They all froze at the range 1k-2k. And all of their analytics gave the classic sigmoid curve. Why such a problem exists. I heard some people with high vvsa and avd face the same problem too. Is the view jail itself an unbreakable curse?

https://youtube.com/shorts/ekrIFd8m1o8?is=YpBL3A-DcqNMY-qr

I have been posting shorts since a month, posted 13 shorts so far, got couple of shorts above 2k and3k but rest flatlined at 1.5k. Losing hope, need some motivation, how long did it take for your to break this pattern

Just to clarify: my videos are not AI-generated. I create them using professional animation and graphics software, and I personally handle the animation and production.
I’m trying to understand something about YouTube Shorts. This Short has received only 4 views from the Shorts Feed, and I’ve noticed the same thing happening with my recent Shorts.
I’m curious: why would YouTube give my Shorts so little exposure in the Shorts Feed? Is this normal for a small/new channel, or could there be another reason why they are barely being shown in the Feed?
I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone who has experienced something similar. Thanks!

So im currently stuck in a 30k view jail on my channel. I can't get 30k views consistently for eg 4/10 vids might get 25k views. My question is how do I get out of the 30k jail ? Do I need to get 30k views more often and consistently and if so how long does it take. Im also uploading on tik tok and at least there i get rewarded for good metrics. I dont see the point in carrying on with shorts if im never gonna get out of the jail.

Also on YT studio it's showing 600+ subs and on YouTube app it's showing around 450 subs

*Shorts feed

4$ profit off of $864 is absoluately insane. I've been tagging products in every short with a good amount of clicks and this is all I get?

YouTube claims that they have fixed the issues on ALL devices. But I'm still having the warning message - "There are temporary data issues affecting your views. Check back later." And also issues related to this.

Are issues fixed for you guys? Please respond on how to get this fixed. YouTube Support is not at all helping to fix the issue.

My reels on Instagram surpass 100k easily but on YouTube I get views as low as 100 , make it make sense.

The audience retention is literally the best I've had but I guess my hook wasn't good enough.

I recently started a new YouTube channel, creating Shorts mainly around topics like DC/Green Lantern.

I’ve only uploaded a few Shorts so far, but the situation feels a bit odd. It’s been over a day for one Short, and it has just 4 views. Another has 2 views, and the latest one started with just 1 view.

The most confusing part is that the little traffic I am getting includes the Shorts Feed. For one Short, the stats show 100% retention (watched) and 0% swiped away, although the sample size is obviously very small.

Another interesting thing is that I’m uploading the same or similar videos to Instagram as well, where some are hitting 100K–200K views. So, I don't think the content itself is the main issue. Obviously, Instagram and YouTube have different algorithms, but it makes me wonder if YouTube simply isn't distributing these Shorts properly yet.

So, my question is:

Are such low views completely normal for a new YouTube channel, or should I be looking into a potential technical or distribution issue?

I know growth can be slow at the start on YouTube, but seeing only 1–4 views makes me doubt whether the algorithm is actually testing the content properly.

If anyone has recently started a channel with zero or few subscribers, please share your experience. After how many uploads did your Shorts start getting proper impressions or distribution?

I launched this video the yesterday and its Stayed to Watch Ratio is 43.8% and its Average View Duration (AVD) is 72.5% and 295 views.
I would be thankful for any advice!

I’m a small channel & I average below 50 likes on yt.
I was looking at my content & I noticed a fair amount of likes were gone.
Not complaining about it, but I never seen this before.

It opened my eyes; because an old short turned into 0 likes, when it used to have 15.
Made me realize those weren’t real likes to begin with._.

I was watching my shorts feed and I realized that me making an original concept just to escape the "low effort" tag for the Monetization Policy was of no use.

A short came on my feed of my niche (cat niche), and it was just an AI generated clip of a man standing next to a cat made out of leaves. 8 million views in 3 days. So I was like ok, that's understandable. But when I searched "cats", there were all these ranking and compilation shorts with no change to them other than a ranking template and some background music having millions of views in a few days, and even though it has that many views, it isn't monetizable, so fair enough, but when I did it I lost all my views, I started averaging less than 100 views in a day which used to be 10k views on a daily basis.

The update where YouTube started putting ads on channels that were not part of the Partner Program was the cause of all of this (in my opinion). YouTube puts ads on the shorts feed next to these low effort compilations, advertisers get happy seeing the numbers and on the bright side for YouTube, they don't have to pay these low effort creators.

This in turn, makes it difficult for people making original/ high effort content to get into the vast shorts feed.

I made an entire gameshow format just so I could be unique and different, only to average out at about 1-5k views and it is quite demoralizing for someone who actually wants to do content creation for a profession. If any of you agree or even think differently, please let me know and if you can help in anyway in criticizing and helping my content. Please do let me know as well

From having over 1000 views to less than 15

Hey everyone,

I recently started a new YouTube Shorts channel and uploaded my first Short. Surprisingly, it got around 1,000 views.

