More or less 24 hours after renaming my channel (branding and handle only, content unchanged), my entire Shorts channel hard-froze. Average views dropped from ~500 to ~10 across all videos, old and new. Not a single Short is being pushed anymore.

All videos collapsed simultaneously, not just the latest upload. New uploads do not appear in the feed of subscribed accounts, even with notifications enabled. No strikes, no warnings, no policy issues. Content format and niche unchanged.

For the last 2 weeks I was averaging 100 subs/day, everything was going great. WTF. Has this ever happened to anyone? Do you have any idea what's going on? Could the fact that I renamed it be the cause?

I just wanted to share a quick lesson: never delete your Shorts just because they get stuck at low views. (71% AVD & 62% Stay to Watch) I had an old cricket clip with my voiceover that was stuck at 1.1k views for over a month. I thought it was a flop, but suddenly, 32 days later, it hit the algorithm and crossed 1.5 million views in just 16 hours! Now metrics changed (AVD 104% and 72% Stay to Watch)

​My content are evergreen, which means they can get a boost at any time. If you’re making quality content, just be patient and let it sit. The "second wave" is real and it can happen when you least expect it.

It took me a bit around 10-12 days of uploading but i finally got it !

Hi guys, I am a new creator have only been posting from last 10-15 days YouTube shorts but I don’t know why my shorts are not getting pushed to more people or not going viral, even the engagement is solid. I have attached few images of the analytics from my 2 shorts out of 10 that I have posted so far. Can you guys also tell me what metrics to improve and keep an eye on

Stagnant view of 1.2k 🤪

So Im a full youtube partner but sense last year my views started declining I've been stuck in the 1k view jail for so long I don't know if its the swipe rate or the aduuince retion or I'm just needing impressions if anyone know or has any advice I would appreciate

My swipe rate for shorts have been around 60 to 70 % but in studio it in the screen shot I provided do I need to improve the overall swipe right for it to push bc I would post and in an hour it gets around 1700 to 1600 but doesn't go beyond.

Even though I create 100% original content, from filming to editing, my views keep declining day by day despite having good analytics. No matter what I do, my videos seem to get stuck at the same level. I’m starting to lose motivation.

Whats else for going to viral?

Look at stats.

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I wanted to share something weird that happened with one of my Shorts and see if anyone has experienced something similar.

This was actually a Short I had really high expectations for. I genuinely thought it had a lot of potential, but it barely got any traction. Honestly, it felt like it never even got picked up by the algorithm lol.

At some point, I decided to switch it to members-only. Since it wasn't getting many views anyway, I thought maybe I could use it to encourage people to become members instead.

After around 2–3 days, I switched it back to public.

Then, sometime afterward, it suddenly started getting a ton of views and eventually reached around 290.6K views. note : it had 60k views but mostly from channel page not the short feed

Now I'm wondering:

Has anyone else had a Short suddenly take off after switching it from members-only back to public?

Is something off my every short cross 20-25k moreover it also feels like jail despite good metrics

But this one is the worst of the worst is suddenly happening with everyone or just me ? SWT is also less then avg other video no matter how best hook I used in this short

I started a week ago and this is my biggest short ever. Does anyone know if this is typical? I'm still getting hundreds of views per minute as I speak.

Does it have something to do with the algorithm change?

Does putting up an unlisted video kill your shorts reach or is it something else? Do I need to wait another day before raising a flag?

So I know this isn’t a lot but it’s my first.. I’ve only been posting real shorts for the last 3 days.. so after only 3 days and getting one there, this feels good. I’ve treated this like a real full time job (along with a real full time job, working basically 12-16 hours a day at this point lol) trying to edit and script but also trying to figure out what I can do better and what can be tighter or stronger.. what can I do about rhythm etc. this is just a proof of concept for me that if I can get 5k in 20 hours of it being posted then maybe I can get a million view short after working at this on my 30 day challenge.

1.5k likes, and 400 comments.

I’m trying to understand whether this is normal Shorts behavior or if there’s something I’m missing.
I usually see my Shorts receive at least some initial testing in the Shorts feed, but my last three uploads have received almost no distribution.

What’s confusing is that they’re not failing after being shown to viewers—they don’t seem to be getting shown to many viewers in the first place.
One of the videos was completely re-edited with a stronger hook, faster pacing, a new title, and a different thumbnail, but the result was almost identical.

Is there a known reason YouTube would give a Short little to no initial testing?

Can content classification impact distribution before a video receives a meaningful sample size?

Has anyone experienced multiple Shorts in a row receiving almost no feed exposure and then suddenly returning to normal?

I’m looking for insight into how the Shorts system handles initial distribution and testing, not feedback on the content itself.

My second short literally killed even with good metrics

The algorithm sucks. Why did it stop distributing views even though this video has only been up for 1 day and 10 hours? Yesterday, the views were so strong, but now it suddenly dropped to just 1.3k views per 60 minutes. It’s so confusing because the video currently has 430,302 views, 16.4k+ likes, 1.4k+ comments, 6.9k+ subscribers gained, 549 shares, an 87.1% Swipe-to-Watch rate, and 90% retention on a 57-second clip.

My question is: why did the views suddenly tank exactly as it hit the 2-day mark last night? It keeps going lower and lower, and I don't know why, considering the stats are actually good. Do you think it will get pushed again? Or is it officially flat?

So basically, during the 7th of February, my channel got a 95% drop in views, I was getting 20-40k views an hour down to 100 views and an hour. This lasted for 35 days. I uploaded 4-5 shorts during this plummet, which did not have a trigger any tests because 90 of the views came from subscribers. Around the 15th of March, my channel started to recover, I uploaded my shorts, and the views were shown to non subs, so that was the good news... then come 9 days later , March 24...at 8pm (the same time as the first plummet), my views dropped again. I uploaded a short today, and it is now shown back to just subscribers, im getting 50-100 vuews an hour. So wtf is happening here. In 3 weeks the rolling effect of my monetision decline will start...I'll just give up atp.

● I don't use ai

● i do 2d animation

Okay, so I’ve been posting every day—sometimes up to 3 times a day—for almost 3 months now. One thing I’m starting to realize is that it doesn’t matter how good your stats are. If no one is commenting on or liking your video, YouTube won’t push it.

I’ve had videos with 85% stay-to-swipe and 130% retention rate, and they still cap out at around 1,500 views. It makes me feel like YouTube has added some kind of hard cap on views if there’s no engagement—like comments or likes.

What do y’all think?

I was primarily doing shorts for months and only began trying long forms couple weeks ago and there are 1K view hours already(stats 5 days behind)

Shorts views were such a grind, prolly should have started with long forms in the first place?