u/DaikonWestern5392

I run a Shorts channel with 23k+ subscribers, and for the longest time around 35% of my audience came from the USA. But suddenly everything has shifted — now India has taken the top spot and the USA has dropped to second. Ever since that happened, my views, subscriber growth, and especially revenue have all taken a hit.

My content is completely in English, and I specifically built the channel around a US audience. The only major thing that changed recently is YouTube’s auto-dubbing feature. I’ve noticed videos I watch through this channel are being auto-dubbed, and ever since that started, the entire channel’s audience dynamics seem broken.

I genuinely don’t understand what triggered this shift or how to stop YouTube from pushing my content heavily toward Indian audiences. Has anyone else experienced this?

I run an anime Shorts channel with 20k+ subscribers. For a while, growth was pretty consistent — I usually get around 30k–40k views per Short, and I hit at least one video crossing 1M views almost every month.

But recently, something feels off.

My views are still decent (around 80k–100k daily), but subscriber growth has dropped hard. For example, I got ~90k views in a day and gained only 19 subscribers. Earlier, similar numbers would bring in way more subs.

What’s confusing is that newer channels in the same niche (doing very similar content and editing style) are:

Getting 3–5x more views

Gaining significantly more subscribers per video

And I’m not doing anything drastically different — same type of clips, pacing, hooks, edits, etc.

So I’m trying to figure out:

Is this an algorithm shift affecting older channels?

Is Shorts pushing newer creators more aggressively?

Could audience fatigue or repeat content be hurting conversion?

Or am I missing something subtle in retention / hook / payoff?

Would really appreciate insights from anyone who’s experienced something similar, especially in the anime or clip-based Shorts niche.

Thanks in advance.

I’m honestly fed up with this YouTube situation.