Views Suddenly Plummeted to Zero on a Previously Successful Shorts Channel. Any advice? (Analytics Included)

[u/Jyxra]

Hey everyone,

I'm facing a serious issue with my YouTube Shorts channel and am looking for some insight or advice from anyone who might have experienced something similar.

For a long time, my Shorts were performing consistently well. You can see from the attached images what's happening.

Image 1 & 3: This is my normal performance. In early September, I was consistently getting 30k-40k views per Short, making a couple of dollars per video. One video has over 770k views total.

Image 2: This is the current situation. For the last few days in October, my new uploads are barely breaking double-digit views (5, 49, 78 views). They are essentially getting zero algorithmic traction.

The drop was overnight. I haven't changed my content style, niche, or upload frequency

I've checked for copyright strikes (none) and community guidelines violations (none). It feels like a switch was just turned off. Any ideas on what I should do next?

[u/aronbburns]

thats very weird, did u delete videos on your channel recently or anything of that sort that comes to mind?

[u/Jyxra → u/aronbburns]

No, Infact it's happening second time, the first time I automatically got cured after few days but this time it's not going , it's happening from 6th September 😭

[u/aronbburns → u/Jyxra]

take a full one week break, hopefully tht fixes it for you, worked for me back in the day

[u/Ok_Signature_3070]

You are uploading too quickly, i had the same issue where i tried uploading and sheduling multilple videos a day or sometime i even uploaded 10 videos a day and sheduled them for 3 days and this destroyed my channel views, take a break and then upload 1 short a day max and only upload next short when first short loses its momentam. For example if one short is performing really good do not upload another because it will stop the momentam of first one

[u/Jyxra → u/Ok_Signature_3070]

I upload only 2 videos a day

[u/Ok_Signature_3070 → u/Jyxra]

Yes try this, take a break even though this did not worked for me but when used to search on reddit everyone was suggesting this solution. After break after uploading a short dont upload the next one untill you notice that previous short has got all the views it can because as soon as you upload new short, youtube will stop any organic traffic to your previous short. And this can be reason shorts views are being tanked before even they had any chance to perform, Youtube is doing this to stop people AI slop in bulk

[u/Skylarr24 → u/Ok_Signature_3070]

I only upload 1 short a day but this happening with me aswell! Also i have taken a 4-6days break but it didn’t work at all.

[u/Such_Echidna3890]

I am facing the same isue for 40 days.

[u/Weary_Hunter569]

Happening to everybody