This new algorithm is crazy

So i've seen here that since Dec 2025, there's been a change in the algorithm, it's for the worse though for most people, does youtube even care?

Shorts used to take utmost an hour to get into the algorithm but now it takes forever, sometimes the views catch up, but still, i've had a channel thrive from this, and another go waay down due to this. It's crazy. It gets harder and harder for the little guys.

Quite sad