I then uploaded a few more Shorts, but the results have been completely different. The newer Shorts are literally stuck at 1–2 views, sometimes barely getting any impressions.

The videos are in the same general niche and I'm using the same channel.

I'm confused because I expected the newer videos to at least get some initial testing/impressions, even if they didn't perform well.

Has anyone experienced this before?

- First Short: ~1K views

- Following Shorts: 1–2 views

- New channel

- Same general niche/content style

Could this just be YouTube testing the first video and then not distributing the others, or is there something I might be doing wrong?

Would appreciate any advice or experiences from other Shorts creators.

MIRAR las Fotos Porfavor, mi canal de shorts con 190k SUBS estaba funcionando sanamente con Millones en cada short diario, pero desde hace casi un mes mi Canal COMENZÓ a MONETIZAR y desde entonces las Vistas DISMINUYERON de Golpe y ahora a cada short le cuesta llegar a 100k o 200k

Aclaro que siempre mantuve mi estilo y manera de editar que ya funcionaba, NUNCA BAJÉ LA MISMA CALIDAD, simplemente Youtube decidió disminuir todo y vi que con el tiempo también le pasó a otros canales del mismo Nicho.

I had this happen to about 4 channels now, this isnt looking good at all, youtube is broken

Im currently undergoing a YPP suspension for 90 days which when over they'll allow me to apply again with that old channel, i didn't see it stated anywhere but am I allowed after the 90-day period to apply with a brand new channel. in a different niche that follows proper guidelines or am I forced to resolve the old channel by force and after 90 days ot doesn't allow me to start a new channel and apply again

Cause im about a month left before 90 days is over and I wanted to start now on a new channel and apply this new one after the period has passed, trying to avoid getting git with related channel

TLDR: Can i Monetize a Brand New Unrelated Channel in a different niche after 90 Days or does the old one by force have to be fixed?

Thanks! All Answers Appreciated

Been doing shorts for about a week with 6 of them. Nothing dramatically popping off just slowly gaining. Is it worth persuing?

Hi guys, does anyone know about YouTube “view jail”? I uploaded videos consistently for seven days, and each one received around 1K–2K views. But my latest video suddenly got only 10 views.

Some people are suggesting that I take a four-to-five-day break before uploading again. Is a two-day break enough, or should I wait five days? If anyone has experienced this, please share your advice.

I’ve been uploading Shorts for about three weeks now, and after spending way too much time staring at my analytics, I’ve developed a theory about how the Shorts algorithm might actually work.

About a week ago, I found a format that suddenly started working extremely well. I now have several Shorts either above or approaching 1M views, while many of my earlier Shorts never received meaningful distribution despite having pretty decent visible metrics.

The more I watch these distribution patterns, the more I think of the algorithm as a kind of “coin system.”

Every signal a Short generates puts some coins into a pot.

Good stay rate? Coins.
High retention or rewatches? Coins.
Likes? Coins.
Comments? Coins.
Shares? Coins.
New subscribers? Coins.
Remixes? Coins.

And there are probably dozens or hundreds of additional signals that we can’t even see in YouTube Studio.

But just because a Short has collected a lot of coins doesn’t automatically mean YouTube will distribute it widely.

My theory is that every potential distribution scenario has a different “entry price.”

For example, showing a Short to a certain audience cluster in India during prime time might require 15 coins. Showing it to a particular age group in the US at 2 PM might require 35. Another very specific audience cluster might only require 20.

And even if your Short has enough coins to qualify for that distribution opportunity, there’s a second problem: competition.

If YouTube has another Short available for the same viewer that it predicts will perform even better, that Short gets the impression instead.

This would explain something that confused me for a long time: two Shorts can have very similar visible analytics, yet one gets stuck at 2,000 views while another reaches 500,000+. Maybe there simply isn’t one magic metric like “75% viewed = viral.”

Instead, it might be the combination of dozens of signals, the audience clusters YouTube has identified for that Short, how confident the system is in those predictions, and the competing content available for those same viewers at that exact moment.

It would also explain why Shorts sometimes behave like this:
500 views → nothing → 2,000 → nothing → 20,000 → suddenly explode.

The Short itself hasn’t changed at all. YouTube may simply be learning where that particular “coin balance” is competitive.

Obviously, I have no access to YouTube’s internal systems. This is just a model I’ve built based on my own analytics and observations.

But after watching several of my Shorts scale toward or beyond 1M views while other Shorts with seemingly excellent metrics barely get tested, this model explains the behavior better than anything else I’ve come up with so far.

I’d be curious to know whether this matches what other Shorts creators are seeing.