What is a shadowban?
A shadowban (or "soft penalty") occurs when YouTube reduces the distribution of your content without explicitly notifying you. Your videos still exist but are shown to fewer people in search results and suggested videos.
What the tool checks
- Search visibility for your channel name and video titles
- Anomalous drops in impressions relative to subscriber count
- Community guidelines strike history patterns
- Metadata quality score (flags that may trigger reduced distribution)
Common causes of suppression
- Clickbait titles that don't match video content
- Misleading metadata or overly broad tags
- High dislike ratio or low audience satisfaction signals
- Violation-adjacent content (not removed but de-ranked)
