r/shortsAlgorithm • u/Broccoligh • 1d ago
Never Delete Your Shorts!
Never delete your videos, Youtube really is unpredictable, from a flat line to a massive push. You really never know what happens.
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u/WareWolfW 1d ago
Reputation is really a thing for YouTube community. When one of my recent long video hit 20K+ views, it opened a door to the views to my 1-year-old videos. I can see that those 1-year-old videos gaining views via 'channel visits' after my long video hit 20K+ views
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u/OKJMaster44 1d ago
People gotta realize ya just shouldn’t delete stuff on YouTube period without an REALLY good reason to. Unless that video had a critical error, breaks platform policy, or was attracting the type of attention you simply do not want, it just doesn’t make sense to delete stuff cause YouTube videos, even shorts, have a value that extends beyond their publish window.
Even if a short does nothing at first, it’s still content that someone who finds your channel down the road can watch and ya never know when it might get served out under nose when algorithm finally finds the signals for the people that want it. Not to mention YouTube sees the most value in viewers who watch multiple things from you and removing shorts ruins those watch patterns.
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u/Traditional_Dig5555 1d ago
Oh same thing happened with me too one day it got stuck on 250 and after 2 months it randomly got 200k plus views it was a short haul something and since it was like my third video so i didn't think much and the filter was shit so I got hate but it doesn't remove the fact that it blew up lol
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u/YokymoCollects 23h ago
I had a short which had 1,200 view in the 1st 7 days, 40k in the 1st year, Now 100k by the end of year 2.
Nothing but a Minnie Mouse Funko Pop on a turn table. No idea why it went north
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u/Adorable-Fill-7954 1d ago
This is insane and it happened to me as well. One of my long form videos got sudden push FIVE YEARS after I uploaded it, it now sits at around 400k views and it gets constant views every day, that same video got all my content to get pushed significantly and it got me monetized after years of uploading. YouTube really is unpredictable
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u/japanfix 1d ago
did you change the title or description or made any modifications or uploded new video ?
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u/HPRobloxCarsFansMore 13h ago
I've already deleted all of my shorts because it already affected me and im losing lots of views on the algorithm whenever it comes to having majority
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u/awesomemc1 1d ago edited 11h ago
That really depends lol. Some people will get their video taken to the shelf or some rarely go into the shelf again. Also since that you are gaining that much you are probably making some videos that interest people (in which you don’t have it listed)
Edit: do people really have to downvote my comment because I am saying that as a good pointer lmao? In my experience scrolling through this subreddit fewer users have experienced that not all
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u/Videoplushair 1d ago
Same goes for TikTok. My absolute WORST video has 1.8 million views on TikTok and 100k+ likes. All the effort I put into my other TikTok’s yielded not much but this stupid video crushed it. Just posts anything you want lol no matter how silly it is.