I am facing a strange issue with my YouTube Shorts for the last 2 days.
I uploaded two public Shorts on my channel, but YouTube is not showing them to anyone at all. Even after 2+ hours, the videos stayed at only 1 view and 1 like, which were my own view and like right after uploading. My subscribers are also not seeing the Shorts.
One of the Shorts is still public and now more than 24 hours have passed, but it only has 4 views total.
When I checked YouTube Studio analytics, the traffic source shows:
- Channel pages: 100%
- Shorts feed: 0%
So it looks like YouTube never pushed this Short into the Shorts feed.
There are no copyright issues, no restrictions, and the Short is public.
Short details:
- Duration: 10 seconds
- AI generated anime nostalgia content
- Uploaded normally as public
This is confusing me because I use similar titles, hashtags, and style on my previous Shorts too, and those did get views.
Why would YouTube completely stop distributing this one? Is this a Shorts feed bug, AI content classification issue, temporary channel trust issue, or something else?
Has anyone experienced this exact problem and recovered from it?