1. Did you delete and reupload a video? I think that if you delete a video you will also lose the views of your channel, not immediately but in a couple of days. Maybe you tried to make your video more viral by reuploading it thinking it will get more attention
No. My editor did do a rough job on one video and had her redo it. #41 if you want to go and see. But I didn't delete that video but simply changed its title to indicate it was an "old rough version" and took it out of the playlist. It was still kept public. Never removed and put back in. Besides, the old version has only 41 views and the new revised one has 49 views.
2. You accidentally paid a "company" to get more views or something like that [I received an email of companies like this] or maybe you or someone wants to help you and is using a bot to get views/subs
I have hired a small-part-time social media manager (she's given public credit in the endcappers since Video #48 after the editor's credit) but I doubt it was her. She worked for me for over a month before this spike in subs and views happened on the video. But for that video (it is one in which I won a tournament and got the spike in views and during its 24-hour reign got a spike in subscribers), I told her about it being in the pipeline and when the editor releases it, I wanted her to promote the H*ll out of it. As the pipeline takes a week for a video to go from being recorded to edited to release, we brainstormed on what she was going to do to promote it. I also hired SEO and SMM help from Fiverr and SEO Clerks to help promote that video. A common sentence some of them used was "This is how you WIN a poker tournament!" Add "Jack Decker" to that and google it. You'll see some of the work my social media manager and the others did. Others used variations of that sentence. Could some of them had also bought more subs and views? Sure, BUT why? I seriously wasn't paying them much. Now all of them did came back later and wanted me to hire them again and many pointed to how my channel grew in subs and views as proof that what they did worked, but, again, I didn't pay them much. What they did do is send me Excel docs that listed all the different social media sites where they promoted the video and the specific links to where they did.
As for a friend or some random stranger helping me, I really doubt it. And if they did, they've never acted strange in any way and/or said anything odd like, "Soooo buddy boy, how do you like all those subs you got lately?" *wink* *wink* Nothing like that.
3. Youtube just doesn't want a channel that shows bets or anything related so they are just removing the views which is also really weird.
Yeah, I read The Atlantic article on how they're going after gambling channels. Those in that article were channels that focused on slot machines and, yes, it isn't a stretch that they'll go after poker channels next. However, the ONLY poker tournaments I play in are play-money ones. You can get play-money chips for free from Poker Stars, which is where I record my videos. [Which, just FYI, I have received written permission from them to do so … which took months to get.] In fact, I've never bought even play-money chips from Poker Stars. But, as YouTube tends to use a firehose when a garden hose is only needed, yes, I could be grouped in with the cash poker channels. However, I think my appeal will win since I only play in play-money poker tournaments. That's it. Every single one of my videos is about a play-money poker tournament and it says so right in the titles, thumbnails, and descriptions.
Also, I'm not yet monetized. I haven't even applied since my watch time is still well under 240,000 minutes in a year. Its current lifetime minutes is currently 206,673 minutes.
YouTube is becoming really strict, even the YPP is a nightmare since they are reviewing EVERY channel
I know. Again, that's why I only do play-money poker tournaments.
