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My video about a local zoning fight got stuck at 200 views for a month
I posted a detailed breakdown of a city council vote, but the algorithm seemed to ignore it because I didn't use trending audio or a flashy hook. It finally started getting pushed out after a local news account shared a clip, which took about 35 days total. Does the algorithm really need a bigger account to validate a topic before it spreads?
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the_william4mo ago
Look at the numbers from my own channel. I posted a dry explainer on the new county landfill fees. It got maybe 150 views in two weeks, then slowly climbed to 20k over the next month without any big account sharing it. The algorithm does test content with small groups first. If those people watch the whole video and share it, it gets a bigger push. Your video might have just needed more time to find its specific audience who cared about zoning.
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abby_morgan181mo ago
100 views in two weeks is basically nothing though. That's not the algorithm testing your content, that's just a handful of people who already follow you clicking out of habit. I've seen the same thing happen with my own videos where they slowly trickle up, but the ones that actually pop off do way better way faster. Your landfill video might have just been genuinely useful to a small group of people who kept searching for it. But that's different than the algorithm deciding to push it because it performed well. The initial test group theory makes sense on paper, but in practice it seems like the real growth comes from external shares or search traffic, not some mysterious algorithm boost.
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