YouTube Reach Dropping for Gaming Content – Anyone Else Seeing This in 2026?

Been uploading a few gameplay videos again recently (mostly FPS stuff and some open-world), and something feels off compared to how it used to be. Like, a video will start picking up a bit, then just completely stop getting any traction after that. No gradual drop, just dead. I even tried changing up the style a bit — shorter videos, getting straight into gameplay instead of slow intros, that kind of thing — but doesn’t seem to change much. Short clips are even more random. One will do... Read more