u/Miracle_ghost_

I genuinely need help understanding what is going on with my YouTube Shorts channel because I’m honestly getting really frustrated.

I started my channel back in November 2025, and for months my Shorts were doing decent. Nothing crazy viral, but most videos would get anywhere from 100–1,000+ views, with a lot of them averaging around 300–1,000 views consistently. I was slowly gaining subscribers and momentum.

But lately, it feels like my channel completely died overnight.

Now my Shorts barely get pushed to the Shorts feed at all. Almost all the views are coming from channel pages or notifications only, and most videos struggle to even hit 50 views. It’s like YouTube just stopped testing my content entirely.

I use AI-generated visuals and ElevenLabs AI voiceovers, but the thing is… I was already doing that before and it wasn’t a problem at all. My content style hasn’t drastically changed, so I’m confused why this suddenly started happening.

I’m trying to figure out:
- Did YouTube crack down harder on AI content recently?
- Am I shadowbanned somehow?
- Is my channel “dead”?
- Or is this just a normal Shorts phase/algorithm issue?

I’ve tried re-uploading, changing hooks, posting at different times, etc., but nothing seems to fix it.

Has anyone else experienced this recently? Especially with Shorts not getting pushed into feed anymore?

I’d really appreciate any honest advice because I’ve been grinding on this channel for months and it sucks seeing everything suddenly collapse like this.

Centralia Pennsylvania — the town that’s been on fire for 63 years, was demolished by the government, and still has one resident the government gave up trying to remove
This one sits in a strange space between disaster, government overreach, and one man’s defiance that I find genuinely fascinating.
Quick background for those who don’t know it: In 1962 a coal seam caught fire beneath Centralia Pennsylvania. The exact cause is still debated — the official version is a landfill burn that ignited an exposed seam, but some locals have always disputed that account.
What isn’t disputed is what followed. Decades of failed attempts to extinguish the fire. Carbon monoxide venting through residential streets. A sinkhole opening beneath a 12-year-old boy in 1981 — he survived by grabbing a tree root. Roads cracking and collapsing. Ground temperatures that melt snow on contact in certain areas.
The government eventually condemned the town, bought out residents, and demolished almost everything. The zip code was officially discontinued in 2002.
But here’s the part I keep thinking about — one resident refused to leave. Refused the buyout. Refused the evacuation orders. Fought the government legally for years. And eventually the government stopped fighting and granted him a formal lifetime right to remain on the property.
What does it take for the US government to legally acknowledge that a person has the right to stay in a place they officially declared uninhabitable and dangerous? What was in that legal agreement exactly?
The fire is still burning. Geologists say it could burn for another 250 years. The town is essentially empty except for a few remaining structures and steam rising through cracked streets.
Has anyone here visited or know more about the legal specifics of how that lifetime agreement actually works?

Centralia Pennsylvania -the town that’s been on fire for 63 years, was demolished by the government, and still has one resident the government gave up trying to remove
This one sits in a strange space between disaster, government overreach, and one man’s defiance that I find genuinely fascinating.
Quick background for those who don’t know it: In 1962 a coal seam caught fire beneath Centralia Pennsylvania. The exact cause is still debated - the official version is a landfill burn that ignited an exposed seam, but some locals have always disputed that account.
What isn’t disputed is what followed. Decades of failed attempts to extinguish the fire. Carbon monoxide venting through residential streets. A sinkhole opening beneath a 12-year-old boy in 1981 he survived by grabbing a tree root. Roads cracking and collapsing. Ground temperatures that melt snow on contact in certain areas.
The government eventually condemned the town, bought out residents, and demolished almost everything. The zip code was officially discontinued in 2002.
But here’s the part I keep thinking about one resident refused to leave. Refused the buyout. Refused the evacuation orders. Fought the government legally for years. And eventually the government stopped fighting and granted him a formal lifetime right to remain on the property.
What does it take for the US government to legally acknowledge that a person has the right to stay in a place they officially declared uninhabitable and dangerous? What was in that legal agreement exactly?
The fire is still burning. Geologists say it could burn for another 250 years. The town is essentially empty except for a few remaining structures and steam rising through cracked streets.
Has anyone here visited or know more about the legal specifics of how that lifetime agreement actually works?