Four generations in Holmes County: RocaNews spends a day with the Yoders

Mike and Karen Yoder left the Amish faith, and the episode asks his mother, and his grandfather, what that choice did to the family.

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Two episodes, two Americas. RocaNews, the news company founded in 2020 by friends who wanted to cover the news "without bias or fear," spent the week far from the headlines and inside other people's lives.

The newer one, episode 192, goes to Holmes County, Ohio, home to one of the largest Amish communities in the country. Mike Yoder's whole family is Amish; he and his wife Karen left the faith. The chapters move from horse and buggy and Pennsylvania Dutch to his mother's thoughts on his leaving, a grandfather asked about AI, and darker turns: a son who went to prison, a murder, and what happens when someone breaks the rules. It drew more than 150,000 views in its first day and is now the channel's quickest mover.

Episode 191 went to Atlanta, billed as home to the most Black millionaires in the country, with stops in Cascade Heights, on Auburn Avenue with an MLK historian, at a golf course and in Buckhead. Its comment section became a seminar of its own: many viewers say the episode missed the city's historically Black colleges, several thank former mayor Maynard Jackson, and others add their own city to the list.

Behind both, "The South's Most Notorious Prison (Angola)" keeps going. Ten days old and past a million views, it centers on Archie Williams, who spent 36 years inside before his exoneration.

The daily pace sits below the channel's usual, but among the documentary and journalism channels nearest its size, RocaNews gathered the most views of the week, about four million, ahead of Channel 4 Documentaries.

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The numbers

Here is how RocaNews's week looks in numbers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

RocaNews

4,061,612

Channel 4 Documentaries

2,818,713

The Atlantic

1,787,507

Banijay History

1,279,102

Odyssey - Ancient History…

1,047,032

the fifth estate

288,803

Boy Boy

141,306

subscribers

1,150,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

198,287,712

views per day

436,864

typical day: 728,853

first-day views of each video posted this week

Inside Atlanta’s Black Millionaire Mecca

117,550

Inside an Ohio Amish Family

155,116

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Boy Boy

1,310,000

RocaNews

1,150,000

VICE Sports

1,120,000

Channel 4 Documentaries

1,110,000

Natural World Facts

1,070,000

Odyssey - Ancient History…

1,050,000

Banijay History

1,040,000

the fifth estate

1,000,000

The Atlantic

981,000

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.