I had a YouTube Shorts channel with 28K subscribers. My videos were consistently hitting 50K–100K views each.
Then I made a mistake: I posted the same video split into two parts, repeating the top half 4 times in a single Short. The last one still got 51K views — so I assumed it was fine and posted it one more time.
That's when everything collapsed. That repeated video got almost no views, so I deleted it and posted 3 completely different, original videos — and each one got only 15 views. I kept trying new content, new styles, deleted everything — nothing works. I can't break 20 views on anything now.
I went from 50K–100K views per video to basically zero overnight. 28K subscribers and the algorithm won't show my content to anyone.
Has anyone been through this and actually recovered? Is contacting YouTube Support worth it, or do they just ignore creators at this level? I'm desperate at this point.