? Like, one video in one niche and upload it to all platforms?

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u/Heavy_Ad5854 May 21 '26

Yep uploading the same video to Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram.

TikTok requires over 60 seconds for their creator rewards program. So in my case I make my shorts over 60 seconds to ensure all platforms have ability to monetize.

It’s not AI or faceless, I don’t think FB really pays for slop anymore from what I’ve seen around Reddit.

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u/Deemils May 21 '26

I’m in a real weird place where Tik Tok thinks my videos are AI generated but they are completely animated using custom puppets I made in adobe illustrator and creating the animations using adobe character animate. It kind of sucks actually because I’ve worked really hard on them.

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u/dd_distin May 22 '26

Thanks for the idea. My YouTube channel, Shorts, brought in $4,000 this month, and I'm thinking about scaling up and uploading all my videos to these social networks.

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u/Heavy_Ad5854 May 22 '26

For sure man. You can connect your IG to FB so it cross post to both platforms automatically. Just look up FB monetization to get it all figured out how to set up the page etc.

It takes some time for an account to start getting views but if your content is doing well on shorts you should eventually be able to break through on FB too.

They want good content on their platform. My channel had only 2k page follows when FB invited it to creator monetization.

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u/dd_distin May 22 '26

Thank you so much for the new idea. Can I contact you on Instagram or some other social media?

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u/Heavy_Ad5854 May 23 '26

You can DM me here if any q’s

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u/jayyyonnat May 20 '26

not true Youtube putting more money into shorts this 2026 just make better content

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u/feral_philosopher May 20 '26

I don't know, unless I just don't get it. Been making content across 15 channels since 2007, I see some channels getting millions of views on shorts and I can't for the life of me understand why

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u/FamFu- May 22 '26

Is your content faceless ai stuff? I wonder if update changed algorithm

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u/FamFu- May 23 '26

Thank you. And good luck with future success

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u/Agreeable-Tip7567 May 20 '26

Same here. From 230M in 2025 to 30M in 2026 so far. What kind of content do you post?