This week on the channel +25M views this week
Vsauce searches the archives for the actual Waco tapes
Michael Stevens traces misleading online audio clips to a television drama before finding a congressional hearing recording.
Vsauce has 25,300,000 subscribers and 7,128,593,210 views in all, as of October 24, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 26,516,371 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "Making My Perfect Pencil", with 4,606,054 views. By subscribers it is No. 50 of the 5,387 channels on Trari, and No. 3 of 87 in Science and experiments.
On the charts now
The Magic Octagon
Trophy cabinet
Trophies on the overall chart
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Medals on the category charts
2
2
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- No. 3 · The Science & learning daily chart - Shorts · October 22, 2026The Magic OctagonThe third most watched Short in Science & learning that day.
- No. 3 · The Science & learning daily chart - Shorts · October 21, 2026The Disturbing Sound The FBI Used At WacoThe third most watched Short in Science & learning that day.
- No. 1 · The Science & learning daily chart - Shorts · October 20, 2026The Disturbing Sound The FBI Used At WacoThe most watched Short in Science & learning that day.
- No. 1 · The Science & learning monthly chart - Shorts · September 2026The Ontological Status of Phenylalanine In Sugar Free SodasThe most watched Short in Science & learning that month.
The daily charts are counted since October 16, 2026.
The numbers today
subscribers
25,300,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
7,128,593,210
▲ 26,516,371 in the last 7 days
views a day (current pace)
5,007,312
on a typical day: 3,946,413
Videos on the channel
669
2 uploaded in the last 7 days
Last upload
2 days ago
October 22, 2026
Views per subscriber
281
a new short video usually gets 3,358,164 views
Next milestone
50,000,000 subscribers
24,700,000 subscribers to go
What happened lately
October 24, 2026 passed 1M views The Magic Octagon The video passed 1,000,000 views.
This week on the channel +23M views this week
"The Biggest Hug" sends Vsauce viewers back to the globe
Two new uploads pair a hug-sized title with a spooky mathematical coincidence, while audio palindromes remain busy in the catalog.
This week on the channel 2 videos this week
Vsauce's phenylalanine soda puzzle outpaces its brown sugar fix
Two sugary uploads, two days apart, and the more philosophical one is moving roughly twice as fast.
The video drawing the most views now
The Magic Octagon
- Video published
- October 22, 2026
- Video views so far
- 2,781,963
- Video views, pace per day
- 2,193,079
- Views on its first day
- 2,155,622
Similar channels
Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Science and experiments | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 50 of 5,387 | 3 of 87 |
| By views gained this week | 282 of 5,295 | 3 of 87 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 6.7% 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: 25,200,000 subscribers → October 24, 2026: 25,300,000 subscribers
Total views, last 30 days
September 26, 2026: 7,014,500,251 views → October 24, 2026: 7,128,593,210 views · average: 4,074,748 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.
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views | Per day | First day | Likes | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Magic Octagon | October 22, 2026 | 2:48 short | 2,781,963 | 2,193,079 | 2,155,622 | 211,600 | 4,371 |
| The Disturbing Sound The FBI Used At Waco | October 19, 2026 | 2:58 short | 4,435,755 | 339,339 | 2,336,163 | 278,481 | 9,939 |
 POV: I'm Your Trip Sitter | October 16, 2026 | 1:23 short | 2,257,258 | 100,275 | 912,097 | 218,827 | 7,346 |
 A Spooky Mathematical Coincidence | October 10, 2026 | 1:50 short | 2,291,909 | 22,816 | 1,209,018 | 115,799 | 1,338 |
| The Biggest Hug | October 8, 2026 | 2:53 short | 2,507,028 | 19,545 | 1,421,149 | 127,307 | 1,589 |
