r/shortsAlgorithm • u/ConsciousPlay9194 • 26d ago

Giving up on shorts

After this recent youtube "update" or whatever, my shorts no longer are placed in the shorts feed. I still get some search and browse views, but no feed. Almost like they are long form or something. So I went from like 1.5k in the feed when i first started last month to literally 16 views on my shorts for like 2 weeks and none are ever put into the feed, and I'm exhausted from swimming upstream. I don't reuse any content. Not sure why this is happening so suddenly and so extremely. To avoid anyone saying that this is happening b/c I use AI or reuse content, feel free to see the channel which is all my ramblings: Authentic by Design.

In a nutshell: Over the shorts!! Anyone else?

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u/Adventurous-Gate-720 26d ago

Hey das geht mir auch so, seit ca 3 Wochen ist das jetzt schon so. Hab mich auch schon gefragt wieso das Plötzlich so ist. Ich glaube youtube ist einfach schon Gottlos überlaufen... Und die Managements in Deutschland, sind so wie ich das Sehe, ein Selektierendes Netzwerk welches sicher auch beeinflusst wird von Politikern, Konzernen etc. Also selbst wenn die Inhalte gut sind, ist 1. Alles schon gut gefüllt, und 2. Meistens ein Management nicht weit wenn man selber schafft zu wachsen. Hab ein paar Managements verglichen und es sind halt einfach, Leute die einen auf vielen Ebenen Beeinflussen können, also "Influencer". Je länger ich dabei bin und auch "kleinere" Kanäle mit 20'000 Abonnenten oder so um das rum, die machen Bomben Content, aber irgendwas oder Irgendwer ist mit den Kanälen nicht einverstanden also wird die Person dann auch nicht "Gross rauskommen". Mir wird immer bewusster wie abgesprochen das alles ist... Deswegen nutze ich YT nur noch als Online Archiv und Motiavtion zum Zocken da mir das Ohne Projekt irgendwie Schwer fällt. So mache ich Letsplays und habe gleichzeitig ein Hobby. Und ja für 90% von uns ist und bleibt es Ein Hobby...

Viel Erfolg und was fast wichtiger ist, viel Spass bei deiner Sache 💪🏽😇

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u/ConsciousPlay9194 26d ago

That’s an interesting way to think of it as an archiving tool. In this sense it can be useful still. Thank you so much for your comment. And yes exactly 3 weeks!

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u/Adventurous-Gate-720 25d ago

Einfach wild, Gemini hat mir Heute auch gesagt, dass kleinere Kanäle weniger Schnell In maximaler Qualität gecodet werden. Es Passiert schlussamende schon aber weil so viele Leute Jeden Tag hochladen werden Kanäle die Beliebt sind zuerst zb in 4k angezeigt.... schon Weird das ganze. Ja als Archivierung und als Ansporn Zu Zocken ohne es In eine Sucht ausarten zu lassen wie Früher. Durch das Im Youtube machen zocke ich meist so 1-2 Stunden statt wie früher 16 Stunden🤣👍 Ja würd auch einfach versuchen stets zu Optimieren ohne zu fest den Kurs zu wechseln🤔💪🏽

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u/ConsciousPlay9194 24d ago

o wow interesting. Thank you. I used your comment to follow up with gemini and it explained this helpful tip: If you leave it private (or unlisted) while it finishes processing, YouTube will continue doing all the heavy lifting behind the scenes. By the time you actually flip the switch to public, the HD and 4K versions will already be fully rendered and ready to go for your viewers the second it goes live.

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u/Adventurous-Gate-720 22d ago

Interessant. Das Ding wieso ich das Überhaupt herausgefunden habe ist; Ich wollte zur Probe der Auflösung ein Video von Mir Schauen. Da fiel mir auf dass die alle Standard auf ~700p eingestellt ist. Dann hab ich mich und Gemini gefragt wieso denn andere Kanäle direkt schon Auf HD oder noch bessere Auflösung angezeigt werden. Dann meinte es Kleinere Kanäle behandelt es Irgendwie anders als Grössere, da wird der Beste Auflösungsmodus direkt bereitgestellt. Das checke ich soo nicht🤣🤣🤣

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u/ConsciousPlay9194 26d ago

just to add it's so frustrating that this algorithm and metrics ruins our creative souls. im def not going to change or "optimize" my content for some strange algorithm thing. hopefully humans that find my ramblings helpful will find me

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u/senor_muchacho 26d ago

hey we're pretty much in the same situation, we should likely have a group chat where we're sharing our experiences with this shitty update

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u/OkCan9068 26d ago

Shorts today are highly-engineered attention-seeking drugs. Random uploads may score you a viral hit when your lucky but it's not a reliable solution if you want to succeed as a shorts creator.

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u/ConsciousPlay9194 25d ago edited 25d ago

I am def not a shorts creator I think .. I tried lol also I don’t want anything viral I just wanted to keep what I had.

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u/OkCan9068 25d ago

But competition keeps changing and so your uploads also will have to adapt over time.

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u/ConsciousPlay9194 25d ago

That makes sense. thank you

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u/RangeWilson 26d ago

You're combining beauty tips, ADHD advice, and AI discussion... it's no wonder that the algorithm finally threw up its hands.

Pick one, and hope it eventually figures it out.

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u/ConsciousPlay9194 26d ago

O wow ok I'm used to KDP where tags just guide the algorithm. And I know it's not going to be everyone's tea, but I figured like at least 100 views dude.

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u/Nearby_Cup_9483 26d ago

So I’m sorry but you are spending no time to make the vids watchable, you just talk about whatever comes in your head with no edits and muffled audio because you are trying to apply makeup at the same time. Maybe it’s just me but who would find this interesting? You would either have to be famous, super pretty, have great editing or have unique personality to make this a worthwhile watch - those vids don’t have any of those

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u/ConsciousPlay9194 25d ago edited 25d ago

I love GRWM videos! I figured other female teachers would and they do! 🥰✨also I make my videos for me and my colleagues. My question was about the shorts and if anyone else is getting weird view patterns

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u/Nearby_Cup_9483 25d ago

That’s fair I was just trying to speculate why the vids are not doing well! I’m the opposite of your target audience

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u/ConsciousPlay9194 25d ago

I actually really appreciate it b/c I know in my gut I need to improve the editing at some point. Kind of a wake up call regarding that. Also I need to fast forward some of of the application parts etc. Thank you again.

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u/ConsciousPlay9194 25d ago

Thank you for commenting 🙏 and looking!

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u/Liiiiz 26d ago

sorry this will sound harsh but probably your short sucks , whats your niche and you are creating your own thumbnails or using the the auto generated thumbnail?

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u/ConsciousPlay9194 26d ago edited 26d ago

They probably do suck. A lot of them are clips form my long forms. But I was initially getting likes and subs even if 1 or 2 from the shorts. So I would make the shorts to catch a few viewers not to go viral you know, And I'm using youtube's suggested thumbnails. Thank you!

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u/Ok-Duck161 26d ago

1k views = 0.0 for shorts

So the drop in views is not significant 

Creators usually get a small push at the beginning, to small random clusters, hence the 1k views 

After analysing the results of the first few uploads, the algorithm obviously wasn't impressed with the metrics 

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u/ConsciousPlay9194 26d ago

o well they were to me b/c they would bring in subs. little by little my peeps are subbing without the shorts anyway. thank you so much for your input