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October 24, 2026 passed 1M views Why Britain Gave Up America - Sarah Paine The video passed 1,000,000 views.

This week on the channel +10M views this week

Capturing Cortés becomes Dwarkesh Patel's question for Si Sheppard

Four new uploads explore conquest, Spain's wealth and the company that challenged India's kings.

Channel: Dwarkesh Patel · Story of October 20, 2026

This week on the channel 8 videos this week

Cortés, Pizarro and three Sarah Paine wars fill Dwarkesh Patel's week

Eight uploads moved from World War I to Korea to the fall of the Aztecs, on a channel that has passed a billion views in total.

Channel: Dwarkesh Patel · Story of October 3, 2026

The video drawing the most views now

Why Britain Gave Up America - Sarah Paine

Video published

October 21, 2026

Video views so far

1,257,841

Video views, pace per day

318,560

Views on its first day

694,761

Position on Trari and in the category

The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.

The channel's share of the category

2.0% of all views the category's channels gained this week

Subscriber growth this week

0.7% on this channel, 0.2% on the category's middle channel

The channel's latest videos

The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views	Per day	First day	Likes	Comments
Why transistors stopped being flat	October 23, 2026	1:37 short	5,158	-	5,158 (5 hours)	244	7
AI’s bottleneck isn’t compute. It’s geometry.	October 22, 2026	2:20 short	197,084	179,291	154,924	5,733	163
What will computer chips look like in 2045?	October 22, 2026	1:09:01	137,190	61,943	109,535	1,931	122
Why Britain Gave Up America - Sarah Paine	October 21, 2026	1:19 short	1,257,841	318,560	694,761	29,608	1,106
Why nobody could stop World War I - Sarah Paine	October 21, 2026	1:17 short	237,909	72,976	113,541	7,686	172
What if the Vikings had colonized America? - Si Sheppard	October 20, 2026	1:13 short	292,859	14,482	207,984	8,929	427
How a US Tariff Helped Push Japan to War - Sarah Paine	October 19, 2026	1:58 short	564,794	52,959	349,179 (31 hours)	16,466	452
Why India’s Kings Lost to a Company - Si Sheppard	October 18, 2026	1:46 short	333,108	15,583	199,172	9,941	334
Why Guns Didn’t Conquer the Aztecs - Si Sheppard	October 16, 2026	1:12 short	462,774	16,234	171,350	14,256	613
How Spain Got Rich and Fell Behind - Si Sheppard	October 16, 2026	1:48 short	1,344,696	36,156	382,795	36,992	1,202
Why the Aztecs Refused to Kill Cortés - Si Sheppard	October 14, 2026	1:38 short	1,258,144	20,052	518,504	35,779	1,316
Nobody Knows Why the Plague Keeps Coming Back - Si Sheppard	October 12, 2026	1:19 short	938,749	18,059	126,341	17,379	591
The Aztec Prince Who Helped Cortés Destroy His Own Empire -…	October 11, 2026	0:53 short	295,413	3,294	131,568	7,553	340
The One Weakness That Destroyed the Aztec and Inca Empires …	October 10, 2026	1:04 short	272,156	1,342	122,506	6,590	211
Why Moctezuma’s Own People Turned on Him - Si Sheppard	October 10, 2026	1:27 short	514,325	9,613	116,197	14,006	487

Audience engagement

likes per 1,000 views

26.3 in the category: 20.2

comments per 1,000 views

0.9 in the category: 1.8

a video's usual first day on this channel

123,063 views

short vs long

14 short (up to 3 minutes), 1 long
average views per short video: 569,643
average views per long video: 137,190

Most watched videos (not Shorts)

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
Sarah Paine — The war for India (Lecture & interview)	January 16, 2025	2:13:31	6,380,116
Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fata…	October 4, 2023	2:24:33	5,349,357
Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview)	January 30, 2025	1:49:01	2,518,576
Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI wil…	February 5, 2026	2:49:46	2,516,594
Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged China's rise	October 31, 2025	1:31:24	2,182,590

Most watched Shorts

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
Hitler as a General vs Western Generals in WW2	March 1, 2024	1:00	26,487,179
The Great Leap Forward - Sarah Paine	February 8, 2025	1:42	22,850,957
Building an Elevator to Outer Space – Adam Brown	January 8, 2025	1:01	22,438,646
Identifying garbage history books — Sarah Paine	January 17, 2025	0:46	19,951,218
The caste system transformed Indian genetics - David Reich	September 27, 2024	0:48	19,512,967

What happened on the channel in the last 30 days

The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.

1. October 24, 2026MilestoneWhy Britain Gave Up America - Sarah Paine The video passed 1,000,000 views.
2. October 22, 2026Video taking offWhy Britain Gave Up America - Sarah Paine The video opened at a pace of 536,894 views a day, 3.9 times a normal first day on this channel (138,168).
3. October 20, 2026MilestoneHow Spain Got Rich and Fell Behind - Si Sheppard The video passed 1,000,000 views.
4. October 19, 2026MilestoneWhy the Aztecs Refused to Kill Cortés - Si Sheppa… The video passed 1,000,000 views.
5. October 17, 2026Video taking offHow Spain Got Rich and Fell Behind - Si Sheppard The video opened at a pace of 382,795 views a day, 3.4 times a normal first day on this channel (113,523).
6. October 15, 2026Video taking offWhy the Aztecs Refused to Kill Cortés - Si Sheppa… The video opened at a pace of 346,475 views a day, 3.3 times a normal first day on this channel (103,983).
7. October 14, 2026MilestoneThe Myth of the Helpless Aztecs and Inca - Si She… The video passed 1,000,000 views.
8. October 12, 2026MilestoneWhy nobody could stop World War I - Sarah Paine The video passed 1,000,000 views.
9. October 5, 2026MilestoneHow Conquistadors Conquered the Aztecs - Si Shepp… The video passed 1,000,000 views.
10. October 5, 2026MilestoneHow Korea Went from Civil War to Near World War -… The video passed 1,000,000 views.
11. October 4, 2026MilestoneSarah Paine — Why wars are so difficult to end The video passed 1,000,000 views.
12. October 3, 2026Video surgingYou can win every battle and still lose the war -… The video ran that day at 32,382 views a day, 3 times its usual pace (10,912).