The Plain Bagel puts AI-bubble talk through a valuation check

Richard Coffin's only new upload examines popular stock-market gauges and has reached about 600,000 views.

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How BAD Are Stock Valuations Really?

"How BAD Are Stock Valuations Really?" asks a more useful question than whether the market looks expensive: what are the gauges actually telling us? Richard Coffin's sole new upload takes the familiar concerns about AI and S&P 500 valuations as its starting point, then gets into the measures behind them.

The comments offer a distinctly Plain Bagel combination of finance discussion and dry comedy. Viewers pick up on the distinction between forward-looking and trailing earnings multiples, while others extend the joke about a bubble in videos about the AI bubble. One describes being pulled back from zoning out by Coffin's perfectly timed acknowledgment that everyone must be having a blast. Graphs have company here.

With about 600,000 views, the new valuation explainer is also the channel's most active video right now, drawing more than seven times the daily views of "Investment Analyst Reacts to Finance TikToks - Doomsday Doomscrolling." That September upload gives market anxiety a different treatment, reviewing finance TikToks rather than valuation gauges.

The Plain Bagel sits in a similar subscriber neighborhood to The Graham Stephan Show and BiggerPockets. Patrick Boyle has had a substantial week, adding subscribers and drawing millions of views, while The Graham Stephan Show's daily viewing is close to its usual level.

Further back in Coffin's collection, "Canada's Condo Conundrum" continues to draw viewers more than two months after publication. Its chapter list moves through population, interest rates, investors and government intervention before reaching the supply problem: another complicated financial subject given room beyond the headline.

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The videos drawing views on The Plain Bagel right now

Investment Analyst Reacts to Finance TikToks - Doomsday Doomscrolling697,547 views Canada's Condo Conundrum628,102 views

The numbers

Here is a look at The Plain Bagel's audience and the videos drawing views.

subscribers

1,220,000

total views

101,958,353

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Patrick Boyle

1,360,000

Your Rich BFF

1,290,000

BiggerPockets

1,270,000

The Graham Stephan Show

1,240,000

The Plain Bagel

1,220,000

I Will Teach You To Be Ri…

1,130,000

Kris Krohn

1,120,000

Ben Mallah

1,110,000

Marko - WhiteBoard Finance

1,030,000

As of October 14, 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.