I have channels with 40k+ subscribers and 70k+. Both channels can't rank anymore to a specific niche/keywords while my competitors with a dummy channels can beat my videos with less likes, shares, comments, and views.
The legit views I did came from playlist, annotations, cards, featured content, & channel trailers. Basically I have multiple channels on YouTube, I can divert all the traffic to one specific video which can gain up to 20k views per day.
Even with this view method my videos can't rank. I can't even see my videos on fourth or fifth page of YouTube. All my videos aren't spam and they are all unique created by me.
Really weird. Something is up.