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October 23, 2026 2.6x the channel's usual pace The whole channel ran that day at 3,189,249 views a day, 2.6 times a normal day (1,210,995).

This week on the channel +8.2M views this week

Can a president cancel an election? WIRED asks a historian

Lindsay Chervinsky explains the limits of presidential power, the origins of Election Tuesday and what happens without an Electoral College…

Channel: WIRED · Story of October 22, 2026

This week on the channel +8.6M views this week

History slop gets a historian's attention on WIRED

Lindsay Chervinsky's fact check joins Bollywood questions and a seven-person Abbott Elementary cast interview.

Channel: WIRED · Story of October 15, 2026

This week on the channel 5 videos this week

WIRED's pseudoscience fact check pulls hardest among five uploads

Reckless Ben's search-questions video is quietly gaining speed on its third day, while his origin story has barely been found.

Channel: WIRED · Story of September 27, 2026

The video drawing the most views now

Historian Fact Checks Witchcraft Slop

Video published

October 23, 2026

Video views so far

107,237

Video views, pace per day

155,736

Views in its first 12 hours

107,237

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

10.1% 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 Truth Behind The Witches Hat	October 23, 2026	0:49 short	13,179	31,538	13,179 (7 hours)	352	15
Historian Fact Checks Witchcraft Slop	October 23, 2026	23:50	107,237	155,736	107,237 (12 hours)	2,275	217
Skipping The Gym To Exercise My Rights 💅	October 20, 2026	0:55 short	30,776	1,272	24,884	648	42
Presidential Historian Answers US Election Questions	October 20, 2026	15:06	644,818	70,525	381,638	6,054	772
Historian Fact Checks Gilded Age Slop	October 16, 2026	30:22	323,233	9,923	160,961	4,414	258
Mr. Johnson: Abbott Elementary's Many-Faced God	October 15, 2026	0:36 short	35,617	359	20,822	545	4
‘Abbott Elementary’ Cast Answer The 50 Most Searched Questi…	October 14, 2026	13:39	612,251	20,467	127,424	8,517	172
The Real Reason Bollywood Movies Have Songs	October 14, 2026	1:24 short	37,169	260	22,779	1,534	45
Indian Film Expert Answers Bollywood Questions	October 13, 2026	24:39	199,069	2,383	73,088	3,344	543
Presidential Historian Fact Checks US History Slop	October 9, 2026	18:54	640,472	11,881	290,540	7,136	579
Pumped Diesel In Your Car Instead of Gas? Watch This	October 6, 2026	0:44 short	551,308	20,753	109,906	10,084	172
Mechanic Answers Car Questions	October 6, 2026	22:35	1,381,468	28,930	314,421	15,993	778
Biomedical Scientist Debunks The Biggest Peptide Myths on R…	October 2, 2026	19:22	553,458	1,704	282,094	8,242	734
America Used To Be Great at Taxing The Rich...	October 1, 2026	1:29 short	600,458	7,983	46,081	21,522	967
Biomedical Scientist Schools AI On Probiotics	September 29, 2026	1:20 short	38,076	53	11,897	536	29

Audience engagement

likes per 1,000 views

15.8 in the category: 19.9

comments per 1,000 views

0.9 in the category: 1.9

a video's usual first day on this channel

101,006 views

short vs long

7 short (up to 3 minutes), 8 long
average views per short video: 186,654
average views per long video: 557,750

Most watched videos (not Shorts)

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
Stranger Things Cast Answer the Web's Most Searched Questio…	November 21, 2017	7:11	70,455,663
Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard & Noah Schnapp Answer the…	July 2, 2019	10:02	69,483,931
Former FBI Agent Explains How to Read Body Language | Trade…	May 21, 2019	14:44	56,925,873
Ryan Reynolds & Jake Gyllenhaal Answer the Web's Most Searc…	March 22, 2017	6:12	51,549,055
Dr. Ken Jeong Answers Medical Questions From Twitter | Tech…	March 23, 2017	6:21	43,290,286

Most watched Shorts

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
Who Are Elmo's Parents?	May 15, 2023	0:27	39,163,975
Jennifer Lawrence Explains How Good She Is at Archery	December 12, 2022	0:50	37,404,036
What Did Medieval English Sound Like?	June 21, 2024	0:42	24,084,697
Is Priyanka Chopra Jonas Vegan?	May 10, 2023	0:32	21,690,139
Which Cobra Kai Cast Member Has the Best Kick?	November 9, 2022	0:17	17,884,057

What happened on the channel in the last 30 days

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

1. October 23, 2026Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 3,189,249 views a day, 2.6 times a normal day (1,210,995).
2. October 15, 2026MilestoneMechanic Answers Car Questions The video passed 1,000,000 views.
3. October 11, 2026Video surgingAmerica Used To Be Great at Taxing The Rich... The video ran that day at 57,796 views a day, 2.6 times its usual pace (22,391).
4. October 7, 2026Video taking offMechanic Answers Car Questions The video opened at a pace of 281,542 views a day, 3.6 times a normal first day on this channel (79,188).
5. October 5, 2026MilestonePsychiatrist Debunks The Biggest Psychopath Myths… The video passed 1,000,000 views.
6. October 3, 2026Video taking offBiomedical Scientist Debunks The Biggest Peptide … The video opened at a pace of 315,060 views a day, 7.3 times a normal first day on this channel (43,304).
7. September 30, 2026MilestoneReckless Ben Answers The Web's Most Searched Ques… The video passed 1,000,000 views.
8. September 28, 2026MilestoneBiomedical Scientist Fact Checks Pseudoscience Sl… The video passed 1,000,000 views.