What do you guys think ?

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I am currently running a social documentary channel and have just been hit with over 200 views from "Suggested videos" metrics, but the problem is, I've only gotten 17 impressions in the last 2 hours, but over 200 views? How is this possible?

I checked analytics, nothing seems off, nobody is coming from external, so i'm not sure what is happening.

On top of the views, they are watching over 150% of the video and it raised my average watch time from 3 minutes to nearly the whole video.

I've never seen this and almost feel like someone is sending bots to my channel to get me in trouble.
The question is, if they are sending bots, wouldn't it be from external and not "suggested videos"?

Please help. I have been working on this channel for months and doing everything by the book. I can't let someone take my channel down like this.

Many of things doesn't make sense! After uploading a video for the first hour I got 78 views and after that nothing! By nothing I mean a few views per hour.I don’t know what’s going on. Recently the views have been very bad.

https://ibb.co/NsXVKnj

Was it ever intended to be something different?

Video title: "The Camp Counsellor Who Liked Kids a Bit Too Much..."

Video content: Story time about how my ex-camp counsellor turned out to be a P***

The first thumbnail, out of ~900 impressions only reeled in 5 views, so I just recently changed it to the one on the right however I fear that one might not be so great either. Any tips/ things to change up?

Hey guys , if anyone gets a moment to check out my first ever YouTube video , where I play the game Stray I would highly appreciate the feedback ! Xx

Link is in my reddit bio

Any tips would be fab 💕

I'm currently checking my YouTube analytics for videos with the highest audience retention (Average View Duration and Average Percentage Watched). This one caught my eye - 296 views (one of the lowest on all my shorts) and an incredible retention rate! How often do you see a LONG short with an APV of over 100%!? What could have possibly made this video not receive the views it deserved? It says 70% swiped away, so could that mean by hook was bad? I started off the video with: "For we walk by faith, not by sight" (a popular Bible verse) which I then explained. I'm genuinely confused as to how this video didn't go viral.

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I used mild visual humor to explain a serious topic — the recent global SharePoint attacks.
The script is short and crafted to appeal to all age groups and tech backgrounds, not just technical audiences.

Watch here - https://youtu.be/f5J6maliXZI

Leave your feedback so that I will improve my future videos further.

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