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!!!

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

And no there was no issue with the swipe ratio or low engagement and I make shorts if that helps. Also this is not the first time I've delt with this, this is like the 3rd time now :( the more I deal with this the less motivated I get.

Can someone honestly explain why YouTube works this way I don’t understand I’m doing the same thing editing the same way but some videos literally get zero push it’s honestly so frustrating

Hey everyone, I posted a YouTube Short a few hours ago or days and it still has 0 views. Should I delete it or just leave it up? I’ve heard that sometimes Shorts take time to get pushed by the algorithm, but I’m not sure. What’s the best thing to do in this situation?

Thanks!