<b>Niche drift is reportedly resetting your audience model</b>

<b>Niche drift is reportedly resetting your audience model</b>
Word is that when a channel sharply changes topic, the system effectively rebuilds its audience-matching from scratch — a source describes a 'cold restart' where your established viewers stop being reliably served your new uploads for weeks.
For a channel like yours: if you're pivoting topics, bridge it. Make 2-3 videos that connect old theme to new before going all-in, so the audience model migrates instead of resetting. A hard pivot can cost you months of accumulated targeting data.
Confidence: medium. Consistent with how creators describe pivots failing.