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Glass carries the internet in Veritasium's engineering deep dive

Henry van Dyck presents the fiber-optics story, with pioneer Donald Keck and a visit to a fiber manufacturing plant.

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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.

The Insane Engineering of Fiber Optics

What would viewers like Veritasium to explain next? Under "The Absurd Engineering Behind the Internet," a particularly popular answer is already waiting: submarine cables and the amplifiers that keep signals traveling beneath the sea.

There is plenty above water first. Presented by Henry van Dyck and directed by Sulli Yost, the week's most watched new upload traces the move from capacity-limited copper lines to glass fibers. Its chapters turn an apparently simple idea, sending information with light, into a succession of stubborn problems: scattering, absorption, impurities and, finally, manufacturing glass pure enough for the job. Donald Keck, a pioneer of low-loss optical fiber, is among the experts featured, alongside a tour of Prysmian's fiber plant.

The film has reached about 5.5 million views. Viewers are connecting its long engineering effort with the everyday impatience of waiting for a page to load; others recall Veritasium's blue LED documentary, another story about making a seemingly impractical technology work.

The other new upload, "What is edge dislocation?", uses bubbles to demonstrate an atomic crystal lattice. That gives the two-upload week a pleasing change of scale: the infrastructure carrying our messages, and the tiny structural details inside materials.

Across the channel, daily viewing is substantially above its usual pace, and subscribers grew over the week. Vsauce and Cleo Abram also had substantial weekly viewing among the nearby science channels, while SmarterEveryDay had a quieter stretch.

The internet film is Veritasium's most active upload right now, but the Enigma documentary has not gone dormant. Its exploration of cipher machinery, early codebreakers and Bletchley Park is approaching 20 million views and remains the channel's next strongest daily draw.

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What viewers say

I would love to see a video about submarine cables and fiber amplifiers!!!! thx
@k.k.o.3989See it on YouTube
It's funny how we get frustrated when our internet takes a few seconds to load, without realizing that behind that connection are scientists who spent years solving a problem many believed was impossible.
@FER2000-z3vSee it on YouTube
It's crazy how it went from a theoretical/unsolvable problem, to a materials/plausible one, and finally into "just" a manufacturing/practical problem, from no one being interested to everyone racing to get there.
@Valery0p5See it on YouTube

2 more comments

32:49 Ofcourse we want a video on the amplifiers. Who wouldn't want more of veritasium?
@user.accountSee it on YouTube
Your whole documentary on who created the blue LED, how the blue LED was created, and why it was impossible to create is something that fascinates me the most. After watching that video, I thought that nothing is impossible. It just needs effort, determination, and pure love and passion for discovery, and it finally happens before our eyes.
@Dont_Search_Nuriyah_KhanSee it on YouTube

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The videos drawing views on Veritasium right now

What is edge dislocation?2,976,178 views · 2026-10-09

The Insane Real Engineering of the Nazi Enigma Machine19,479,180 views

The facts

Channel: Veritasium
Subscribers: 21,400,000 ▲ 100,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 24,612,166
Videos published this week: 2
Video published: October 12, 2026
Video views so far: 5,489,826
Views on its first day: 3,052,945

The numbers

Here is how Veritasium's uploads and audience moved over the week.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

24,612,166

23,119,091

22,380,206

7,905,430

6,930,389

2,629,569

660,109

498,040

subscribers

21,400,000

▲ 100,000 in the last 7 days

total views

4,665,647,593

views per day

5,937,008

typical day: 3,738,099

first-day views of each video posted this week

The Absurd Engineering Behind the Inter…

3,052,945

What is edge dislocation?

1,174,868

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

25,700,000

25,300,000

21,400,000

15,000,000

11,900,000

11,000,000

10,800,000

8,890,000

8,870,000

As of October 15, 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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