u/Conscious-Sink-1413

I’ve been posting daily for 28 days now, and the numbers are acting very strangely. I feel like I have 7 days of "freedom" in the Shorts feed and then 14 days in "jail."

• Week 1 (Days 1–7): Excellent reach. My Shorts were shown to a wide audience and I was hitting 30k to 50k views consistently.
• Week 2 & 3 (Days 8–20): On day 8, the numbers suddenly tanked. I couldn't break 1k views. It kept showing my Shorts to a tiny audience for two weeks straight.
• Day 21: Suddenly, a Short went semi-viral and reached 100k views.
• Week 4 (Days 21–27): My average views returned to a healthy 30k.
• Day 28: On day 28, the exact same drop happened again. I'm struggling to even hit 100 views.

Has anyone else experienced this specific 14-day "cooldown" or "jail" period? It feels like the algorithm puts me on a leash for exactly two weeks before letting me go viral again.

i posted this short yesterday now after 17 hours it stopped gaining views at 26k. its a 22 sec short with avd of 21sec and 84.6% stayed to watch rate and 600 likes and 300 comments and i gained 300 new subs. i dont know why it just stopped.

I posted this Short about six days ago. It hit 1k views quickly but then flattened out only gaining about 10 views an hour. I eventually ignored it because the metrics seemed lackluster it's 25 seconds long with a 15-second AVD and a 58% stayed to watch rate. However I woke up today to find it hit 25k views overnight. It’s strange because I have other Shorts with much better metrics that are still stuck at 1k. Has anyone else experienced this?