Large growth than YouTube showing to wrong audience

Anyone else having a similar issue or is this common as you grow on YouTube? About 10 days ago I had my first short pass 30k views, actually ended at about 70k. Then the rest of the week all my shorts hit at least 30k (was posting daily) with one getting to 120k.

I figured the main difference was I got my swipe rate above 70% with some getting up to 78% stay and all of them around 100% avd. I thought I had finally cracked the code. I also went from under 1000 subs to over 3000 in a week

Now my last 3 days of shorts with a very similar hook are around 50% swipe and they start extremely low for the first 1000 views(like under 40%). It seems like YouTube is showing it to a completely different audience. They end up improving to around 60+% by the time they reach 2000 views but the short is pretty much dead by that point.

Anyone else deal with this?

In case anyone is wondering my content is original