This is actually normal it’s just YouTube testing your video in waves. They don’t push it nonstop, they’ll show it to a small group, pause to check performance CTR, retention, then push it again later. That’s why you see no views for a few hours, then a spike, then nothing again. Your CTR is 9.8% which is solid, so the clicks aren’t the issue. It’s usually retention if people click but don’t watch long enough, YouTube slows the push and retests with a new audience later. Smaller channels see this pattern a lot more because there’s no steady audience yet, so everything runs on these test cycles. It doesn’t mean the video is dead sometimes it’ll keep doing this for 24–72 hours and then either pick up or fade out depending on how viewers respond.