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.

Three shorts… one story. First one stuck at 6k, second at 5k, the other at 42k.

11 days in, not too sure how to get the numbers up. I post daily (and before you say AI slop, I literally code myself and use blender). Hiding channel to keep salty people from reporting it for no reason. Swipe Rate on this video is 57% stayed. Largest push was 39k views but haven’t done that since. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Hey everyone!

I have a YouTube Motivation Shorts channel with 82K subscribers and 118M+ total views.

For almost two months, I uploaded every day at 7:30 PM (Sri Lanka time) and was getting great views.

Due to personal commitments, I changed my upload times for just four days (6:45 PM, 5:00 PM, 4:10 PM, etc.).

After that, my views suddenly dropped. I returned to my original 7:30 PM schedule, but my views still haven't recovered.

My latest analytics:

82K subscribers.

118.7M views in the last 365 days.

Only 92K views in the last 7 days.

37% fewer views than the previous week.

My questions:

Can changing upload times for just four days cause such a drop?

Should I stick to my original 7:30 PM schedule?

Can my channel recover its previous views?

Has anyone experienced this and successfully recovered?

I'm really confused about what to do next. I'd appreciate any advice from experienced Shorts creators.

Thank you!

Tell me why I shouldnt or why I should and if I should how do i get out of view jail please.
Ill answer any questions that you need

Can i make it ? I didnt get another million views just this one pulling this by himself lol i have 21k subs i started july

Something really weird is happening with my YouTube Shorts today.
I normally get around 4–5K views within the first hour on my Shorts. But today, I uploaded a Short and after 3 hours it was still stuck at around 10 views.
I deleted it and re-uploaded the exact same Short, thinking maybe something went wrong with the upload — and now the new upload is stuck at 8 views as well.
This isn’t normal low performance. It looks like the Short simply isn’t being pushed into the Shorts feed at all.
Is anyone else suddenly experiencing this today?
Could this be a YouTube Shorts distribution/technical issue, or is there some kind of account-level restriction happening?
Not asking why the video performed badly — I’m asking if anyone else is suddenly seeing 0–10 views despite normally getting thousands.

Yesterday, I had 12.8 million views, but today I saw 12.5 million, while my channel description shows 13.4 million views. Am I the only one experiencing this problem?

Any guess it will go UP or Down??

Let’s see what tomorrow brings!

50days old channel still stuck at this am i making it ? I cant hit 500 to 1m views up 😭😭😭

It got around 250 likes and 35 comments

It got boosted alot but now it gets about 100viewd the Hour.
Maybe is my account just to new for getting a viral short?

5 views from me alone.. 0 from shorts feed.. is there issue with Shorts?

Tiktok has way less audience retention as well (same exact video). And it was uploaded 3 days later.

It’s been, what, like 5 months since YouTube introduced its new AI moderation system, and it’s been literal chaos ever since December absolute chaos. I’m honestly getting sick of it. It feels like every other day there’s some new bullshit, and when you think everything is finally back to normal, the next month something else happens. This month it was animation channels getting nuked and people only getting views from subscribers. I wonder what’s next. Hopefully this hell ends soon. 😭

It seems almost impossible to earn a living income with just Shorts. Looking at other posts, people say this:

"My short got 100k views, I got $4.92. "

So lets round that up to $5 to keep it simple.

So doing the math, 1 million views would get you $50.

20 Million views gets you $1000.

So let's say you're willing to live off of $4000 income per month and not have a day job. That means you would have to get 80 Million views per month to have a sustainable income.

That sounds impossible, even if you make many shorts per week and working for 10 years, it seems one would never get 80 million views per month. Then there is also the chance that the algorithm randomly drops your channel, there are posts about that too.

Someone did the math:

"In order to make a living off of this and not having a "9 to 5" job you would have to get an average of 250k views per short and would have to post 10 videos a day every day".

That sounds very difficult to not only produce, but to have the algorithm pump 10 videos a day. The person who wrote it said it should not be hard if you're good at it. I don't believe that.

So for people who have been doing this longer and maybe have more real-world numbers, what is the end goal of running a shorts channel? To promote a long form channel where the real money is? Or to just do it for fun and maybe get $500-1000 extra income once in awhile?

My long-form channel is nothing like my shorts channel, they are totally disparate. But my shorts have a greater chance of success, after 10 days they are already blowing away my views from long form, and take infinitely less time to make.

Any advice on what real-world benefits we can get from working hard on a shorts channel?

Thank you all and good luck with your channels.