Why do some creators seem to have all the luck?

[wjsw665]

I've been super into this huge YouTube Shorts channel with like 2 million subs. This dude was doing long-form stuff for three months before switching to Shorts, and his growth is insane. His first Short got over 9k views, and it's been killing it ever since. He's had a few videos go viral with hundreds of millions of views too.
He's never had one of those YouTuber slumps. Every single one of his Shorts gets between 6k and 10k views, sometimes even millions. So, I decided to copy his strategy.
I totally ripped off his posting schedule, titles, keywords, and even found the original sources of his content. I made similar videos based on his stuff. Within 10 days, I got 120 subs and 90k views.
But after like two weeks, my channel started tanking. The recommended views dropped off a cliff. Now, even though I'm posting 10 Shorts a day, I'm lucky if YouTube promotes one every two days. And the views are super low, like 200-300.
I've read tons of stuff about getting rate-limited or YouTube algorithm changes, and that sounds legit. But when I checked my competitor's channel, they're totally fine. They're still just reposting videos without changing anything, and they're still getting a ton of views. I'm so confused.
So, it can't just be a YouTube algorithm thing or me getting rate-limited. There must be something wrong with my account. Could it be my location, IP address, or something else I'm missing? It's super frustrating because my competitor has 2.9 million subs and 1.3 billion monthly views. They were even in the top 10 most viewed channels in the US for July. I have no idea what's going on.
Can someone please help me figure this out?

 

[gorevciyiz]

He does some random algorithm things according to his head. This is because the algorithm should not be exposed. There is also artificial intelligence in the algorithm.

 

[olivier]

@wjsw665

DM me the channel, I will take a look.
I have some contacts with people who have years of experience with YT and they make 6-7 channels out of 10 successful.

 

[wjsw665]

@wjsw665

DM me the channel, I will take a look.
I have some contacts with people who have years of experience with YT and they make 6-7 channels out of 10 successful.

Okay, thank you, can you take the initiative to send me a conversation? My native language is not English and I am not very good at using the forum. Thank you.

 

[RoadTo1Million]

You're copying him? Maybe your content isn't good enough?
You said you are not a native speaker. Do you use AI voice over? Do you have a good accent? Are your edits as good as your competitor's?
There are a lot of factors playing role here. We can't know the exact reason without seeing your and your competitor's channels.
Also isn't 10 shorts a day too much?

 

[MoonStarz]

is pure luck, some people will have it immediately so easy and other will have to fight so hard, I was there, tried to make my youtube journey and did not work, I worked for some friends in their journey and they are doing fine I just give up and better spend my energies for them and let my journey as a hobby, is pure luck.

 

[bonzo90]

This dude was doing long-form stuff for three months

Maybe this had something to do with his luck. Did your account have long form videos with likes, shares, comments, high retention views?

 

[YoutubeScientist]

I've been super into this huge YouTube Shorts channel with like 2 million subs. This dude was doing long-form stuff for three months before switching to Shorts, and his growth is insane. His first Short got over 9k views, and it's been killing it ever since. He's had a few videos go viral with hundreds of millions of views too.
He's never had one of those YouTuber slumps. Every single one of his Shorts gets between 6k and 10k views, sometimes even millions. So, I decided to copy his strategy.
I totally ripped off his posting schedule, titles, keywords, and even found the original sources of his content. I made similar videos based on his stuff. Within 10 days, I got 120 subs and 90k views.
But after like two weeks, my channel started tanking. The recommended views dropped off a cliff. Now, even though I'm posting 10 Shorts a day, I'm lucky if YouTube promotes one every two days. And the views are super low, like 200-300.
I've read tons of stuff about getting rate-limited or YouTube algorithm changes, and that sounds legit. But when I checked my competitor's channel, they're totally fine. They're still just reposting videos without changing anything, and they're still getting a ton of views. I'm so confused.
So, it can't just be a YouTube algorithm thing or me getting rate-limited. There must be something wrong with my account. Could it be my location, IP address, or something else I'm missing? It's super frustrating because my competitor has 2.9 million subs and 1.3 billion monthly views. They were even in the top 10 most viewed channels in the US for July. I have no idea what's going on.
Can someone please help me figure this out?

