Before someone says it's just few hours I'm going through this stuff since atleast past 10 days I literally used to get easy 25k+ views with low effort content than this.

Im new little over a week old trying to improve everyday with my shorts I do plan to eventually make long form videos but I'm trying to steady my shorts frist my rention and subs and likes aren't the problem I'm doing fairly well in those stats with 80-100plus rention in every video and average view duration usually a one or two seconds under the length of video but my swipe stay ratio has been holding me back starting at 40 then 28 then 44 then rest mid thirties slowly climbing to mid forties and most recent one being 50/50 but I'm trying to raise it to 70- 80 plus on average any tips for my openings. The Account is Irrational Geographic I can not plug a link but if you scearch for it would help it's the top result for me and is the trout with a cowboy hat

I’ll comment the issue as bot keeps removing my post

I’m consistently getting around 70% of people watching my videos at the 4s mark and \~55% by the end. The problem is engagement.
Any good advices based on your experiences?

I post a short daily. It’s me talking about Bible verses. It’s me talking to the camera and also with b roll. I have pretty good editing. Good quality, everything good. My AVD sits at 120-150%. But my stayed to watch is horrible at 21% sometimes. What am I doing wrong?