Video taking off 36x its usual first day
Dwarkesh Patel bets on 2030, and his first backer Tyler Cowen disagrees
On Interesting Times, the economist who helped fund Patel's podcast questions his forecasts on AI, from teamwork to consciousness.
In short
Interesting Times has 119,000 subscribers and 15,325,014 views in all, as of October 24, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 2,000 subscribers and 534,445 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "We’re Entering the New Dark Ages", with 746,929 views. By subscribers it is No. 5,212 of the 5,387 channels on Trari, and No. 161 of 164 in category "Political commentators and debate".
The numbers today
subscribers
119,000
▲ 2,000 in the last 7 days
total views
15,325,014
▲ 534,445 in the last 7 days
views a day (current pace)
33,448
on a typical day: 64,514
Videos on the channel
223
4 uploaded in the last 7 days
Last upload
yesterday
October 23, 2026
Views per subscriber
128
a new long video usually gets 153,621 views
a new short video usually gets 2,726 views
a new short video usually gets 2,726 views
Next milestone
200,000 subscribers
at the current pace: in about 284 days
What happened lately
October 22, 2026 2.8x the channel's usual pace The whole channel ran that day at 161,731 views a day, 2.8 times a normal day (58,593).
This week on the channel +398K views this week
Reading's digital future gets a medieval lens on Interesting Times
James Marriott joins guest host Mary Harrington for a conversation about literacy, memory and self-government.
The video drawing the most views now
We’re Entering the New Dark Ages
- Video published
- October 8, 2026
- Video views so far
- 746,929
- Video views, pace per day
- 28,793
- Views on its first day
- 31,778
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Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Political commentators and debate | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 5,212 of 5,387 | 161 of 164 |
| By views gained this week | 3,451 of 5,295 | 136 of 164 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 0.1% of all views the category's channels gained this week
- Subscriber growth this week
- 1.7% on this channel, 0.2% on the category's middle channel
Subscribers in the category Political commentators and debate
Views gained this week in the category Political commentators and debate
Subscribers, last 30 days
September 26, 2026: 114,000 subscribers → October 24, 2026: 119,000 subscribers
Total views, last 30 days
September 26, 2026: 13,861,269 views → October 24, 2026: 15,325,014 views · average: 52,276 views a day
The channel's latest videos
The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 11.0 in the category: 42.4
- comments per 1,000 views
- 1.8 in the category: 4.9
- a video's usual first day on this channel
- 2,524 views
- short vs long
- 10 short (up to 3 minutes), 5 long
average views per short video: 4,320
average views per long video: 220,713
What happened on the channel in the last 30 days
The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 161,731 views a day, 2.8 times a normal day (58,593).
- Video taking offTyler Cowen and Dwarkesh Patel Predict the Future… The video opened at a pace of 73,197 views a day, 36 times a normal first day on this channel (2,027).Read the story
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 157,207 views a day, 3.5 times a normal day (44,545).
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 106,142 views a day, 2.8 times a normal day (37,701).
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 135,370 views a day, 6 times a normal day (22,494).
- Video surgingWe’re Entering the New Dark Ages The video ran that day at 78,439 views a day, 2.1 times its usual pace (37,903).
Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
Stories
Video taking off 36x its usual first day
Dwarkesh Patel bets on 2030, and his first backer Tyler Cowen disagrees
On Interesting Times, the economist who helped fund Patel's podcast questions his forecasts on AI, from teamwork to consciousness.
This week on the channel +398K views this week
Reading's digital future gets a medieval lens on Interesting Times
James Marriott joins guest host Mary Harrington for a conversation about literacy, memory and self-government.
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