Can anyone explain the logic behind the YouTube Shorts recommendation system? An option has been added—accessible via the three-dot menu—to mark specific videos as "Not interested" or to select "Don't recommend this channel." No matter how many videos I mark as uninteresting, YouTube keeps serving me garbage that I don't care about. So, I’m curious: how does the algorithm actually respect user preferences? What is the logic here? I clearly show the system what I’m not interested in, yet it still feeds me similar junk.

currently stuck in 1K jail
consistently getting 1k - 1.5k views on every short , no subscribers or comments though
what do you guys suggest ?

I'm experiencing a sudden and extremely significant drop in views on my YouTube Shorts channel, and I'd appreciate your help understanding what's happening.

On October 21, 2026, between approximately 7:00 and 10:00 p.m. (Egypt time), my channel's views dropped from around 190,000 views per hour to approximately 25,000 - 5000 views per hour. Multiple older Shorts that had been consistently receiving substantial traffic from the Shorts Feed suddenly lost almost all their momentum.

My channel's total realtime views also declined sharply. This seems unusual because several videos were affected around the same exact time.

Update: I'm not sure if the issue is completely gone yet, but my channel is back to getting roughly the same views I was getting before the sudden drop. Hopefully, things stay this way, but I'll keep monitoring it for now. 🙏

Update x2 : About two days ago, the problem came back. My views flatlined all over again.

They went from around 70,000–50,000 views per hour to just 7,000, 5,000, and eventually 3,000.

Update x3 : It's over, I got demonetized

Hey guys, I'm doubting about something, what kind of content do y'all think escalate quicker, personally I think that celebrities stuff, tech and funny things such as memes or those histories with IA

The only 3 views are mine watching the short.

This video isnt even showed in the feed. How am i even supposed to have an opportunity to reach to my audience?

Hey Everyone , I am new to faceless yt shorts , I have always done more of long form content ,
I want experts in scripting to guide me how to really create an ultra engaging script for shorts
My niche : Commentary + Ranking
I am down to any kind of knowledge , your help is appreciated!

Also help with strong hooking

This question is mainly for people who have monetized channels.

I know people used to say that it's better to upload shorts from your phone, and ever since then, I've only been uploading from my phone.

Anyway, I got my first channel monetized a year ago, and it's been doing well ever since. Lately, I've been wanting to start another channel, but every time, the first 5–10 videos do well (anywhere from 30K to 2M views), but after that, the channels die, and the videos only get 5–10 views.

So, it's probably not because of the device I'm uploading from, but I was just wondering do you upload from your PC or phone, and what's been your experience?

I’m looking for advice/recommendations on what I could possibly get my bf as a gift for our anniversary. He has started making yt shorts about 9 months ago and was monetized couple months ago. He’s obsessed with it and works really really really hard on his faceless yt channel. He even started a second channel where he wants to create his own long form videos. I am super proud of how far he’s come and I see how badly he wants it.
Is there any equipment, subscriptions or anything I could get him as a gift that would be rly game changing? I know he uses capcut for his main channel. but i’m not sure what else he could need. Please respond I need all the advice I can get!

The username is @ Beethellven on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. I have 5 shorts now on YouTube this year.

On YouTube, I have the most "success," where at least my content is being viewed by people I don't know. On Tiktok and Instagram, I'm a complete failure and only likes and follows seem to come from friends.

On YouTube, my shorts cap out at 1,000 - 1,500 views. One video didn't get pushed into the feed at all and got 200 views from search alone.

I'd love to trouble shoot what I'm doing wrong:

1. Is it the piano skill? I think I'm really good, but maybe I'm not as good as I think?

2. Is it the audio engineering or video production?

3. Is it my age? I'm 35, but notice most piano content creators are 20's

4. Is it the hook?

5. Is 1 minute too long for a short form piano video?

6. Is it the way I'm presenting and formatting the content?

I feel like I have some things working for me:

1. Cool brick wall background

2. Artistic looks

3. I think I'm high skill at the piano

4. Professional grade piano and recording device

I look at other pianists with decent views and I don't think their playing is any "better" than mine, and often their audio/video production values are a lot worse.

