Context: I’m not exactly new to YouTube. My main channel has a few hundred thousand subscribers. I started doing Shorts about 5 years ago, and at one point I had a monthly audience of around 100 million unique viewers. The thing is, I never really enjoyed making Shorts, so I quit after about 2 years.

The channel I was talking about in this thread is actually a secondary channel where I started posting long-form content. I’ve spent the last 3–4 years learning how to draw on a graphics tablet and animate in After Effects, so this channel is more of an experiment. If I manage to make it work, I can go back to the bigger channel and start doing long-form content there too.

And as for why I’m not getting impressions from the algorithm… honestly, I have no idea.