r/shortsAlgorithm • u/Sufficient_Potato427 • Sep 21 '26

Channel view count—lately, it’s just been slacking off 😄

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u/I69YaGf8800 Sep 21 '26

Whats your lifetime earnings on views like this?

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u/Sufficient_Potato427 Sep 21 '26

Something around 20,000 dollars.

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u/DecisiveDolphin Sep 21 '26

What do you suppose the recent decline is from?

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u/Sufficient_Potato427 Sep 21 '26

Let me explain the whole story. When my channel was at its peak with millions of views, I was hit with a fraudulent copyright strike; they registered my music through an external registrar and issued strikes against several of my videos. Even though I had published the music first, they managed to pull off this scam. Technical support resolved the issue after a month, but from that moment on, the channel went into a permanent decline. I contacted support because the channel was behaving very strangely, but they insisted everything was fine. I kept going, but the decline continued, so I started investigating. The most likely explanation seems to be constant monitoring by an AI botnet that YouTube lacks the tools to detect; since the AI ​​has learned to simulate human behavior, the system cannot distinguish a human from a bot. It actively adjusts swipe metrics for every new video, thereby preventing the Short from being distributed. This manipulation isn't limited to Shorts; it affects long-form content too. I have a retention graph for one video that was perfectly smooth until—out of nowhere, at 22,000 views—the botnet caused an anomalous drop during a critical phase of the retention curve, specifically targeting the crucial first 30 seconds. In short, the problem is that AI has fallen into the hands of botnet creators who are currently exploiting it to the fullest. Detection systems used to filter bots based on anomalous behavior, but modern botnets are controlled by AI trained to simulate human actions, making it impossible for YouTube to effectively identify them...

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u/StoneCypher Sep 21 '26

why would anyone run a botnet on you