@Wyatt Watson I felt honoured, haha!

@Parker Wolf That does makes sense to me, however, my stats don’t support that. My retention was actually still growing well past the point that the video plateaued. YouTube had stopped showing the video to new audiences around noon my time on Nov 1, where the average view duration was at 15 seconds (the video is only 13 seconds long, so still well past the 100% view duration). Yesterday, my average view duration was still climbing and was at 17 seconds long (audience retention is still growing and currently at 119.6%). So that doesn’t quite make sense in this case…

@Parker Wolf I think I identified the issue… when looking at swipe metrics, on Oct 31, the video peaked at 74.9% of people choosing to view the video instead of swiping it away. Then on Nov 1, it dipped slightly to 73% of people choosing to watch the video instead of swiping away. Even though that metric was still amazing, and all other metrics were continuing to grow, the algorithm must’ve detected the slight dip in engagement and decided to cut off traffic to the video… It’s the only explanation that I can think of that sort of makes sense (even though holistically it doesn’t make sense looking at the larger picture)

Amazing!!! Congrats!!

@Parker Wolf Yeah that could be the case...

@Parker Wolf I think you might be right. Looking at my posting history on TikTok, my videos over 1 min have gotten more views (even with worse analytics), whereas when it comes to YouTube, those shorts have been performing much better — I have one video that’s about 13 seconds long that is still collecting views that I posted on Monday night and it’s already past 1.4K views and climbing. I wouldn’t necessarily call it viral yet, but it’s certainly performing way better than on TikTok anyway.

Nice, congrats!!!