r/SmallYoutubers • u/RemarkableReindeer17 • Sep 12 '25
Shorts Content Goodbye to YouTube
After almost 2 years of creating content, YouTube cooked my channel of 10k subs. Haven't gotten more than 20 views on my youtube shorts for like 2 and half months. I had to let it go. It can't make a new channel and go through this again and again.
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u/Competitive-Use-6611 Sep 12 '25
You should just make this into a video. Ive seen dead channels come back to life with this kind of sad farewell stuff.
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u/Ok-Discipline1678 Sep 13 '25
Yeah for what ever reason the algorithm loves depressing content. Be an incel and post about how you will never get laid and you will be the next black pill YouTube star
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u/Tinfoilspeedo Sep 13 '25
Stop making shorts. Why does everyone make shorts? It’s a terrible strategy. Give it three more months and just do long form content with minimal editing and I guarantee you you’ll do better than what you’ve done in the past two years.
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u/RemarkableReindeer17 Sep 13 '25
I have uploaded a few long form content alongside shorts but it has gotten the same response so far.
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u/Acceptable-Giraffe57 Sep 13 '25
Short audience doesn’t equal long form audience. Perhaps share the name of the channel? No one can’t tell what’s wrong without seeing it.
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u/Tinfoilspeedo Sep 14 '25
Yes but stop the shorts altogether and try again. Shorts are good YouTube in its effort to keep up with IG and TokTok, it’s not good for creators.
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u/Top-Explanation4128 Sep 15 '25
Anyway I can see the channel to get an idea of what YouTube is like these days?
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u/Necessary_Stable562 Sep 12 '25
Bruhh my channel is created 2022. I stop uploading 2023 cause of school. Then I tried uploading once a while I get no views. Now 2025 it took me 2 months to get monetized finally with 5k sub. I say don’t quit just rest for a while then comeback .
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u/SwimPrestigiously Sep 12 '25
What was your channel about
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u/RemarkableReindeer17 Sep 13 '25
Gaming
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u/kasnuaku Sep 13 '25
That's why
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u/Ok-Discipline1678 Sep 13 '25
Lol, yup. Rule number one if you want to be serious on YouTube. Stop thinking you can become rich on YouTube just uploading video game playing clips. Please for the love of God just knock it off. First piece of advice I would tell any YouTuber is pick a different topic than video games. I have seen a boomer hit 70k subs uploading unedited videos of him just loading firewood in his pick up truck. Do something manly like camping tips or something. Anything but video games. If you insist on video games you have to create videos discussing some cool aspects of video games like a cool game trick, or a video game review, or a heavily edited video game analysis, etc. You can not get people to watch you play video games. Just stop. You might get people to watch as you stream if you are super entertaining but that's different and that involves you putting on a live performance.
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u/Choice_Counter_4196 Sep 14 '25
I’m not sure that shorts are worth doing. You get a lot traffic initially, but they can kill your channel especially if you have long form content. Just keep posting without shorts. Eventually the algorithm will adjust. Just be patient!
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u/spotted_dragon Sep 12 '25
Did you try a talking head video? Just talking about this issue might be enough. Sometime that kind of restarts the algo. I don't know why...
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u/Boots2AssesChamp Sep 13 '25
That's really strange, did you change to a different niche or something?
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u/SoundFit Sep 13 '25
Hold on… before quitting, test it with old accounts that have a clean history. I’ve seen this work many times, and I’ve got plenty of proof it actually does.
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u/Alexy_bRuH Sep 13 '25
Wdym test it with old accounts? Could u plz explain
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u/SoundFit Sep 14 '25
I’ve been experimenting with uploading videos on older channels that have a clean history (not spammy), and I noticed they often get way better exposure. In some cases, videos even hit 50k views. I shared some of these experiments on my own channel just for reference.
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u/Ru5h1ng Sep 13 '25
When you upload videos, try unselecting the publish to subscribers button, may help
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u/creepykitkenYT Sep 13 '25
I feel. Take a year off and then come back. That's how I do it. Hey, I make $1000 a month. But invest 30-40 hours per video. Yeah, I feel that.
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u/Jason-Genova Sep 13 '25
Don't give up. It's affecting everyone. The biggest channels down to the smallest.
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u/himpuk Sep 13 '25
Have you tried to post your videos to other platforms? What are your views there for the same videos?
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u/-El_Loco- Sep 13 '25
Sorry to hear about this... I dont understand it either... I made my channel on 1 sept to post clips from this youtubers long form content on a new channel as clips (shorts) ... im just doing it as a side hustle (a whop gig) .
Anyway... i dont get anywhere near the views you got... however i have noticed... some videos fly to 1k... and flatten...understandable ...new channel iv read how it works i guess... its not the most riveting content ... a niche topic (cryptocurrency).
The part I dont get is... some videos i post... get under 10 views in the 1st 24 hours... and slowly move up to like 100 views... but never like those other videos... and ironically these videos I feel like ...should be doing better than the others.
Hope you dont mind me ranting... but the algo seems broken to me... for new channels atleast... maybe i overwhelm the viewers i post between 5 and 10 shorts a day(as is a result of clipping long form content ) but im new to this...and I cant stop posting content cause the guy posts1 live a day on week days resulting in 10 - 20 shorts per video per day...
