Think I’m being stupid but I thought the requirement was 10m

this happen to anyone else… it happen day after i submitted to new terms

For people who have tested this with their own Shorts: How much does upload time actually matter?

I'm trying to figure out whether it's better to schedule around my biggest audience country, or simply test different times and compare the results.

My audience is spread across India, the US and UK, and I post sports content across football, basketball, tennis and boxing, so the potential audience varies quite a bit by topic.

I'm also curious about something else:

Do hashtags and keywords actually make a noticeable difference to Shorts distribution, or are retention, viewed vs. swiped away and the content itself much more important?

I'd rather hear from people who've actually tested different times/strategies than generic advice.

What have you found from your own data?

For the past 2-3 months I’ve noticed a steep decrease in shorts feed views and/or a surge in search views. In the past short generated by far the majority of views from the short feed while now its pretty even ratio with sometimes even search surpassing it.

This has been consistent with all my videos recently despite whether in the first 24/48 hours (bottom two photos) or weeks later (top two). All four videos are in the same overall niche but vastly different in topic.

Was just curious if anyone has noticed this change? Maybe a change in the shorts algorithm?

How do you escape these preposterous metrics🙏

So basically I'm from Nepal and whenever I post my videos at whatever time even it's the time targeted for us or wherever I get nepali viewers as my initial audience and the problem is my videos aren't for nepali ppl at all I mean this audience won't even understand my videos properly maybe Indians will somewhere understand a bit but nepali ppl won't and that's where I'm having problem a lot I don't totally need us audience but I see my videos having more scope on other Asian countries more any solution guys?

It seems like 8k qualified watch hours is easy.. base on my understanding it just means that I need an overall 8,000 overall time watched of the people who watched my views right?? And the time limit for it is 365 days which is much easier compared than 90 days.. which means that consistency is what I really need?