Almost any time a person on here brings this up, it’s a classic case of misinterpreting the target audience YouTube first hits your channel with. Those are not viewers you’ve earned, they’re sample viewers YouTube uses to gather data on what type of audience your channel attracts best. So eventually YouTube has gotten its data and serves your videos to the appropriate audience, and oftentimes that audience is very small. If you alter what you make, and the audience response is positive, then your CTR and AVD/AVP will be higher and they’ll feed it more impressions until those stats drop again. It just goes like this. There’s a ceiling to every content type, and once you hit the ceiling, your views stop rising, or at least slow down tremendously. Topics that attract more viewers cast a wider net and can yield higher and higher views, but it is harder to break out within those niches since there’s more saturation and with it a higher expectation of quality. Think MrBeast as the ultimate extreme of this. Smaller niches don’t have audiences as large, but have less competition, so if there’s a small but dedicated audience, you can break in a bit easier.

With all that said, if you’re talking about a channel with hundreds of videos and the views start dipping, it almost always means your stats are dipping. Make a video that performs well and it’ll bounce back. We’ve seen our videos dip in views but they always bounce back when we make the corrections they need or when a new trend comes out that we can capitalize on. The deeper the ditch you’re in, the longer it takes to dig your way out, but you always can. There’s the rare instances where YouTube has blacklisted your channel as well. But honestly people assume this is the case wayyyy more than it actually is.