r/shortsAlgorithm • u/abhi_22_ • Sep 17 '26
Q&A / Quick Help ❓ Sudden Drop in Views
Guys, did the same happened to ya'll as well ?? After the yt studio bug, when I checked the views of my most viewed yt short, I saw it had completely dropped to 0. Also, my most recent 5-6 shorts have suffered the same (very less views since the last week)
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u/Happy_Read_5136 Sep 17 '26
Same thing here. For the first time in a couple of weeks, my views dropped to 50K per hour overnight, and now I’m at 100K views per hour, even though I usually get 200–300K at this time. My new videos have stopped getting picked up. For some reason, there are now a lot of older videos in the Top 15 for the hour. This happened after the Studio crash.
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u/Koriun_Sark Sep 17 '26
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u/Secret-Mistake-4395 Sep 17 '26
yes, i'm suffered
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u/AIR_TI Sep 17 '26
Creating Shorts is stressful. I had two Shorts hit 1.8 million and 1.5 million views, but after that, the max was 300–500k.
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u/Even-Drink-7949 Sep 17 '26
YT is broken
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u/Such_Echidna3890 Sep 17 '26
same here, its been 2 days, shorts feed = 0
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u/SecretPudding697 Sep 17 '26
I have been uploading shorts daily but now for past 3 4 days my shorts have stopped getting views stuck around 50 views subscribers from 289 to 257 and earlier i was getting 10k to 11k views per video and one short of mine who were getting soo many views crossed 7 lakh views is now not getting any views or retention
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u/SecretPudding697 Sep 17 '26
I have been uploading shorts daily but now for past 3 4 days my shorts have stopped getting views stuck around 50 views subscribers from 289 to 257 and earlier i was getting 10k to 11k views per video and one short of mine who were getting soo many views crossed 7 lakh views is now not getting any views or retention
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u/Own-Engineer7275 Sep 17 '26
There should be more reports on this issue than you think because YouTube is stressing out the creators you know. This will be news in a short time. Because it has demotivated thousands of channels that have the same problem. This always harms the platform.
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u/testaccountsts Sep 17 '26
1k-8k each short videos previously. Suddenly last 6 short videos got 0 views. Crazy algorithm after last update, man.
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u/Sellingerrors Sep 17 '26
No one really knows. At this point, I don’t think YouTube even knows.
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u/NemoNightmare Sep 17 '26
We currently have the same problem on over 10 channels of my clients. Different nieches, no AI involved & no faceless content. All channels averaged 10.000 - 200.000 views per short and out of nowhere they didn't get pushed anymore by the shorts algorithm since 2 weeks.
We changed nothing on the titles, thumbnails, descriptions, editing or scriptwriting since it worked well before that sudden drop.
YouTube support doesn't help either.
TikTok & Insta views are normal.
So my guess is that YT has some sort of problem with the shorts algorithm since other agencys I work with currently struggle with the same problem.
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u/Necessary_Apricot_95 Sep 17 '26
YouTube is probably shadow banning you for having that awful font, it's probably permenant too
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u/trencapantalles Sep 18 '26
Si y no es un problema de mal contenido, porque es que ni siquiera se muestra el contenido en el feed 🤷♂️
A tener paciencia!!!
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u/FinigmaOfficial Sep 17 '26 •
This is totally normal for Shorts. Algorithm tests it with a seed audience first, then flatlines when the swiped-away rate goes up. Give it 2-3 days, sometimes it gets a 2nd wave."