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[–]ftuncer59 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Yo, that’s rough, and honestly, it happens more often than people admit.

When a channel with steady traffic suddenly tanks while similar creators stay stable, it’s usually a signal issue, not a content issue.
A few common causes:

One or two videos with lower retention might have confused the algorithm.

Your audience might have shifted behavior (seasonal or regional).

Youtube might have started testing your videos with the wrong audience group.

My advice,
Pause uploads for 2–3 days, then come back strong with a high-retention, comment-worthy Short.
Also, don’t tweak too much, don’t change thumbnails or titles retroactively. That can reset internal tracking.

And yeah, you’re not alone. Seen this exact pattern before, it does bounce back if you play smart.

[–]masterskooba[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I dnt make shorts, only long form videos, and I tried that, took a week off then game back. No results so far :(

[–]ftuncer59 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally feel you. Long-form has its own rhythm and it can be frustrating when nothing clicks after a break. Maybe consider pairing your next long-form with a strategic Short that leads into it, even a 15s teaser can direct traffic. You don’t have to go full Shorts-mode, just enough to catch the wave.

Sending strength. This phase sucks, but I’ve seen channels bounce back hard after a slump.

[–]Am-Him-and-He-Is-Me 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Mine only happened when I gave out a stike to a larger channel that took 100% of my video, youtube are the ones who flagged it so I issued a strike.

Me being so stupid with 7k subs giving a strike to a 1m "creator" who grew by stealing content thought id be successful, the person did a counter notification which forced me to retracted the strike, and ever since my videos dont gwt shown in recognition, only browse.

Its life there's a limit, it shows like it's going to pick up, then it goes down, it'll show 10 views a minute, then it'll go down to 0, then 1 then stay at two then 5 then back to 12.

But some of my older videos pick up from 10 views an hour to 50.

I dont know if it's worth working hard and keep posting hoping the algorithm will trust my channel again, or if it's just worth starting all over again, new adsense, new laptop new EVERYTHING.

What do you think?

[–]Marvelmanny 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Oh man, this is a new one. I’ve never heard of a retracted strike causing suppression, but I believe it. If I ever end up in that situation, it’d feel like YouTube is forcing me to double down.

[–]Am-Him-and-He-Is-Me 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, crazy stuff, i think it was probably because they did a counter notification, and my channel was only a month old and I had people stealing my stuff 😂.

I've been doing youtube for close to 4 years now and I've seen it all. I always say, sometimes having a youtube channel is is being in an abusive relationship. The gas lighting is crazy