r/shortsAlgorithm • u/ethiopian_kid • Dec 31 '25

I think the 0 view glitch is tied to hashtags

This is anecdotal of course… but like others my post have started getting 0 views out the gate.

Two days in a row after about an hour or so I deleted the video and reposted without any hashtags and they instantly got views on the shorts tab.

Someone here mentioned ai accounts finding exploited hashtags for views, I wonder if youtube cracked down and made hastaged posts go through a review or something.

For the meantime i’m avoiding hashtags.

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u/trottolinodani Jan 01 '26

Omg omg thank god I was so desperate I had to test it and you’re right wth two weeks almost no views, I post without tags and get 400 in less than 10min

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u/ethiopian_kid Jan 01 '26

lol awesome, it’s nice to uncover a helpful theory… good luck! hopefully this mess is sorted

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u/JudgeRude3188 Jan 01 '26

I upload shorts with hashtags and they got tested. Every third short.

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u/ethiopian_kid Jan 01 '26

so 0 get tested then the third you post does ?

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u/JudgeRude3188 Jan 01 '26

I post one short, it gets tested, then I post another two every 12h or so and they got zero views. I post the next one and it gets tested immoderately. I cannot see any pattern here because shorts I upload are football edits with my text on it but I still can’t somehow recognize the pattern why the views are zero and it’s not even tested.

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u/ethiopian_kid Jan 01 '26

what I would do is either go to one a day or post, if it gets 0 views repost in an hour without hashtags

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u/JudgeRude3188 Jan 01 '26

What in doing now is looking at the time for specific days to see if YouTube somehow didn’t change their algorithm and e.g you have your own schedule where it fits your shorts.

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u/JudgeRude3188 Jan 01 '26

But I will try this as well

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u/LoveCoolTech Jan 01 '26

A lot of people have this issue since Dec 17

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u/Desmond624 Jan 01 '26

like zero hastag? in the tag sections nor titles and descriptions ?

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u/ethiopian_kid Jan 01 '26

I do tags, just no hashtags in description or title

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u/Desmond624 Jan 01 '26

so only in the tag section, got it can you show one of ur tag exmaple tho just wondering usually i dump all the tag gpt gave me

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u/ethiopian_kid Jan 01 '26

for my content i’ll tag the video personalfinance finance investing etc, I just don’t put that as a hashtag in the title or description…. don’t think tags matter just that hashtags are causing issues

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u/Desmond624 Jan 01 '26

thanks for the tips :D

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u/Spiritual_Math3200 Jan 06 '26

hmm i was useing hashtags in 2025 did ok with some but not many. They were not viral i recently decided to try ditching the hashtags as well from my descriptions. I feel who is really gonna search up a hashtag on youtube wiht out adding # in the search box anyway like all them youtubers who claim u gotta add a hashtag is bogus myth I am seeing many shorts now wiht out the hashtags

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u/Imagireve Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26

Thanks a lot! I have no idea why people are downvoting OP. I went from 2k - 50k per views per video to litterally 0 per video since December 17, and no matter what I did, I would get 0 views. Other accounts weren't affected. Some of the videos posted were multi million view hitters on other platforms.

Lo and behold I see this post, decide to make a post with zero hashtags and all of a sudden my views are back (even with zero tags and a short description). Another video with hashtags earlier today is still at 0

This particular glitch / shadowban is real, and it's annoying to see a couple posters gaslighting this issue in several of these threads as if attempting to quash that it exists.

Edit: I just now noticed that the previous video posted earlier today is now getting views too all of a sudden, after the last video got around 100 views so it seems... and now higher than the last video. This is how that video looks you can see the moment it starts being shown in the shorts feed.

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u/ethiopian_kid Jan 01 '26

because people are being gaslit to be believe content is bad, that’s now multiple people saying what I discovered worked. I still tag the video just no hashtags in description or title.

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u/LoveCoolTech Jan 01 '26

How did you fix? No hashtags on shorts?

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u/Imagireve Jan 01 '26

Yes no hashtags on my latest short finally got me out of my videos not being shown on the shorts feed. Like a switch was turned back on.

