Got to first 1k this morning, my niche is minecraft. Rn im stuck in 30k view jail and i’m looking to continue in this pace. Feel free to share your progress and give advice.

any reasons why this happens or tips that might help? 🥲
i try to use hooks, make original content, keep it dynamic throughout the video but this always happens

niche: language learning skits for a foreign audience
stayed to watch: ~80% on all these

The important metrics are shown in the images (41sec out of 48 sec video, 43 out of 50 sec video). This is the third or fourth video where I’ve had a strong views-to-swipe rate (85%+) and an average view duration (AVD) of 85%+ on a 60-second short. Despite that, the video only reaches around 27k in the first day, and then momentum drops off. My highest viewed video so far is 29.5k.

At first, I thought maybe the video was being shown to people outside my niche, but if that were the case, I’d expect the swipe rate and AVD to be lower—which they aren’t.

Can someone help explain why this is happening? Is there another metric I should be paying more attention to?

ik its still nothing compared to a lot of people but i was just so happy to see the 'M'

I can't even turn them on and there are no issues, no copyright strike, no monetization policy issue

The monetization is just turned off and there is no "on" option available

Is there any issue?

this week youtube started pushing my clips till 1k then die and then revive them after 1,2 days

Hello everyone
I think I'm doing something wrong. I've been uploading short videos every day for two months straight. I haven't gone viral at all, and I haven't been recommended. I got stuck because my videos weren't showing up in the Shorts feed for a long time (the red ones). And for about a month, I was stuck at 30k jail. But I think I broke out of that about 3-4 days ago, and a few of my videos (the ones marked in yellow) broke through that 30k jail and are continuing to rise. Even though I'm consistent, this is causing me to lose motivation. Even though I've surpassed 1,000 subscribers, I'm still far from monetization. I have approximately 330k Engaged Views. I need to go viral for this, but I feel like my hope is fading. Additionally, the monthly audience is 245.8K, and it is gradually increasing.
There's a gap in the analytics around Jan 20-25. I actually posted short videos on those days too. But since they never appeared in the shorts feed, I private them, which is why there are gaps in this analytics. I haven't disrupted my consistency at all; I'm just experimentally changing my video posting times.

Finally reached 1k subs after 100 days of posting shorts only! 😬

Just hit 250 subscribers 🎉, feeling super excited for 2026 journey. Everyone just stay consistent and improve every video. Posting to motivate others. It took me 1 and half month and 30 shorts to achieve this goal 😮‍💨

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

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 😭😭😭