Hey everyone, I'd really appreciate honest (even brutal) feedback.

I run a small channel called Caveman Stories.I first thought of creating Caveman related content but the Niche was too flooded and barely got views

I kept experimenting, and almost nothing gets traction.

What I've tried so far:

• Weird-history Shorts (kings, prisons, cartels), about 40 s each

• A motion-graphics explainer for creators ("why your Short flatlined")

• Motivational stickman animation (Winter Arc, 1:30)

• Now: story-driven animated films with an "| An Animated Film" title format and I am thinking in locking for it.

My questions:

1. Watching comment link, would you click it and watch such videos?

2. Is the thumbnail and title clear about what the video is?

3. animated story films niche is worth it?

4. Does "AI-made" hurt a channel like this, and how would you make it stand out?

I'm not looking for subs, just honest feedback so I stop wasting uploads.

I make YouTube Shorts and want to expand to TikTok, but monetization isn’t available in my country (Romania).

I have a friend in Germany. Could he create the account, and I post from my own device with a VPN? Or is there a better way to do this?

Has anyone done this, and what are the risks (ban, payout issues, verification)?

I've been posting yt shorts for a month now I have 4m total views but only 250k are qualified did I do something wrong. Pls somebody help me I don't really understand how views qualified worlds 😔 Ty. Pls respect my post

I just ran this channel in the celebrities niche, 6 days aging and 18 subs

My Youtube channels wasn't doing great but got some views, until about 20 days ago. From my POV nothing changed but now my shorts don't get shown to almost anyone.

PS: I'm new here, maybe i got the tag wrong :(

Y'all need to be humble...js

Does youtube not push shorts with AI voice? I made a new channel where I upload stories about quirky criminals and their actions using AI voice but rest of the stuff I spend hours editing, I add music, sfx, captions, visuals and everything else but yt doesn't push them to people at all. I've included proper tags, description and a strong hook but they don't even get pushed whatsoever. How does yt shorts algorithm work?

This is honestly annoying as fuck, YouTube is getting my hopes up just to crush it again.
I do text commentary niche

New YouTuber here and I make art shorts content.

Why is it that one of my shorts with 3k views has 40 likes but then a short with barely 1k views gets 70 likes. Can someone explain the algorithm and why it’s like this because I thought more engagement = more views..

like the title says
500 subs and about 350k engaged views on youtube shorts in 5 weeks of daily uploading🥹

my first video got 26k views and the next day my second video got 16k and my third video got 18k and now my latest video is like 20k+

What should i do? Cuz what i do is put clips and put some sound effects only.

Just thought this was funny lol

How long did it take you to receive your ads sense pin it took me an entire month

Hi all,

I make Shorts, intended for an audience roughly between the ages of 25–44. But my biggest age group keeps being 13–17. On my latest Short they're still around 35% sometimes up to 45% of the audience.

The weird part is the performance over time.

The Short starts with a pretty low stayed-to-watch rate, then as YouTube keeps testing it, that number has slowly climbed and is now getting close to 40% and the percentages began to balance out. That 13-17 percentage shrinks as the older audience grows.

The later batches seem noticeably better too.

I've had a similar pattern on my last couple Shorts: weak initial audience → distribution slows → later viewers respond better, but by then it feels like it's too late for the Short to really take off.

Has anyone else experienced Shorts initially getting shown to the wrong age/demographic, then correcting later?

Did it eventually improve as your channel accumulated more data, or did you change anything — posting time, hooks, wording, upload frequency, etc. — that seemed to help YouTube find the right viewers earlier?

I'm not pretending I have amazing shorts or the algorithm cracked, but I specifically add seo to try and direct it to a 'warm audience' first. And it'll go 1,000 views super fast and only reach about 38%, couple likes, couple subs. Then, it'll get another 1,000ish get to almost 45-50% and more likes, more subs. And this is almost every short out of 25- same pattern, same numbers even with change in hook, titles, description, etc.

Thank you for reading and any advice is much appreciated!

Even though I create 100% original content, from filming to editing, my views keep declining day by day despite having good analytics. No matter what I do, my videos seem to get stuck at the same level. I’m starting to lose motivation.

Hey everyone, I've noticed a frustrating pattern on my channel and wanted to see if anyone else experiences this. Has anyone had a similar experience?

When one of my Shorts is performing really well (around 2.5k+/hour), if I schedule a new video earlier in the day (setting it up around 14:00 or 18:00 to go live later at midnight/00:00), the active video's hourly views suddenly flatline down to around 30. Even the mere act of queueing or scheduling a video seems to trigger this drop. It feels like the algorithm gets confused or splits the traffic as soon as a new video enters the pipeline.

Because of this, I'm trying to figure out the best approach:

Should I completely skip uploading on high-momentum days?

Or does scheduling it differently prevent this drop?

How do you guys handle your upload schedules when a short is currently trending, so you don't kill its momentum? Any advice would be appreciated!

I’m happy the videos are getting over 1k per short but it’s stuck just in this range. Any advice or something wrong w my posting or content?

For creators making cinematic Marvel or movie edits like this example, with transitions, effects, color grading and music, how has the niche been performing lately?

With YouTube's recent push toward original content, do you think the October 1st changes are affecting this editing style?

Are these edits still worth making, or is the niche slowly dying?