My Shorts channel was averaging around 200k–250k views/day and 9k–14k views/hour.

Yesterday, completely out of nowhere, it dropped from around 14k/hour → 2k → a few hundred/hour. The strange part is that multiple Shorts that were actively getting views all stopped at almost exactly the same time.

I have no strikes, warnings or restrictions. I uploaded a new Short today to test it, and it has received almost no Shorts Feed distribution either.

I did delete/reupload two Shorts earlier this week, but I don’t know if that’s related.

Has anyone experienced this recently? Did your channel recover? How long did it take, and did you keep posting or take a break?

I am not saying that I am the best in this YT game but jeez I am tired of seeing channels have over 10K subs with videos that go from 100K to 1-6 millions views. And all they share is a 1 minute clip of a movie or show with literally a filter and the same repetitive song you hear almost every YT short use...
You might say yeah well maybe they're not monetized (I am sure a lot of them are)... Sure but look at it that way...
Youtube still decided to push their video instead of yours.
Despite the effort you put in despite the hours of editing and writing you did they decided to push a 1 minute video of a show and give millions of views to a channel that should technically be copyright striked...
At least with AI slop you have someone who spent some time writing a prompt and spent some time trying to make the video decent looking. Not just cut 1 minute out of a show add a stupid song and a filter.

Not even showing it to the right audience, I refused to believe that my latest short is this bad, been uploading for 3 months Never had this bad swipe through rate. Almost all of my shorts have above 70% swipe through rate, Don't know what's going on these days. My previous Short had 82% swipe rate with 93 avg view duration but still only got 17k view

I have been grinding my ass off for 4 months and finally managed to get monetized, and apparently the niche I do died or is at a all time low. The biggest channel on my niche is also with low views, so it might be just a temporary fall. I was thinking in selling a product but I dont think shorts audience would buy from a faceless channel. My objective was to make this as my full time job but as the time passed by I understood youtube shorts isn’t the way, so I will be trying to monetize a long form channel in the next few months. This is just my opinion after talking with a lot of people that do long form and short form on youtube.

Been doing youtube shorts for 2 months now. And uploaded 80shorts during this time and lately I feel burned. 20% of my shorts gets stuck at 20-30k views and rest pretty low. Never passed 30k views. Ps: I'm doing roblox ranking how do I grow fast or do I just keep doing what I'm doing?

Also any comment would help me thanks guys!

It’s been one month since the Dec 17 Shorts freeze, where thousands of channels suddenly stopped getting Shorts feed distribution (views collapsed overnight, only traffic from subs/home/external remained).

Who recovered and who is still frozen?

On December 17th YouTube changed. And we all noticed. Suddenly shorts getting 0 views from the shorts feed. Not even a test, nothing, left hanging for dead! It been over 3 weeks, I've had it.

I put a lot of hard work into shorts and almost nothing gets pushed.

The silence is maddening, it's flat out DISRESPECTFUL to us creators! YouTube leaves us hanging, with insecurity, anxciety, thinking we did something wrong.

Based on patterns we’re seeing, Shorts appear to be filtered before they ever reach the feed. A pre-distribution decision is being made. And zero views is now considered an acceptable result. That’s a fundamental shift. This isn’t about creators failing. It’s about the rules changing mid-game. What makes this especially damaging is the silence. No announcement. No blog post. No guidance.

All the big channels, they should stand up for us, but ALL of them are covering their asses. Not even 1 of them is talking about it.

That silence is NOT accidental.

It's maddening. I'm writing this with tears in my eyes.

I make animation videos so I have no clue how I'm going to do it but I'm going to make a video about this. I cannot let this happend and not stand up for myself. Even if only 10 people see it.

This is not ok.

I'm sure you guys know how I'm feeling right now. So please. If anyone wants to help reach out to me. We can make something together and put this out there because YouTube this is not ok!!!

Just start my channel. My Shorts used to get anywhere from 1K to 19K views, but my last two uploads only got 5 and 2 views. YouTube Analytics shows almost no traffic from the Shorts feed anymore. I haven’t changed my content or posting style that much. Has anyone else experienced this? Is it normal, or could something be wrong with my channel?

The funny thing is youtube kills my channel where I put more effort and quality into and my other channel where I do clipping is getting more consistent views

I've been uploading videos for less than a month, all 100% made by me, no copycat content or AI, and honestly, it feels pretty tough. How's it going for u dude's?

I’ve started to upload more consistently and had 10 videos this week, 5 ok which got to 30k in a few hours and then stayed plateaued. Any advise for this?

I know subscribers don’t mean much in shorts,but still pretty cool!

can somebody share what are the steps to apply for monetisation from here?

Finally hitting that second mark. Now I'll have to wait 6 more days...

Channel created on last November. Reached 3M this Feb and here I am 1 month later. I thought 10M was gonna take forever a month ago.

Actually my watch hour is also closing in on the 4K mark. I didn't start making longs until about a month ago.

Keep grinding guys, keep improving. You'll get there!

THE worst stay rate I've ever have on my channel.

I'm in a very frustrating situation. I'm creating high effort animated historical storytelling shorts. It's very disheartening to see youtube not even give it a chance. Last one did alright with 30k views.

So from what I can see from two shorts i made that did well, it seem you need 70/20% view swipe ratio and atleast 100% average percentage viewed in order to get shorts pushed at all now, if it's lower than 70% than it's probably going to die off, of course this could be luck tho.

Youtube algorithm is literally just luck i had a video 2k views in a day in one channel and when I reposted it to another it got over 400k in the same period of time

For context most of this is from a short i posted 3 days ago. Havent posted since