u/HazzoHaze

I’m curious if anyone here has experienced something similar with YouTube Shorts after getting reaccepted into the YouTube Partner Program.
A few months ago, my channel got removed from YPP for “reused content.” I stopped uploading for around 3 months, worked on the channel, reapplied, and eventually got accepted back into the program.
But ever since getting reaccepted, my Shorts performance has changed dramatically.
Before the removal, I had multiple viral Shorts and one of them exploded to over 400 million views. Even months later, it was still pulling huge daily traffic consistently.
Then something strange happened:
Almost exactly when I uploaded my first new Short after being reaccepted, the traffic on that 400M Short suddenly started dropping hard. At the same time, my new uploads also massively underperformed compared to before.
It feels like:
the channel lost trust with the Shorts algorithm,
or YouTube changed how it distributes my content after the YPP reacceptance,
or maybe the algorithm re-evaluates channels after reused content violations.
What confuses me most is the timing. The decline of the old viral Short happened almost simultaneously with the upload of the new Short after monetization came back.
A few things I noticed:
Shorts Feed reach seems much weaker now,
new uploads die much faster,
impressions are lower,
and the velocity I used to get in the first hours is basically gone.
I know correlation doesn’t always mean causation, but the timing feels too precise to ignore.
So I wanted to ask:
Has anyone here recovered from a reused content removal and noticed changes in reach afterward?
Does YouTube internally “flag” channels for a while even after reacceptance?
Can posting again somehow affect the momentum of an older viral Short?
Or is this just normal Shorts lifecycle timing and I’m overthinking it?
Would really like to hear experiences from people who went through YPP removal/reacceptance with Shorts channels specifically.