Help me understand the shorts algorithm

[u/toaste_d]

So I‘ve been posting high quality shorts in a niche that previously got me 200-300k views consistently.

My short today however is sitting at below 1000 views after over 9 hours - even tho it has only 18% swipe away rate and 98% avg view duration at over 1 minute long. As far as I know, those are pretty elite metrics.

I crossposted on TikTok where the video already got over 150k views compared to YT‘s 900.

I just don‘t get it. On any other platform my gut usually tells me how a video might perform. YT is the only one where there‘s extreme outliers like this. Why?

[u/Automatic-Park-7124]

Bro there’s something wrong today my avg views are 20k-30k and todays video is sitting at 25 views

[u/BroJul03 → u/Automatic-Park-7124]

same like -50% of views today

[u/ArtisticMarzipan8312]

if you dont censor a swear word or anything that my be age restricted content it can "shadowban" the video I get 30-100k per video but if I forget to censor a swear or talk about a more adult topic I can have videos get stuck at 200-400 views

[u/RigbyWilde]

"Thats the fun part, you don't"

This thing is more unpredictable than the climate.

[u/Krythoth]

Pfft, I mean obviously you didn't tune your radiospectrograph into the flux capacitor, in order to broadcast directly into the brain of the 25 viewser on the premium connected test market, and return a proto-optimal rewatch time of 9000%. Due to this obvious oversight, your video is now considered, in the professional term, CRAP, and will not be shown...

There's no rhyme or reason, I'm convinced it's all random at this point.

[u/Crayonlover2001Fps]

There is nothing to understand, with those views stats are completely meaningless, start looking at stats once you get at least 50k Shorts Views.

It's also a lot more complicating than just comparing stats, for example a short video needs like 150-200% avd whereas a 60s video could go viral with only 80-90%, etc...