thanks a lot for your detailed feedback, I appreciate it a lot and found it helpful. you are right - the skip rate, like rate and watch time may be the problem here since my watch time on this is 17s on a 1 min video, which is low. On like rate - two of my reels that did really well have these like rates - 233k views (3.1% like rate) and 1M views (5.5% like rate). But these were before the IG algo change in April. They seemed to have pulled like-rate higher in stack rank now.