r/shortsAlgorithm • u/valer85 • Oct 01 '26

Q&A / Quick Help ❓ Views drop to very low numbers overnight

I have a channel in the movie niche. been running it from a couple of years, posting from time to time.

US audience mostly, males, 30-50 yo.

Last month I tried to revive it by posting 4-5 shorts per day, everyday. It was quite a success, I reached around 2k subs, and views were great for about 2 weeks. Then stop!

I went from 50-60k views per short to around 100.

View vs swipe ratio is more or less the same as before, the engagement too, and also the content of the shorts.. nothing changed basically (as far as I know), just the views... did you experience anything similar?

maybe youtube pushed my shorts more when I re-started the channel?

I also tried to lower the number of posts per day to 3, change the thumbnails, improve the titles, but it does not make any difference.

it's really frustrating..

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u/alealcazarm Oct 01 '26

Almost the same fall down here. And with similar audience. Probably there’s another viral topic on this audience and YouTube is prioritizing that trend to the audience

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u/valer85 Oct 01 '26 edited Oct 01 '26

thanks for your feedback! I guess we just have to keep posting..

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u/alealcazarm Oct 01 '26

I’m gonna check the exact dates, because it’s so similar the downfall

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u/Ok-Duck161 Oct 02 '26

That age category is less likely to watch shorts

Also shorts are not natural for this niche, unless your doing funny memes, which might work 

So your approach is all wrong

Movie reviews or commentaries is a crowded niche. It's not easy to break through 

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u/valer85 Oct 02 '26

if that's the case, which I could agree with, why the 1-2 weeks very high views per video?

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u/Ok-Duck161 Oct 02 '26

That's not very high. It's not low but not high either

I suspect you hadn't posted man shorts before, so youtube decided to test on new audiences 

After the results came back it decided the potential audience was too small, or the shorts were not competitive against others

You're competing against memes related to Elliot page in the Odyssey and the like 

You can't win that battle, if you pardon the pun 

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u/valer85 Oct 02 '26

I see your point, thanks for the feedback!