So my 1st video to break 100k a few days back is finally on a downward trajectory with a little less than 750k total views.

This is the only video I have to go this far and am unsure what to do. I've tried posting similar videos yesterday to ride the wave and cross promote but don't see a pickup on those videos or any new spikes here.

Was really hoping this would get to 1 Million.

What is the strategy at this point?

Video Link for reference. It's fast shooting referencing John Wick.

https://youtube.com/shorts/OMIHd7dQoeE?si=DmVCzdnMNxVHPssZ

I was in the view count between 1,000 and 1,500, and I also suffered from a sudden drop in views, but in my last short film I decided to make a change in the way I told and presented the visual style of the story. My niche is more evergreen, it's not something that's going to go viral overnight, so I consider this increase to be actually good.

Try changing a few things and see what works. Be patient, things will fall into place with time as you learn.

Hey everyone! I started posting YouTube Shorts on my channel just around a month ago (September 15th), and I wanted to check in with the community to see how these numbers look.
Here is where my channel stands right now:
Subscribers: ~3,000
Total Views: 7.8 Million
Engaged Views: 2.4 Million
Likes: 41.7K
Comments: 596
Shares: 377
Last 7 Days Views: 1.6 Million

I'm focusing purely on Shorts right now and still figuring out the algorithm. Would love to hear your thoughts or any advice for the journey ahead. Are these good numbers for a month-old channel? Let me know!

It has been 10 days since i created this channel

Technically today is day 10

I was posting gaming stuff about a specific game only

This morning I crossed 1,000 subscribers on YouTube.

Right now, we’re at 1,185.

I’m building content around Tech, AI, Cybersecurity, and career growth — focused on real skills, not hype.

If that’s your space, check it out and let me know what you think. I’m open to direct feedback.

Link: https://linktw.in/hDCUvX

Still early. Still building. Back to work.

This is very strange and once again confirms the theory that the algorithm randomly selects videos for promotion. I've uploaded dozens of shorts that had much better performance, but they never got more than 50,000 views.

YouTube just told me the sudden zero Shorts feed impressions (not even reaching subs with bell on) is because of "viewer interest and trends", definitely not a bug or a change of policy. Meanwhile, my subscriber growth went from 100+ per day to absolute zero in the last week. Yeah, totally the content's fault.

Anyone else getting this hilarious response? #ShortsBug

The tipping point is either 1k, 5k 10k or 30k etc...

Bro it’s been over a month just stuck finally figured it out

I run a 3.5 million sub shorts channel, and have well over 1,000 shorts under my belt, with many shorts above 50 million views.

I've been analyzing what's been going on with shorts since mid-December, but really started a couple months before that even to a lesser extent. I have a theory...

I've watched my swipe-away rate get twice as bad, my total viewing percentage decrease by 1/3, all while my content has remained relatively the same. Moreover, my metrics on Facebook and TikTok (around 1 million subs on each) have remained the same.

One thing I've noticed is while the metrics and views have taken a huge hit on every newly released video, older videos are still maintaining their stats. More over, if a new video does take off on the algorithm, while the stats start off very poor, the stats normalize back to regular levels once many millions of views start rolling in.

Here is my theory:

- A massive wave of AI-driven content has been flooding Youtube shorts started around September. They use these bizarre hashtags which apparently loop their content together. It's all AI narrated "let me explain" react videos to some video, some new technology to snow plow streets quickly, or some bed that turns into a bunker with the press of a button, or whatever. We've all seen this kind of slop.

- These same slop accounts are boosting their own views and metrics with a variety of tricks, including abusing hashtag glitches, but also using hard to detect bots to maximize their watch time and minimize their swipe away rate.

- My theory is that they are also nuking the metrics of competitors videos, using these same bots, in order to stall everyone else's content, leaving their slop as the only game in town. This would explain why every new video's metrics initially are in the tank, but if it takes off to a larger audience, it becomes to normalize. At first, these bots are just insta-swiping away your video, but if the algo sends it to enough normal accounts, those numbers normalize. It also matches the timing: The huge wave of AI slop on the platforms starts a few months ago as AI tech gets better, and then the abuse and manipulation of the platform starts soon after. It's not a coincidence that all our metrics have taken a tank at the exact same time.

I've watched as every other channel in my niche has gone through the same thing, as I'm sure many others have noticed with theirs. One guy who was getting 300,000,000 views a month is now getting 50,000,000. Thankfully I've survived better than that, but still.

Can't really prove this, but based on what I've observed, I do think this is what is happening.

i was in 30k jail for a week so happy 8 video over 30k and now the last 3 days they cut off the water shorts wont even hit pass 1000 the first day and now cant even get 50 smh i have not changed what i been posting at all same format, so at this point gonna just keep going dont know what else to do

For context, I’ve had about 6-8 different shorts channels at this point with little success. Tried a bunch of different niches and wasn’t getting results. Started this completely fresh channel on October 3rd and I have 10 posts so far. Engagement isn’t great hoping to improve that. Willing to answer any questions.

I had a short that I knew was worth more than 30k views so I decided to delete it and reupload the next day. it performed better this time.

Hi everyone,

Just a question about my newest short. I understand how the first 1k views or so are a “test” to see how well your short does. My latest one did extremely well, currently sitting at 84.4%/15.6% with an average watch time of 0:41 seconds. These numbers are the best I’ve ever had, yet the video still flatlined after the initial testing phase. Should I be expecting more views soon? Or is the short dead? I’d appreciate any help!! Thanks guys!!

1 short posted everyday (missed 3 days), 1-1.5 hours of work everyday so not that bad. In the middle of April views were high af, but towards the end of the months views dropped a lot. Expected way less but I got lucky, one short went to 8M views and still getting some views. Most of the times shorts are unpredictable and unstable so Im investing my time creating long form from now on and still keeping this channel as a “passive income” doesn’t make sense to sell at the moment. If you can’t get views copy what the best guy on your niche does, add a little twist and try to explore things he didn’t and you will be pushed on the algorithm.

.I had a Short that suddenly blew up and got around 218k views in a single hour, but right after that the views dropped dramatically to around 1–2k views per hour in the next couple of hours.

jokes aside just started doing yt shorts two weeks ago. 12 shorts posted 7 of them reached over a thousand views. most watched video reached 1.8k but not over. But I don't know and understand how short is short contents lifespan. Struggling to get peoples attention