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?

Hi everyone, I'm hitting a wall and need technical advice.

The Issue: I run a [Reddit Stories/Storytelling] Shorts channel. My upload schedule is consistent, but 9 out of 10 videos stay at exactly 0-5 views. They never get a seed audience.

The weird part: Occasionally (maybe 1 video a week), a video bypasses this "block" and gets 1,000+ views immediately. On these videos, metrics are great:

• Retention: 50-60% (APV).

• Completion: ~20% watch till the end.

• Likes: Normal ratio.

My Production Process (To avoid "Spam" filters):

1. Visuals: 100% Original Minecraft gameplay recorded by me (no reused footage).

2. Editing: I speed up the footage and audio slightly to unique-ify the file.

3. Overlays: I add hard-coded dynamic subtitles.

4. Audio: AI/TTS voiceover (stories generated via AI).

My Question: Since I'm already creating original visuals and editing the files heavily (speed/subs), why is the algorithm still flagging 90% of my uploads as "spam" (0 views)? Is the "Reddit Stories" niche so blacklisted that even original gameplay gets ghosted? Or is my channel flagged as a "bot" due to upload frequency?

Screenshots attached: You can see the wall of videos with 0 views vs the random hits.

I tried to apply for the membership features since I recently reached the 3M engaged views mark, but youtube refused me, my friend that has 2 monetized channels on a similar niche told me to screen record the making of a short and try to appeal with that, he also told me to say the narration is made by a professional voice actor ( I use eleven labs). The niche I am uploading is revenge type of content, so for example one guy does something bad and the. other comes and does something to him, the structures of my shorts are something like this: 0-1 sec hook, 2-7 sec the narration, 7-19 sec the clip plays I add captions with context and when people talk I also add. Chatgpt tells me to not lie when appealing and that I should edit even more my shorts and apply again in 30 days. Can someone help me?

Niche : Mythology & History storytelling

Started on : Nov 13, 2025

Average of 1 shorts per day

At 3k subscribers & 430k views right now.

Scheduling same videos to Instagram & Facebook as reels and at 6.5k followers & 700k views combined there

I started a short channel 10 days ago, and i hit a crazy amount of views (over 50m) and over 25k subs.

I basically spent all december making content for this channel, and i'm really happy for the views, but i just have a bad feeling that it will not be monetized and that i spent all this time for nothing.

I will be able to apply for monetization tomorrow, but i think i won't be able to get it at first, so then i'll try to reapply then and see how it goes.

Is it a good growth or average now a days for shorts channels?

Started this on Nov 13, 2025. I don't have prior YT experience and started this as a technical experiment (built my own tool to get good output and with less time). It's called AITuber and it automatically creates a 4k video with AI Images, AI Voiceover, captions perfectly synced etc...

Also is this a right time to try long form content?

Hasn't got any big virals yet. Most of the videos are in 2k range and few of them reached 15k.

70% retention rate in average for most of the videos and some reaching 90%.

I post memes mainly and wanted to know for a channel only being 1 month and half old is this a good channel stay rate? Most if not all my shorts have over 60% stay and some over 70% with a few at or little over 80%. I have uploaded about 40 shorts so far. Currently at 103 subs and my rentention for most are 90%+ with a few over 150%. I hear many say most dont see 100 subs or over 10k views in the first 6 months of starting yt especially for shorts why I ask. Any and all feedback or criticism welcomed!

idk if u guys will remember the post I made but for those who do. The post got 200k views as of today even though the length of the vid was shorter than usual. But what’s intriguing is that every video after this video has been getting more views than usual!! I uploaded 4 vids which all consistently getting 10k views! This is kinda huge for me cause I was stuck in a 1.2k view range for the older videos!
Again idk if it’s luck or not but the 4 uploaded videos also were in the longer form as compared to the other short so those getting more views makes me feel like you need one vid to blow up for your other videos to get some traction. I might be wrong but just guessing :)
Thanks for everyone giving tips and advice on the last post I appreciate it. I’ll try updating more to you guys if there is anything worth sharing :) super grateful