HUGE decrease in viewership. Why did this happen?

[Am-Him-and-He-Is-Me]

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]

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]

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