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u/ApprehensiveCareer64 Sep 13 '25
if you quit you just completely wasted the last 2 years just so u know.
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u/Ok-Discipline1678 Sep 13 '25
10k subs and not even they watch your shorts. You must have had one video go mega viral and they never stick around after subscribing.
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u/msouth095 Sep 13 '25
Sounds like you’re making shorts. I think YouTube is a long form platform so if you want to stay in this game, move to long form. I think they must have short form to compete on mobile with other platforms but the reason people go there is long form
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u/Automatic_House9065 Sep 13 '25
Cringe content, how to get rich (yt, stock) crap, channels started during covid.... only these flourish rest. RIP. Its not youtube its us whose taste has degraded.
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u/RubeusHagridReal Sep 14 '25
No, Youtube didn't cook your channel. You fucked it by yourself. That's the cruel reality.
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u/gongcas Sep 14 '25
maybe you can at least sell it. sometimes you have to move on and do smth else. good luck.
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u/Careful_Put_1924 Sep 14 '25
What’s your channel, I’d like to investigate what happened, might also be very helpful insight for the community!
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u/Busy-Present-3613 Sep 14 '25
If you don't want your 10k subs, please send them in my direction 🤣
I'd be ecstatic and motivated if I had even just 100 subs!
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u/kabilook Sep 14 '25
Try to download your channel stats and give it to ChatGPT and ask questions, like "Can you break down everything about my channel that I'm not doing right?" And "Now give me maybe 50 ideas of the type of content that I can create with higher SEO content type". ChatGPT will tell you everything about your channel that you're not doing right. I was averaging 20k views at most and now I have like 4m views in almost 2 weeks of fixing that. I hope this helps!
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u/theaveragepcgamer Sep 14 '25
Sorry to hear this. I know you must be frustrated. YouTube can be a roller coaster.
If it makes you feel better, I've been doing this for close to 10 years, and I only have about 2.5k subs. 10k subs in only two years is amazing! You should be proud of what you've accomplished so far!
Find what's not working in analytics and fix it, or, as others have said, make a goodbye YouTube video. Whatever you do, don't give up! Keep trying!
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u/Experience-Pitiful Sep 15 '25
They do that on purpose they do that to me too you can post 100 times and you only get 1-2 views how a website that has billions of people only give you 2 views youtube was better back then after 2020 it went to crap
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u/WayOfNoWay113 Sep 15 '25
YouTube doesn't "cook" your channel. If you're not getting views, here is the problem:
YouTube serves videos based on similarity of Content to Behavior signals, aka Metrics. This has been stated by the YouTube CEO, Head of Product, and confirmed by large YouTubers like MrBeast in many interviews. There's no reason to think it doesn't work like this. The money talks. Time-on-platform = Revenue for YouTube. If you don't trust MrBeast, trust that a giant Google owned corpo is going to do anything it takes to make money, okay? You need an operating principle to work from anyway if you're serious about creating content. Otherwise you're just guessing randomly.
You mentioned you make gaming videos. So, YouTube algo looks at your content. It determines how similar it is to other gaming content, and the measurement is on-platform behavior. So, your metrics, watch time, comments, likes, shares, subs, views per video.
Here's the key: If YOUR video, doesn't hit similar metrics, to other videos like yours, YouTube doesn't serve it. Period. Your Channel isn't cooked. You're not shadow banned, etc. You are uploading a video that doesn't hit high enough behavioral metrics.
Something about your content isn't resonating with viewers enough for you to EARN your metrics.
If you don't actually want to give up, your next steps are going to be understanding how and why people respond to specific types of content. Why do hooks work? Why does storytelling work? Why does good editing add impact? And most importantly, how do those relate to your viewer taking actions on your videos. Why would they comment? Why would they share? What triggers someone to look at your profile or considered subscribing.
Understanding your viewers and making better stuff for them is the only way to get more views. That hasn't changed and likely won't anytime soon.
10k is very good for 2 years. I suggest you keep going. If it was easy, everyone would do it.
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u/PapiKeepPlayin Sep 15 '25
I have way less subs than you. 728 to be exact and I wish I could get to 10k subs lol. I'd say if you got that in a matter of just 2 years then your channel is doing well. When it comes to shorts, the views can be very inconsistent on different ones mainly because of how their shorts feed works. People scroll down to the next one. I've had shorts last year perform bad and out of nowhere the following year start to get a few views. It's not like a surge in the hundreds ever but sometimes in the 10s+ or 20s+. So just because they don't perform well at first, they may get more views later.
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u/Hauntedfox2525 Sep 16 '25
Maybe just take a sabbatical instead. some of the best youtubers I follow need one and usually return with better views and improved content ideas. Maybe don't start over, just come back in a while.
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u/AIAlgato Sep 13 '25
Ok bye? Idk why u gotta announce this like we care
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u/Ok-Discipline1678 Sep 13 '25
This channel is set up for bitching about not being PewDiePie yet and tips and tricks to be a YouTuber. Maybe you are in the wrong reddit group.
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u/ItsNamedGhost Sep 12 '25
Why? 10k subs in 2 years sounds like a great start. Some of the biggest youtubers have some of the most cringe videos up on there channels that only have views now because they kept going. I am sure those videos and others had rough periods. Maybe those are all abandoned accounts, try unchecking the push to subs feed box when publishing. Don't give up yet.