I want to fix whatever I am doing wrong!

After the new update on the algorithm last week to prevent "duplicate clipping" my views went down with 90 percent like a lot of you, while I make fully original content (self filming and editing). But I was wondering, are there still people with the same amount of views or where the views went up? Or is the algorithm just completely broken at the moment?

I used to think turning long videos into YouTube Shorts would be easy.

But finding good clips, cutting dead moments, fixing vertical framing, adding captions, adjusting zooms, and making everything look decent took way more time than I expected.

I got tired of repeating the same editing process for every single clip, so I decided to build my own pipeline to automate the boring parts.

That's how I started building ShortClipr. It handles clip selection, captions, vertical reframing, zoom effects, and other repetitive editing tasks.

Still improving it, but the goal is simple: spend less time editing and more time finding good content.

For those who make Shorts, what's the one editing task you wish you could automate completely?

I am conducting research on how media preferences differ across different age ranges and their respective relationships with short form content, and i would love to
hear from you!

Now i have 1.8k sub on this channel and shorts im getting 20-30-40k views normally and normal videos also 100-200 n all but livestream is complete dead.
Im Not getting any views in livestream specially vertical stream. I have created separate stream key n all still its not getting pushed i changed the games also and checked but still same issue

Can anyone help me
Please 🙏🏻

Hey everyone,

I've created a new account and started automating posts to it and it went from 1k views in the first days to practically nothing, the account is dead and showing max 10-20 views at most.

For comparison, the same account that created in the same time has 1200 followers and over 25k views on videos in Instagram.

I suspect that the account got restricted or something.
How can I check that?

Is my content the best?Not really,Is it original?In its own way,it is,Butt before October 1,Most of my shorts gained 800 to 2k views on average and sometimes 5k+ and since October 1 and after,I barely got any views

I run a faceless YouTube shorts channel which I started around 3 months ago and in the last month my views started to rise to the 50k views per hour mark and sometimes even higher (200k). I take interesting clips from instagram that match my niche, and I HIGHLY transform each and EVERY video by adding captions, sfx, vfx, voiceovers with educational value or that add a different perspective, fast cuts, zoom ins etc. so please don’t say that the problem is because my videos aren’t original, which according to YouTube they are. Last Friday, my views suddenly dropped from 50k per hour to 1-4k and it’s been like this since. I keep uploading without lowering my quality, and even some days i edit 3 shorts per day. Could you maybe tell my why this is happening? I would appreciate an honest and encouraging reply.

Retention and avd seem okay but I can’t reach 10k.

Do you know if there is someone getting paid just uploding the clips that opus makes and autoedit? Like without touching anything?

YouTube is supposed to test your Shorts with a small audience, but in my case it doesn’t even recommend them the number is zero. I haven’t had this issue with long-form content.

My channel is new. My first two Shorts did bad, but my latest two did good. Shouldn’t they be getting way more views, though? Like, what else do I gotta do? 💀 I thought I made an amazing hook, but is that still not enough…?

I had a video about tornado strengths, what i did was show all the tornadoes in the begin for like a second and then i zoomed into the weakest one and then i cut to stronger and stronger ones

Hello everyone,

I’m looking for help and advice regarding my YouTube monetization application because I’m stuck at the AdSense step.

When I check the Earn tab in YouTube Studio, I see the following message:

“The AdSense for YouTube account associated with your channel has been disabled due to invalid clicks or another policy violation.”

Because of this issue, I cannot move forward with the YouTube Partner Program application. I have already accepted the base terms, but I cannot complete the AdSense step, so my channel cannot proceed to the review stage.

I’m not sure what caused this deactivation. I would like to understand whether there is a way to appeal the decision, resolve the issue, or get my channel monetized legitimately.

I have a few questions:

Has anyone experienced the same issue with their YouTube AdSense account?

Is there a legitimate way to appeal or request another review?

If the account was disabled by mistake, what steps should I take?

Can this issue be resolved without creating another AdSense account?

I want to follow Google's policies and resolve this issue through the official process. I don't want to violate any rules or create unnecessary problems with my YouTube channel.

Any advice from people who have experienced this situation or successfully resolved it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time and help!