<b>Niche drift resets your audience model</b>

<b>Niche drift resets your audience model</b>
Heard this Tuesday: creators are reporting that a single off-topic upload doesn't just underperform — it pollutes the audience model so the <i>next</i> on-topic video gets shown to the wrong people. Word is the system over-weights your most recent uploads when deciding who you're for.
What this means for you:
— that 'fun experiment' video has a cost paid by the upload after it
— if you must post off-niche, do it on a schedule the algorithm can't read as a pivot, or use a second channel
— recovery takes two-to-three on-topic videos, not one
Confidence: medium. Recency-weighting is well-documented; the multi-video recovery cost is anecdotal.