 Making My Perfect Pencil | October 2, 2026 | 2:04 short | 4,606,054 | 50,997 | 1,619,799 | 287,220 | 3,479 |
 The Ruler Of The Universe | September 29, 2026 | 2:32 short | 3,358,164 | 23,185 | 1,225,903 | 243,743 | 4,082 |
 How To Fix ROCK HARD Brown Sugar | September 22, 2026 | 1:01 short | 5,208,098 | 69,450 | - | 268,955 | 2,690 |
| The Ontological Status of Phenylalanine In Sugar Free Sodas | September 20, 2026 | 2:26 short | 11,359,304 | 114,941 | - | 619,080 | 8,298 |
 Who Said The First Bad Word On The Moon? | September 16, 2026 | 2:16 short | 8,932,599 | 109,758 | - | 576,550 | 5,174 |
 The Ambitrope Coin | August 27, 2026 | 1:20 short | 3,307,367 | 17,691 | - | 178,052 | 1,912 |
 Audio Palindromes | August 26, 2026 | 1:06 short | 16,155,324 | 150,952 | - | 755,428 | 7,646 |
 The Singularity Disc | August 22, 2026 | 2:10 short | 5,524,830 | 16,761 | - | 253,890 | 12,952 |
 How Many Letters Are In The Answer? | August 21, 2026 | 2:10 short | 2,690,449 | 7,520 | - | 181,778 | 3,679 |
 Some Obscure Sorrows | August 17, 2026 | 2:36 short | 2,248,562 | 8,625 | - | 219,029 | 4,419 |
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 58.4 in the category: 30.1
- comments per 1,000 views
- 1.0 in the category: 1.1
- short vs long
- 15 short (up to 3 minutes), 0 long
average views per short video: 5,177,644
Most watched videos (not Shorts)
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 The Power of Suggestion | December 20, 2017 | 28:49 | 90,190,062 |
 The Banach–Tarski Paradox | August 1, 2015 | 24:14 | 49,027,044 |
 What If Everyone JUMPED At Once? | August 19, 2012 | 7:13 | 40,410,326 |
 Is Earth Actually Flat? | December 4, 2014 | 10:31 | 38,677,342 |
 What Will We Miss? | July 28, 2013 | 9:49 | 35,894,764 |
Most watched Shorts
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 Thermite Balls | May 12, 2023 | 1:01 | 324,879,638 |
 I Built An Emordnilap Machine | December 7, 2024 | 2:24 | 100,009,149 |
 How To Make Galinstan | May 2, 2024 | 1:01 | 99,413,740 |
 the circle dot trick | April 22, 2023 | 0:47 | 98,869,825 |
 Is A 2-Sided Polygon Possible? | June 12, 2024 | 1:00 | 96,181,499 |
What happened on the channel in the last 30 days
The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.
- MilestoneThe Magic Octagon The video passed 1,000,000 views.
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 8,875,164 views a day, 2.6 times a normal day (3,408,313).
- MilestoneThe Disturbing Sound The FBI Used At Waco The video passed 1,000,000 views.
- MilestonePOV: I'm Your Trip Sitter The video passed 1,000,000 views.
- MilestoneA Spooky Mathematical Coincidence The video passed 1,000,000 views.
- Video surgingI Built A "Swing Thing" The video ran that day at 38,612 views a day, 2.3 times its usual pace (16,776).
- MilestoneThe Ontological Status of Phenylalanine In Sugar … The video passed 10,000,000 views.
- Subscriber surgeAn unusual change in the channel's numbers.
- MilestoneThe Biggest Hug The video passed 1,000,000 views.
- MilestoneMaking My Perfect Pencil The video passed 1,000,000 views.
- Video surgingOne Dimensional Balls The video ran that day at 45,043 views a day, 2.2 times its usual pace (20,898).
- Video surgingI Built A "Swing Thing" The video ran that day at 26,922 views a day, 2.5 times its usual pace (10,742).
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 +25M views this week
Vsauce searches the archives for the actual Waco tapes
Michael Stevens traces misleading online audio clips to a television drama before finding a congressional hearing recording.
This week on the channel +23M views this week
"The Biggest Hug" sends Vsauce viewers back to the globe
Two new uploads pair a hug-sized title with a spooky mathematical coincidence, while audio palindromes remain busy in the catalog.
This week on the channel 2 videos this week
Vsauce's phenylalanine soda puzzle outpaces its brown sugar fix
Two sugary uploads, two days apart, and the more philosophical one is moving roughly twice as fast.
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