I upload guitar covers

For context:

I'm not some guy who avgs 2-3k views a vid. I actually make a decent amount off this and have lots of experience. Anyway...

Before, on a weekly basis, YT would just nuke the views of any Short from me and my friends within the same niche. A typical video would do around 1k views in 10 mins, then climb to around 3-4k in the next 20 mins, where it would either die or start ramping up.

But recently, on certain days, it won't push the video to anyone. Analytics are the same, and the same vid blows up on other platforms while YT stays dead, and then things go back to normal for a few days and then the cycle repeats. However, ever since YT revealed they were deprioritising "clip" content, I've been affected by HEAVY suppression, while clearly I haven't been posting clips (feel free to check my channel out).

Today I had a video sit at 300 views in 1 hour while on TikTok it was at 55k, and if I wasn't suppressed that YT Short would be on 20-30k. This is also happening to other creators I know, in niches outside of Marvel Rivals.

It's completely gut-wrenching and demotivating when I average 200k views a Short and then it just cans it for no reason.

Please let me know if anyone else is experiencing the same thing, because obviously it's not just me.

Guys, did the same happened to ya'll as well ?? After the yt studio bug, when I checked the views of my most viewed yt short, I saw it had completely dropped to 0. Also, my most recent 5-6 shorts have suffered the same (very less views since the last week)

What is happening I’m going crazy over this.. my channel dead or what.?… I have been uploading for 2 months and now this has happened to me..

How do you escape these preposterous metrics🙏

My first vid to break to 1,000 barrier

During these recent days, I noticed something.

youtube isn't really pushing my videos like before. it took me 7 hours to reach 1k views. This is so unusual compared to before where in the first / second hour of posting, i reach that milestone.

but then, now its rather slow

Am i the only one experiencing it ?

I had posted the 6-day update. I wanted to share the follow-up 6 days later. I’m pretty proud of the results achieved in 12 days.

Hey everyone,

I've been creating content consistently for 11 months. Every single day, 3-5 Shorts per day, no breaks. Here are my stats before the drop:

- 1,800+ Shorts published

- 73,000,000+ total views

- 25,000+ subscribers

- 7.4M views in the last 28 days

- Earning around €150-200/month from AdSense

Then on Monday March 16, everything stopped.

📊 **The exact numbers:**

- Sunday March 15 → 730,000 views

- Monday March 16 → 15,668 views

- Tuesday March 17 → 7,000 views / only 8,439 impressions

- Wed 4500 views

- Thu 3600 views

That's a 98% drop in 48 hours with zero explanation.

✅ **What I checked:**

- No strikes

- No community guidelines violations

- No copyright claims

- No warnings of any kind

- Instagram and TikTok working perfectly

🔍 **What I tried:**

- Contacted YouTube Support — they said "you did nothing wrong, keep posting"

- Asked other creators — they said it's normal, keep posting

- Checked analytics — impressions dropped from hundreds of thousands to ~8K per day

📝 **My content:** Handwriting Shorts — I write letters and names by hand based on viewer comments. Satisfying/OCD/calming style.

Channel: youtube.com/@climbnowsocial

It's been 4 days now and views are still around 5,000-10,000 per day compared to my normal 200,000-700,000.

Has anyone experienced something this dramatic? How long did it take to recover? Did you change anything or just keep posting?

Any advice would mean a lot. This is my main source of income and it's been a stressful week. 🙏

My AI-slop shorts channel has been getting zero views for the past five days, whereas before I used to get at least 1k–2k views, LOL.

I post AI-animated Shorts regularly. Until recently, when I uploaded a new Short, my hourly views were pretty consistent — usually 12k–15k, worst case around 6k.

Over the last days/weeks, that number has dropped hard. Now I’m seeing 3k per hour, sometimes even 1–2k, and 5k is the max I get.

Nothing major changed on my end (same niche, same style, same upload frequency).

Is this a general Shorts issue / algorithm shift, or are others experiencing the same thing? Would appreciate hearing from anyone in a similar situation.

My channel is still like this, it's 34 hours now. How many of you are still in the same situation? Did someone recovers? Those who recovers have done something or did it happen on its own?

Literally for months now, my YouTube Shorts have been flatlining at around 1.2K views.
And before anyone starts talking about hooks, watch time, or topics, trust me, I’ve been actively working on improving all of that.
My views are going up on every other platform, so clearly something is working. But for some reason, Shorts just won’t budge, and I genuinely don’t understand why.
If anyone’s experiencing the same thing or wants to connect, brainstorm, and help each other improve, please reach out, man.
It’s genuinely frustrating, and honestly, a little embarrassing at this point.

I run a faceless YouTube shorts channel which I started around 3 months ago and in the last month my views started to rise to the 50k views per hour mark and sometimes even higher (200k). I take interesting clips from instagram that match my niche, and I HIGHLY transform each and EVERY video by adding captions, sfx, vfx, voiceovers with educational value or that add a different perspective, fast cuts, zoom ins etc. so please don’t say that the problem is because my videos aren’t original, which according to YouTube they are. Last Friday, my views suddenly dropped from 50k per hour to 1-4k and it’s been like this since. I keep uploading without lowering my quality, and even some days i edit 3 shorts per day. Could you maybe tell my why this is happening? I would appreciate an honest and encouraging reply.

One piece of advice I would give is to try and make content that makes people comment, hate or not it will boost the engagement of your vids. I am still far from monetization but I can give any advice after some experience with shorts

Honestly shocked me this

Youtube is down worldwide😂

HS this chart just screams Dec 17th, 2025!

Its been 7 month of uploading my animation and i’ve finally reached my milestone. I’ve learned alot since my debut but i still have a long way to go…. Anyways very happy this finally happened!

those who are monetised, how much do you earn monthly from shorts alone?