YouTube Question I uploaded shorts and now my long form videos are dead. What to do?

[Traveljunkiegr]

I started a youtube travel channel 3 months ago and I'm posting travel videos. I had really good growth posting long form videos almost once every week. I reached 380 subscribers.

Because I was going for a one week vacation I wasn't going to be able to post a new video. So I decided to post shorts, one every day. Eventually untill I post my new long form video I ended up posting shorts for two weeks, most of them performed badly (200-300 views) but 4 of them had more than 2000 views.

I had good traffic because I was still getting good views and subs from my long form videos and my shorts.

But suddenly youtube stopped promoting my long form videos. I'm getting zero views. I checked my analytics and noticed that my impression dropped dramatically. I believe that my shorts did huge damage to my channel

Can someone give me tips on how to jump start my long form videos? I already posted two relly good videos and I see no hope. I'm really sad because my channel was going really well and by the growth ithad I was hoping to get monetized in two months. But now I see no light.

I have attached two screeshots of my traffic before the crash and after.

 

[Traveljunkiegr]

You know exactly how I feel. I'll keep on uploading new videos and hope for the best. I'm currently doing my research if its better to make a second channel that I'll re upload my long form videos there and start all over again. And to keep my current channel for shorts

 

[jawadsoomro]

I would personally never give any attention to creating shorts. My long form videos are performing very well without even doing much effort. All I do is SEO and keyword planning. I use Google bard to get the written content for YouTube title, description, tags and hashtags. I design awesome thumbnails. I post consistently for like 7 months. I am about to complete my 4000 hours.
I had uploaded some shorts, some of them do well more than 400 views. Some of them 1000+ views. But recently my shorts aren't performing well, like 40 views. Although, the same kind of shorts use to get above 200+ views. I feel like YouTube algorithm is somehow flawed. So I wouldn't give much F's to shorts.