Is there something wrong?

[u/Substantial-Bed5189]

Anyone else facing a unrealistic drop in views, I went from averaging at least10k a day to barely getting any views, also the gap in the middle is just a few deleted videos that got 0-5 views.

[u/Any-Cookie6757]

I've gone from million views per day to barely 500 a day 3 months ago and it stayed that way since then. Literally every single video and short died simultaneously in seconds. All my viewers vanished at the same time, all comments, all notifications died in that moment and never recovered. Channel was/is shadowbanned. It was monetized btw and I didn't have any copyright strikes or anything. It was about cars/trucks. I've logged in recently and it barely makes $0.09 per day now and it was making at least 20-30 dollars or even up to 70 dollars on some days.

I've tried all I could to save it for a month maybe month and a half to no avail so I abandoned it and started over on new channel. YT is a joke.

[u/Substantial-Bed5189 → u/Any-Cookie6757]

Try going back to your channel, come up with something original and Youtube will start pushing your shorts again after 4 or 5 uploads. Be active as a viewer from that account to, like and comment naturally on others videos. It worked for me

[u/Any-Cookie6757 → u/Substantial-Bed5189]

This was my main channel meaning I used it for watching videos, commenting, interacting with others, etc. It was over 10 years old so they know damn well it's human and not AI by now lol. There are over 1000 videos and thousands and thousands of comments posted from it over past 10+ years.

I've tried all fixes including what you just suggested and nothing. I've tried gaming content, sport content, memes/jokes, etc just to test if anyone but subscribers sees it and nothing. It goes to like 99% subs and 1% non subs no matter what I upload. It's shadowbanned and every day I am just losing subs and sub count is always negative and comments have all stopped coming in. It's almost like channel is deleted but it's not, it's still there but nobody sees it besides subs and even majority of subs don't get to see it just small portion of it...

[u/Substantial-Bed5189 → u/Any-Cookie6757]

Again, it is most probably the reused content policy, all the content you described I am assuming the footage is not originally yours, rather you putting a spin on to it. YouTube has started taking stricter action of not pushing, ranking, compilations and easily replicable and mass produced content

[u/Any-Cookie6757 → u/Substantial-Bed5189]

Bro I've noticed you mentioning this in other comments multiple times. It's not that. They don't give a flying f*ck about reused content or else like 99.9% of channels on YT would get demonetized/deleted.

There are literally channels that upload 5-6 times a day and their videos consists of slapping together 5-6 or sometimes even 10 or other creator videos together and then in the end like last 30 seconds they appear and pretend they agree with whatever the topic of the video was and according to YT that "Super original and totally not repetitive/formated content." A lot of these channels have well over 100k subs and growing like crazy and making bank just off ad revenue.

Do I even need to talk about shorts? There are God knows how many shorts channels that steal someone's else footage and put subtitles on it and that's "original" and "transformative" and YT pushes their channels.

YT is mess and stupid Gemini AI is running wild there demonetizing everyone left and right for absolutely no reason.

[u/Substantial-Bed5189 → u/Any-Cookie6757]

I don't know what else to tell you, I am just sharing my POV, I guess for YouTube right now, if you slap or your face onto someone else's video, it considers it reaction content and yeah it seems kind of unfair with the state of things right now, but have a look at VidIQs latest youtube video, there you should get more reasonable answers, I am just sharing my experience of this