So after talking with friend of mine who works in the business side of things, about the situation going on with youtube shorts distribution issue, we might have come to find out what is going on.
Youtube/Google has pushed an algorithmic update, which involes the EEAT (experience, expertise, authoriativeness, trustworthiness) and it started May 21st and rollout was completed on the 2nd; and would take 2 weeks to fully implement.
This is exactly when I and others started having countless issues with our shorts and even longform content being pushed to the algo and beyond our personal communities.
I also worry that this situation is possibly compounded beyond that with utilizing scheduling whether it be Youtube's inherent video scheduling, or third party scheduling of shorts and content.
Of course it's right now guess work, but I posted a short non-scheduled from private and my views are returning specifically on that short, to their previous levels. Meanwhile my longform I posted yesterday that was members-only first; has stalled and was 99.8% served to my audience and *not* to the broader algo. The same was with shorts prior.
So I think there's a compounded issue possibly in part to the algorithm changes... And is why
@YouTube @TeamYouTube is pretty much silent or are giving bot-responses on twitter.
I don't know if these are the reasons, but given the information we've found... It really seems to be pointing at an algorithmic shift. :/ Unfortunately, I do not have answers.