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If you follow me you maybe know that I started my live streamer’s journey at the begining of this year. At first I just did live coding sessions called “Rock. Code. (N)VIM.” on Twitch.. After a while I started to publish the sessions to YouTube. Since I mostly stream weekly my views count grew week to week until October, 14 when it fall down rapidly. 👇

Views growing week to week

What happened?

At this time I switched from publishing videos from Twitch to YouTube to streaming to both Twitch and YouTube at once. During setting up YouTube livestream configuration I decided that I do and tell nothing bad so they are good for children. I thought if I put “yes” for “video for kids” it will make video’s audience wider. As a result for the next month I had less than 10 daily viewers, sometimes even 0. I start to think it was a shadowban.

On the Nov, 16 I’ve uploaded my first shorts video and shared it on my X (Twitter). I’ve got a couple of positive responses there but only 2 views. This was too strange and made me investigate. What I discovered that YouTube show my video only to 12 potential viewers. Seems too small to make it popular.

Viewers aware of video

I was shocked. Not sure why but I decided to change the “video for kids” to “no”. The results was and still is amazing. You can see them in the top post image. 👆

I changed this setting for my livestream and live recordings. My channel was reborn. That’s awesome.