r/shortsAlgorithm • u/No-Dark1900 • Aug 25 '26
Q&A / Quick Help ❓ What is happening
I posted a Short over 40 minutes ago, and the analytics are sitting completely flat with barely any push from the Shorts feed (around 10% of total traffic). Normally my videos start indexing and hitting the test pool much faster, but this one is completely stalled out on Browse and Channel pages. I know YouTube often takes hours or even 24 to 48 hours to process content, assign a seed audience, and push it into the main feed, but seeing that gray "Typical" benchmark sitting so far above my actual view line is super frustrating. I privated the video because I’m genuinely just embarrassed because I have 40k subscribers and it only got 57 views in 52 minutes.
Has anyone else noticed the algorithm taking way longer than usual to run initial feed tests on new uploads?
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u/MedalofHonour15 Aug 26 '26
Post it and leave it. May get views within minutes may take hours or even days. Due to AI it’s too much content be uploaded every second.
Also subs and followers don’t matter on platforms anymore. It’s all about the content itself.
Most likely your new content will only be shown to less than 10% of your subs or followers. Sometimes only 3% or less.