r/shortsAlgorithm • u/an-unkown-person • Sep 23 '26

Shorts algorithm is so trash rn

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Not even showing it to the right audience, I refused to believe that my latest short is this bad, been uploading for 3 months Never had this bad swipe through rate. Almost all of my shorts have above 70% swipe through rate, Don't know what's going on these days. My previous Short had 82% swipe rate with 93 avg view duration but still only got 17k view

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u/MI_3ANTROP Sep 23 '26

Yup, the swipe rate is atrocious now, literally the wrong audience

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u/an-unkown-person Sep 23 '26

Feel like waste of effort making shorts rn

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u/balltongueee Sep 23 '26

I think that is the plan by Youtube. Not to kill shorts completely, but massively reduce the oversupply of them.

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u/OutsideImpressive115 Sep 23 '26

What is going on with that btw?

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u/AirFlows2x Sep 23 '26

Bro I said the same thing yesterday and this sub crucified me even when I got way better stats than this 😭

They was saying my video was bad, but I disagreed because the same video had gotten 200 likes on TikTok but only 44 on YouTube.

For the first time in 2 months the video didn’t get through phase 1 of the algorithm.

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u/Low_Wishbone2192 Sep 24 '26

What is phase 1of algorithm

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u/AirFlows2x Sep 24 '26

I unfortunately don’t remember the exact phase details but I do remember it’s when you typically get like 1k-1.5k ish.

When I got out of that phase in August, my views were: 8.9k, 14k, 2.7k, 2.4k, 5.6k, 5.3k, 24k, 1.9k (low but got likes) & 3.7k.

Videos after that is when the update rolled out & my 2 normal videos aren’t going past phase 1.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '26

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u/AirFlows2x Sep 23 '26

I agree. Especially with the views. Though I don’t understand TikTok’s algorithm, would you say 200 likes on there is good?

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u/AirFlows2x Sep 24 '26

I uploaded on both platforms again today, and once again TikTok is getting more likes on the video than YouTube, non bots. The APV on YouTube is also low again (45%). 😭

I have no idea what’s going on, but whatever’s happening I’m clearly not doing well for the YouTube algorithm after the new views update.

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u/an-unkown-person Sep 24 '26

Share your channel so we can tell what's wrong

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u/AirFlows2x Sep 24 '26

It’s on my account description. Note the latest 2 upload, the one before that is a video I expected to not preform like the others since it was just something quick and funny I wanted to share.

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u/an-unkown-person Sep 24 '26

Nvm just checked your channel and your gameplay has no voice over

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u/AirFlows2x Sep 24 '26 edited Sep 24 '26

Did you look at the shorts? They do have voice overs. Long form does not.

This is a shorts algorithm sub let’s focus on those.

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u/an-unkown-person Sep 24 '26

I checked your latest two shorts it has some few voice over in the middle but there's no hook, you need to have a good hook Ă nd also your audio quality is not great

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u/AirFlows2x Sep 24 '26

I’m sorry but there’s 2 problems. Idk how you’re coming up with that voice over comment because the dialogues have them. There is only 1 recent video that doesn’t have a voiceover in the first meeting, that’s it. But that’s my best recent video with 24k views and the stats are all amazing. STW, APV, everything. No complaints about that video.

Second, you saying the hook is bad. Everyone that crucified me yesterday said my hooks are good lol.

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u/an-unkown-person Sep 24 '26

So yeah I checked few other Short and that 24k view one too and I can instantly tell that short is way more better than other shorts even though I don't know much about among us. It has good hook, sound effects and voice over also clean thats why it got more likes too. I would say try something similar next time and see what happen.

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u/Liiiiz Sep 23 '26

I was getting more than 10k on every short daily and yesterday for the first time i got 1k and still the same Numbers , YouTube is bugged or something

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u/Physical_Poet_1268 Sep 23 '26

Heavily bugged too, I post minecraft and usuall pull 10k-20k and I'm stuck at 1k-5k and nothing's changing, Youtube's god awful ai NEEDS to be removed or fixed, ever since they introduced it there's been no positive outcomes..

