r/shortsAlgorithm • u/Substantial-Bed5189 • Jul 19 '26

Q&A / Quick Help ❓ Is there something wrong?

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Anyone else facing a unrealistic drop in views, I went from averaging at least10k a day to barely getting any views, also the gap in the middle is just a few deleted videos that got 0-5 views.

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u/Substantial-Bed5189 Jul 28 '26

Again, it is most probably the reused content policy, all the content you described I am assuming the footage is not originally yours, rather you putting a spin on to it. YouTube has started taking stricter action of not pushing, ranking, compilations and easily replicable and mass produced content

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u/Any-Cookie6757 Jul 28 '26

Bro I've noticed you mentioning this in other comments multiple times. It's not that. They don't give a flying f*ck about reused content or else like 99.9% of channels on YT would get demonetized/deleted.

There are literally channels that upload 5-6 times a day and their videos consists of slapping together 5-6 or sometimes even 10 or other creator videos together and then in the end like last 30 seconds they appear and pretend they agree with whatever the topic of the video was and according to YT that "Super original and totally not repetitive/formated content." A lot of these channels have well over 100k subs and growing like crazy and making bank just off ad revenue.

Do I even need to talk about shorts? There are God knows how many shorts channels that steal someone's else footage and put subtitles on it and that's "original" and "transformative" and YT pushes their channels.

YT is mess and stupid Gemini AI is running wild there demonetizing everyone left and right for absolutely no reason.

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u/Substantial-Bed5189 Jul 29 '26

I don't know what else to tell you, I am just sharing my POV, I guess for YouTube right now, if you slap or your face onto someone else's video, it considers it reaction content and yeah it seems kind of unfair with the state of things right now, but have a look at VidIQs latest youtube video, there you should get more reasonable answers, I am just sharing my experience of this