Video performance getting worse with every upload
I've been making relatively good videos for 3 years now, and we've never skimped on our longform videos (I'd say the videos started getting good around the Kirbo Gmod video). The channel is run by 3 people, me and my 2 friends. We mainly focus on making good-looking thumbnails (in our opinion), and editing whole videos. There were times where our videos popped off, but most never hit the 1k mark, which is probably why the channel's been stuck on the 3-digit sub count for more than 5 years. Recently, we came back after a 2 month break following our biggest video ever, which was a 3-year project that never really had any potential for views, but ever since then, our videos started to perform worse and worse. I'd say it started with the Suitborn Roblox video that was uploaded around the time when it was a trending game, and got worse when the Repo video got released. But currently the worst offender is our Bite by Night video, a trending game on Roblox. The video's performance has hit an all-time low for our channel, ranking 10th overall in the first 8 hours (previously that rank belonged to the Repo video). The impressions are incredibly low despite the trending content and the good(?) thumbnail, as well as the high retention (for my channel). Something tells me it has something to do with the abundance of content featuring this game right now, but I really need somebody's advice because I'm not sure how much longer we can keep going with this, especially with the amount of effort we put into these videos.
Channel name - GoonGoesLit