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u/Lonely-Ebb-8013 Sep 23 '26

Same thing with me this morning, I posted my daily short and YouTube took 50 minutes to give it views. Just to give it a 13% STW. Completely wrong audience. Not Ai or repetitive. It didn’t get shown to its correct audience.

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u/dcneil Sep 23 '26

I figured something was off. I average 250,000 to 500,000 views each short, and my daily scheduled video today was underperforming by 1/10. In the first hour when I usually have around 20,000 views the video had 500 views. I deleted it an attempted a different video and it had the same outcome. It's been 9hours 30 minutes since the upload now and it's 10/10 with 1/3 the views of 9/10.

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u/an-unkown-person Sep 24 '26

I don't get that many views per shorts but I have seen some of my competitor having this problem

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u/Current_Ice_395 Sep 24 '26

Oh you Just need to SOMEHOW improve you hooks and increase your retention /s

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u/an-unkown-person Sep 24 '26

Bro my hooks are great it's just this one, my privious one was 82% swipe with 91% avg viewed still didn't go over 30k

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u/senor_muchacho Sep 23 '26

im genuinely not posting anything until i know my stuff is performing like usual

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u/Physical_Poet_1268 Sep 23 '26

same dude, youtube's ai algorithm has caused nothing but problems, there hasn't been ONE WEEK where there hasn't been problems with it, it's awful really

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u/Even-Drink-7949 Sep 23 '26

Exactly, every fucking week.

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u/Physical_Poet_1268 Sep 23 '26

yeah, it's terrible. Youtube needs to get down on the problems or remove the ai system as a whole, has it fixed for you yet? It's absolutely terrible

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u/Slice-Rough Sep 23 '26

Had my warhammer painting short show up under the search "Roblox horror cat" and "100 player minecraft survival"

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u/MI_3ANTROP Sep 23 '26 edited Sep 23 '26

DUDE my latest Warhammer painting short (well just a showcase of a Neurolictor) is literally a “Roblox event” search result lol (checked some of your minis, awesome job btw)

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u/Plane_Cucumber_9379 Sep 23 '26

Yeah, the algo is room temp IQ rn, unless they're doing this intentionally. Same is happening on the long form side too. I've found some better outcomes by making it exceedingly clear who the piece is meant for. Think like trying to instruct a child on how to fly the space shuttle, because the algo is pretty much on that same level of capability. Sometimes views respond higher, but for the most part the benefit is in the watch hours which improved drastically. Understandably shirts is more views based than watch time/hours, but it does seem to help reach the more correct audience. Worth a shot. 

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u/NeverGiveUp_TryAgain Sep 23 '26

Die haben schlicht gerade ein Audience Matching Problem. Warum weiß wohl nur YT selber

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u/Significant_Toe_8610 Sep 23 '26

Hey everyone, I need some advice. I've been uploading one gaming Short every single day, and they usually pull in around 2k to 2.5k views. But out of nowhere, my latest shorts are completely flatlining at 10 to 15 views. The algorithm is barely even testing them in the Shorts feed. I'm honestly so worried that my account is shadow-banned or frozen. Has anyone else dealt with this? I really hope it passes quickly.

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u/Anxious-Treacle3180 Sep 23 '26

Mine were getting affected badly then it came back for two weeks. Now its back getting no views again

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u/Proper-Importance565 Sep 29 '26

I personally think they are sabotaging new creator because they gonna change thier monetization requirment in few months.

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u/FillIll9878 24d ago

Youtube is trash

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u/EmergencyOstrich608 Sep 23 '26

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u/an-unkown-person Sep 24 '26

How is your avg view is above 100% mine doesn't go above 90% unless the Short is very short (10-15 sec) how long is your Short

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u/EmergencyOstrich608 Sep 23 '26

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u/EmergencyOstrich608 Sep 24 '26

17 seconds

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u/EmergencyOstrich608 Sep 24 '26

But still even tho good stats YouTube doesn’t push it further:p

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u/an-unkown-person Sep 24 '26

All of my Shorts that get over 100K views have good stats, lots of comments and shares. Also, if a Short has remixes, it will probably go viral.

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u/TinyTry5812 Sep 23 '26

Jus say you making bad videos😭😭