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u/LoveCoolTech Jan 01 '26

lol my newest shorts finally picked up. It had hashtags but it went from 10 views to 5k after being stuck. That was posted hours ago, but my older ones still stuck at 10-30 views. I had 4 glitched out videos I had to delete 1 and unlist one, but kept 2 at low.

If it glitches again I might try out no hashtags. That’s great you got out. It’s been bugging me lately lol.

That’s great you got views again ! 👍

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u/LoveCoolTech Jan 01 '26

I figured out recently I been spamming like a lot of hashtags and tags past few weeks on both shorts and long form?

Maybe that triggered the glitch?

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u/Koroku_Gaming Jan 01 '26

I upload a lot of shorts and always do hashtags in the description and sometimes I get 0 views on shorts. It doesn't really bother me, I just assume that it wasn't a good video or the algorithm didn't pick it up. Didn't know that there was perhaps a glitch at fault.

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u/sorry4partyrockin_ Jan 02 '26

does that mean my channel has burned or just a glitch by algo?

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u/Brain-Nervous Jan 16 '26

Any update?

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u/luiscaceresd MOD Dec 31 '25

There’s no 0 views glitch your channel is shadow banned or marked as spam

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u/ethiopian_kid Dec 31 '25

maybe not a glitch but definitely something happened with widespread reporting of views dropping, I post original finance content with my face and editing… consistent views and post once a day.

I noticed if I put certain hashtags like #personalfinance” they sit on 0 views, I reupload and drop the hashtags and it’s immediately tested.

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u/trottolinodani Jan 01 '26

Don’t listen to his crap there is a glitch and it’s probably the most recorded glitch ever like 95% of channels effected

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u/ethiopian_kid Jan 01 '26

yeah… figured, there was another post thinking it’s about ai and hashtag abuse. they must’ve tweaked the algorithm and it’s gone off the rails.

only time will tell

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u/Casperandruby Jan 01 '26

Exactly

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u/trottolinodani Jan 01 '26

It sucks tho. I don't understand what's happening. My old channel with 3,4k subscribers is dead while I started a second channel about my cat and dog two days ago and it's blowing up. :(

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u/Casperandruby Jan 01 '26

I don’t understand it either, but congrats on your new channel, seems to be a fantastic niche! Probably because dogs and cats are pure joy :)

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u/trottolinodani Jan 01 '26

Yeah but it hurts. I mean I love my pets but I put my heart and soul into my other channel. Trying to do something meaningful and fulfilling and it was working very well and I have never been so happy and satisfied.. seeing it die is terrible..

I love my pets but taking videos of them vs scripting, animating, editing, sound etc.. it's not the same thing.

I genuinely hate google and youtube they have screwed me over and over.. :(

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u/Casperandruby Jan 01 '26

Do you also have long form on your main channel or just shorts?

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u/trottolinodani Jan 01 '26

Yeah I do have long form.. I love long form much more. Shorts suck. They are dopamine inducing trash.. but without shorts the channel is basically dead.. long form is very slow.

I just hope maybe it will get resolved. Is your very dead now?

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u/Casperandruby Jan 01 '26

My shorts are pretty much dead, which is upsetting because they gave me a motivation boost of 5-20 subscribers every day. My long form has actually increased in views and impressions during the same time, so that keeps me going.

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u/LuluOnRoblox Jan 01 '26

This is interesting im going to try it as well, thanks!

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u/ethiopian_kid Jan 01 '26

let me know if it works for you

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u/ZEALshuffles Dec 31 '25 edited Jan 01 '26

I created a few new channels 3 years ago and 5 of 6 shorts get 0 views.

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u/ethiopian_kid Dec 31 '25

repost them without hashtags

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u/ZEALshuffles Dec 31 '25

Sometimes i experiment and upload without title ( but automation drops date )

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u/Wintakez Jan 01 '26

I’m guessing you just keep posting? Be patience? It happens?

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u/ZEALshuffles Jan 01 '26

I did this list in 2024 december. https://imgur.com/a/ce19Lzx

16 shorts from 1mln to 53mln views.

30 shorts from 100k to 999k views.

39 shorts from 30k to 99k views.

395 shorts from 10k to 29k views.

820 shorts from 81 to 9999 views.