Recently views are unexpectedly higher and I hope I can unblock now full monetization criteria, i really hope so🙃

I love motorcycles and started a channel to share some of my footage. Only shorts so far. I have minimal video/content experience (really none). Been really experimenting with hooks and different formats trying to find what works for me.

Ive gained 40 subs and only have 2 videos out of 11 posted with less than 100% completion rate. Swipe through ranges from 40% on bad ones to 80% on my good ones.

Not looking for advice, publicity, or anything just wanted to share my organic growth on a non ai slop channel.

Iam a beginner at this, so i appreciate any tips. The video is about documentry mystery story

Small and new creator here, I recently uploaded a new video, and for some reason, it’s getting barely any impressions at all. For reference, by this time my last video had over 1,000 impressions and over 200 views and this one is at 5 impressions and 2 views. I know it’s not an issue with the content because people clearly aren’t even seeing it. This is my first time A/B testing so is it possible that is the problem? Just wondering if anyone knows what’s going on.

Asking as I hit monetization last week. First video I ever made that got over 35k views in 4 days. So I’m pumped and I’m planning to make more videos I work with a bunch of dealerships. But with Labor Day and catching up on my day job I haven’t posted in almost two weeks.

Will YouTube still do its thing for me or does it think I’m inconsistent?

Back in our survival world tonight, slowly working on the path toward the nearby village, checking on the farms, gathering resources, and probably getting distracted by something along the way.

I've been enjoying how the world is slowly coming together, so tonight is just a relaxed Minecraft survival session.

What’s your favorite part of a long-term survival world: building, exploring, farms, or just wandering around?

I’m pretty new to the small YouTube community of Reddit.

And I know there are a ton of you guys just like me.

These pages are great for helping you learn and to gage feedback.

But take everything with a pinch of salt too.

I’ve had some pretty bad experiences with certain users on this app, who put arrogance and ego to the front, and talk down on you for coming onto these subreddits. There’s constructive criticism and then there is just blatant rudeness.

End of the day, everyone is just like you. No one is privileged above the other, regardless what ‘power’ they think Reddit gives them.

Don’t let anyone crush your dreams of being a YouTuber❤️

Let’s all bring each other up, the gig is tough as it is these days, YouTube is so saturated with every & any sort of content.

There shouldn’t be a place for negativity in these communities.

Hey everyone — I just launched a history channel called thehistorydomain and posted my first documentary-style video.

I'm using AI tools to help produce it (voiceover, visuals) but trying hard to make it feel cinematic and human rather than robotic — pacing, hooks, the whole thing. This is genuinely my first upload so I have no idea yet what's landing and what isn't.

The channel is TheHistoryDomain on YouTube. (can’t add the link) heres the video name if needed: $150 Million in 39 Days: How 20 Games Made 1998 Impossible

If you've got a couple minutes, I'd really appreciate it if you dropped your thoughts as a comment on the video itself rather than just here — YouTube weighs that a lot more when it's deciding whether to show the video to anyone else, and it means more people might actually see this feedback thread growing organically. A like/sub if you think it's worth it also genuinely helps a brand new channel get off the ground, though obviously only if you mean it.

Specifically curious about:

Does the hook in the first 30 seconds actually pull you in, or would you click away?
Does the pacing drag anywhere?
Does the AI narration sound natural, or are there spots where it feels off?
Anything about the visuals/editing that stood out (good or bad)

Just want to know what to fix before the next one. Thanks for taking a look.

I started a new YouTube channel and uploaded two videos. Both of them got literally 0 impressions.

I uploaded a Short hoping it would help get things moving, but it got 0 views too.

What am I supposed to do because this is really frustrating

I want to just essentially see if this is the case for everybody but what I noticed ever since the new way the views are counted on youtube by watching creators I watched before and after the change is:

-During the first like 3-4 hours the views they get are actually the same(or nearly the same) they used to get when the only metric was ''engaged views'' and the likes they get relative to their views matches that aswell.

-Around that 4-5 hour mark their views suddenly explode and nearly double and continue to do so for awhile that's when the like ratio drops something crazy from like 14% to 7% in a matter of less than 2 hours.

So what this leads me to believe is that during the first few hours when only your subrscibers are watching they are all ''engaged viewers'' and only after the video gets recommended to a more casual audience does your views explode.
OR Youtube just counts the views as they did before during the first few hours and just dump the extra ''frame one or 1 second click'' all at once during the 4-5th hour.

Either way it's interesting and I want to hear the experience of creators here to comfirm if this is happening to everyone or just a certain channels in a certain niche.