This week on the channel +4.6M views this week
Mercury-powered electronics get Chris Boden's workshop-comedy treatment
An ignitron tube joins a boat lift, a sanding table and a Peltier box in his four-upload week.
Chris Boden has 1,790,000 subscribers and 1,186,668,625 views in all, as of October 24, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 5,206,232 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "Second Chance Silicon Booth - GrrCon 2026 #chrisboden #comedy #educational #it #helping #skills", with 2,646,677 views. By subscribers it is No. 1,550 of the 5,387 channels on Trari, and No. 51 of 87 in Science and experiments.
The numbers today
subscribers
1,790,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
1,186,668,625
▲ 5,206,232 in the last 7 days
views a day (current pace)
767,788
on a typical day: 789,633
Videos on the channel
3,486
4 uploaded in the last 7 days
Last upload
2 days ago
October 22, 2026
Views per subscriber
662
a new short video usually gets 287,393 views
Next milestone
2,000,000 subscribers
210,000 subscribers to go
What happened lately
October 22, 2026 passed 1M views Ignitron Tube #chrisboden #comedy #educational #e… The video passed 1,000,000 views.
Video surging 12x the video's usual pace
Cannon plugs and a Dishwalla nod: Chris Boden's Traffic Radar wakes up seventeen days in
The short about the boxes that watch intersections now runs about twelve times its usual daily pace, while the GrrCON booth video beside it…
This week on the channel 5 videos this week
A Second Chance Silicon Booth at GrrCON passes 1.5 million for Chris Boden
The Michigan security conference supplied two of his five shorts, alongside a retroreflector and a look at off-grid messaging over LoRa rad…
The video drawing the most views now
It Vibrates! #chrisboden #comedy #educational #engineering #tools #job #trades #steamroller #sam
- Video published
- October 22, 2026
- Video views so far
- 385,267
- Video views, pace per day
- 316,246
- Views in its first 41 hours
- 385,267
Similar channels
Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Science and experiments | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 1,550 of 5,387 | 51 of 87 |
| By views gained this week | 1,160 of 5,295 | 15 of 87 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 1.3% of all views the category's channels gained this week
Subscribers in the category Science and experiments
Views gained this week in the category Science and experiments
Subscribers, last 30 days
September 26, 2026: 1,770,000 subscribers → October 24, 2026: 1,790,000 subscribers
Total views, last 30 days
September 26, 2026: 1,161,651,253 views → October 24, 2026: 1,186,668,625 views · average: 893,477 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
- 73.5 in the category: 31.4
- comments per 1,000 views
- 2.0 in the category: 1.1
- a video's usual first day on this channel
- 168,380 views
- short vs long
- 15 short (up to 3 minutes), 0 long
average views per short video: 413,302
Most watched videos (not Shorts)
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 The Chris Boden Prison Story - It Gets Better | August 14, 2024 | 34:29 | 3,211,380 |
 Authorized Personnel Only - How to Start and Sync a 400,000… | March 18, 2021 | 7:57 | 1,489,265 |
 Authorized Personnel Only - Kickstarting A Hydroelectric Tu… | May 1, 2021 | 6:48 | 996,833 |
 How a magician pops a giant zit. | February 28, 2015 | 1:51 | 711,418 |
 Authorized Personnel Only - Hydroelectric Plant Fuse Replac… | December 12, 2019 | 14:38 | 440,860 |
Most watched Shorts
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 Fire Prevention #chrisboden #comedy #powerplant #hydropower… | February 19, 2025 | 0:53 | 32,428,899 |
 Lock Chain #comedy #engineering #construction #jobsite #chr… | December 15, 2024 | 0:42 | 24,574,324 |
 Spicy Plate #chrisboden #comedy #radioactive #physics #radi… | May 26, 2025 | 0:59 | 15,790,278 |
 Wifi Pineapple From Hell #engineering #comedy #hacking #hak… | November 20, 2024 | 0:44 | 13,497,082 |
 Medical Tools #comedy #engineering #germany #pakistan #surg… | November 19, 2024 | 0:39 | 12,665,068 |
What happened on the channel in the last 30 days
The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.
- MilestoneIgnitron Tube #chrisboden #comedy #educational #e… The video passed 1,000,000 views.
- Video surgingTraffic Radar #chrisboden #comedy #educational #c… The video ran that day at 38,452 views a day, 12 times its usual pace (3,140).Read the story
- MilestoneSecond Chance Silicon Booth - GrrCon 2026 #chris… The video passed 1,000,000 views.
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
This week on the channel +4.6M views this week
Mercury-powered electronics get Chris Boden's workshop-comedy treatment
An ignitron tube joins a boat lift, a sanding table and a Peltier box in his four-upload week.
Video surging 12x the video's usual pace
Cannon plugs and a Dishwalla nod: Chris Boden's Traffic Radar wakes up seventeen days in
The short about the boxes that watch intersections now runs about twelve times its usual daily pace, while the GrrCON booth video beside it…
This week on the channel 5 videos this week
A Second Chance Silicon Booth at GrrCON passes 1.5 million for Chris Boden
The Michigan security conference supplied two of his five shorts, alongside a retroreflector and a look at off-grid messaging over LoRa rad…
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