Is the Video Niche related or topical? As surely you can achieve the views by just going for the long hanging fruit on Youtube? What I mean is making videos for topics that have low competition in YT search results then getting your Title, description and Keywords right from the get go, as if you cant get them to 1000+ views from this alone, then this is something to work on.
As an example, I recently tested a 11 minute video in the Pet's Niche, gave it a keyword rich title, description and video tags and made the video informative, and about a subject not many other big channels had covered (There were 2,300 competing results on YT). The channel has 1 video uploaded linked to a simple WP blog with 10 other posts that include affiliate reviews and such. The video after roughly 1 month and 6 days has 74K views and is currently sat 1st for the main Keyword and 6th for the Breed of Pet and is appearing in related videos for the big channels. And this is literally a blank channel I made to split test how people respond to different types of media in the Niche.
Most this videos success came from Watch time and CTR in YT's serp. Make videos that people stick around to watch the next part for i.e guides, how to's, unboxing, etc etc.
Get this part right and test things before trying to have videos become viral overnight, as combining the two becomes more powerful if the video already has traction organically on YT. If people come from Reddit and see a video with less than 100 views, its telling them off the bat its not share worthy and will likely just downvote it out of existence in any given subreddit unless its been made and covers a particular need or want in that community that hasn't been satisfied. This is another reason you see people linking videos on reddit to re-spike the traffic on a video a few weeks / months old.