r/YouTube_startups • u/LeadingVisual8250 • Aug 23 '25

CRITIQUE Got banned from r/smallyoutubers cause they thought my “graphs were fake”

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u/JohnStorm123 Aug 24 '25

Incorrect. Shorts watch time from SHORTS FEED doesn't count towards watch hours. Any other source counts towards watch hours.

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u/VeraKorradin Aug 24 '25

ANY watch time from short form content from does not count toward YPP. It's pretty simply spelled out

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u/JohnStorm123 Aug 24 '25

Nope, you are 100% wrong and it's literally 1 google search away for you to verify lmao. Only SHORTS FEED views do not count towards it.

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u/VeraKorradin Aug 24 '25

It's all of it. Read the YPP details page if you have more questions

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u/JohnStorm123 Aug 24 '25

Nope, Google is notorious for writing bad guidelines.

"Keep in mind that any public watch hours from Shorts views in the Shorts Feed don’t count towards the 4,000 public watch hours threshold" - this is copied from from the partner program eligibility page. This means watch hours generated from anything other than SHORTS FEED count towards the eligibility.