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What happened lately

October 12, 2026 3.1x the channel's usual pace The whole channel ran that day at 737,932 views a day, 3.1 times a normal day (236,768).

This week on the channel +2.4M views this week

Boats, poetry and a post-tour reunion with vlogbrothers

John and Hank's reunion shares the week with a new question: "Is Happiness the Goal?"

Channel: vlogbrothers · Story of October 17, 2026

This week on the channel 2 videos this week

vlogbrothers' signature count outpaces 'I Want You to Know Nothing'

The newer of two uploads opened with more than two hundred thousand views on its first day and is still moving about five times faster than…

Channel: vlogbrothers · Story of September 28, 2026

The video drawing the most views now

The Best Email I Ever Got

Video published

October 23, 2026

Video views so far

82,487

Video views, pace per day

166,917

Views in its first 8 hours

82,487

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

0.4% of all views the category's channels gained this week

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
The Best Email I Ever Got	October 23, 2026	6:32	82,487	166,917	82,487 (8 hours)	3,342	294
Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis | 50 x 5…	October 20, 2026	8:34	185,056	10,596	132,094	5,023	188
Is Happiness the Goal?	October 16, 2026	5:09	260,687	2,951	133,936	7,335	496
My Lungs Are on the Outside of the Body	October 13, 2026	7:26	336,295	1,964	218,197	9,950	797
The Productivity Lie	October 9, 2026	12:44	984,971	7,832	270,945	21,160	1,234
The Test of a First Rate Intelligence	October 8, 2026	4:50	181,238	628	124,124	5,871	270
The 5 Meanest Things We've Named a Species	October 7, 2026	8:27	371,998	2,444	152,469	9,354	754
Make Your Art.	October 6, 2026	4:54	644,339	3,235	207,529	19,899	556
Why Are We So Bad at Executing People?	October 5, 2026	8:21	977,047	2,303	360,514	17,486	2,798
the most powerful attention-consuming tools in the history …	October 2, 2026	4:16	216,233	345	116,262	6,559	501
Are We Still YouTubers?	October 1, 2026	8:02	199,213	233	130,320	7,520	1,397
The Point of Life	September 30, 2026	4:51	198,028	311	117,967	8,807	522
Pretend You Don't Know This	September 29, 2026	4:57	267,427	201	158,745	10,895	1,267
Death. Taxes. Pizzamas.	September 28, 2026	4:16	190,625	127	132,692	7,760	716
Who Has Signed Their Name the Most Times?	September 25, 2026	9:23	264,880	371	150,830	6,140	538

Audience engagement

likes per 1,000 views

27.4 in the category: 27.1

comments per 1,000 views

2.3 in the category: 0.8

a video's usual first day on this channel

154,169 views

short vs long

0 short (up to 3 minutes), 15 long
average views per long video: 357,368

Most watched videos (not Shorts)

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
Giraffe Love and Other Questions ANSWERED	January 3, 2009	2:53	16,488,934
People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes	February 21, 2008	3:39	16,267,884
Top 10 Animal POWER MOVES	March 25, 2010	3:45	10,853,088
The Commercial that Killed a Fast Food Chain	October 8, 2020	3:58	8,648,713
So, I've got cancer	May 19, 2023	13:49	8,349,249

Most watched Shorts

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
Don’t tell John. Let him have this.	September 16, 2025	0:19	1,275,439
Apparently you can make a short from a video comment now!!!	September 23, 2022	1:00	501,955
Do I make things Simple??	October 20, 2023	0:41	281,922
Whatcha think???	January 12, 2023	0:15	272,899
October 4, 2024	October 5, 2024	0:23	270,847

What happened on the channel in the last 30 days

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

1. October 12, 2026Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 737,932 views a day, 3.1 times a normal day (236,768).
2. October 9, 2026Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 561,834 views a day, 3.3 times a normal day (168,220).