I have extensively researched and tested this.
I call it the "algorithm bias theory".
more information here:

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/a...nt-working-smart-its-a-waste-of-time.1626430/

 

[wjsw665]

You're copying him? Maybe your content isn't good enough?
You said you are not a native speaker. Do you use AI voice over? Do you have a good accent? Are your edits as good as your competitor's?
There are a lot of factors playing role here. We can't know the exact reason without seeing your and your competitor's channels.
Also isn't 10 shorts a day too much?

Yes, I'm plagiarizing his content. However, the content he posts himself isn't originally created by him either. He downloads videos from other apps and posts them on YouTube. Seeing what he does and that he gets high view counts, I also searched for similar videos, downloaded them, and posted them on YouTube. Both the content he posts and what I post are directly downloaded and forwarded without the need for translation or dubbing. He posts 15 such videos every day while I post 10. Initially, by posting similar videos like him, I could also get around 10,000 view counts per day. But later, the total view counts of all my newly posted shorts are only 200 - 300 per day. But his newly posted shorts' view counts remain unchanged, still ranging from 6,000 to 10,000 each. This puzzles me a lot. All problems like posting too many videos per day or the low quality of the videos resulting in no recommendations from YouTube seem very reasonable to apply to my account. But why am I restricted in traffic while he doesn't have any changes when we post similar content? This is beyond my understanding.

You're copying him? Maybe your content isn't good enough?
You said you are not a native speaker. Do you use AI voice over? Do you have a good accent? Are your edits as good as your competitor's?
There are a lot of factors playing role here. We can't know the exact reason without seeing your and your competitor's channels.
Also isn't 10 shorts a day too much?

 

[wjsw665]

Maybe this had something to do with his luck. Did your account have long form videos with likes, shares, comments, high retention views?

Maybe this had something to do with his luck. Did your account have long form videos with likes, shares, comments, high retention views?

His long videos don't have high view counts. Even now with 2.9 million followers, the view counts of his long videos are only around 1,000 each time, and he hasn't updated them for a long time. I feel that he probably didn't do well with long videos and then started concentrating on making short videos exclusively.

I've carefully analyzed the data of his short videos. What's puzzling is that after he switched to making short videos, his first short video had over 9,500 views. From then on, each of his short videos had view counts ranging from 6,000 to 10,000. About a month after he started making short videos, one of his short videos had 300 million views. Then another month passed and there were several short videos with view counts ranging from 100 to 200 million. Later on, the lowest view count of his short videos is also around 6,000. He didn't encounter those problems that we have faced, such as short videos suddenly having a view count of 0, YouTube suddenly not recommending the videos, and low recommendation volumes for non-original short videos.

He started making shorts in October last year, and up to now he has already had 2.1 billion views in total. The short videos he posts have no originality at all. They are all directly downloaded from other apps and then forwarded. At present, he has accumulated 2.1 billion views in total.

 

[wjsw665]

纯粹是运气，有些人会立即轻松获得它，而其他人则必须努力奋斗，我曾经在那里，尝试过我的 youtube 之旅，但没有成功，我为一些朋友的旅程工作，他们做得很好，我只是放弃了，更好地为他们花费我的精力，让我的旅程成为一种爱好，纯粹是运气。

Yes, through my analysis of the data of his channel, content analysis, the time when he posts articles, and the analysis of keywords, I'm 80% sure based on the final conclusion that he is just a lucky guy on YouTube. For the remaining 20%, I'm not certain. I'm wondering if he has an advantage in terms of his IP address.

 

[wjsw665]

I have extensively researched and tested this.
I call it the "algorithm bias theory".
more information here:

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/algorithm-bias-theory-further-evidence-that-you-can-blow-up-with-just-a-few-videos-grind-uploading-isnt-working-smart-its-a-waste-of-time.1626430/

Thank you. I've roughly glanced through your article and it makes a lot of sense. Or rather, this is a new approach for me after analyzing from many aspects and not being able to come up with effective methods. Thank you very much indeed.