This week on the channel

A Blink doorbell, unboxed with a subscriber, keeps Hobby Explorer ringing

The hundred-day-old unboxing has passed 199,000 views, and a dumbbell buying guide with a recall warning sits close behind.

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Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Doorbell Unboxing Chaos

What does a strength coach's channel lean on when nothing new goes up? On Hobby Explorer, oddly, a doorbell.

The man behind the channel says he quit a tech job to teach strength training to "normal looking people" like himself, and he is a certified personal trainer. Yet his busiest video right now is "Doorbell Unboxing Chaos," posted a hundred days ago, in which he opens an Amazon Blink camera doorbell with a fellow subscriber. The tags place it in his Bay Area home and in the Tamil-speaking community he talks to across the USA, Canada and Chennai. It has passed 199,000 views and still adds a few hundred a day.

The gym side is right behind. "Adjustable Dumbbells" is a short buying guide for anyone whose weights have started to feel light from progressive overload. He names the Nuobell set he uses, mentions REP and IronMaster, and points out that Bowflex was previously recalled. Third comes a call for guests for the Hobby Explorer Podcast, open to anyone with a journey, career or hobby worth telling.

No uploads went up over the seven days, and the channel ran a touch above its usual daily pace anyway. Among the podcast channels nearest its size it is fourth by subscribers, at 1.1 million. The loud week in that group belonged to Stiff Socks Podcast, while Club 520 Podcast also ran well above its norm.

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The videos drawing views on Hobby Explorer right now

Adjustable Dumbbells51,330 views

Hobby's Podcast Guest46,188 views

The facts

Channel: Hobby Explorer
Subscribers: 1,100,000
Videos published this week: 0

The numbers

Here is how Hobby Explorer's week looks in figures.

subscribers

1,100,000

total views

597,120,366

views per day

96,168

typical day: 92,187

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

ALL THE SMOKE

1,350,000

Stiff Socks Podcast

1,170,000

1,150,000

1,100,000

1,100,000

1,010,000

1,000,000

928,000

891,000

As of October 4, 2026 · 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.

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