The algorithm mirrors audience preference, not an adversary: if people click and watch, it promotes. High-impressions-but-low-views is a packaging failure, not suppression — feed YouTube clean, consistent signals.
even though we've only got 29 views, the algorithm has actually promoted our video 400 times. The problem is our video just actually isn't enticing enough to viewers.
Real outlier videos that demonstrate this principle — play any in-app.