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Childhood friends, a month away: 'a film about friendship' keeps Simon Kim company

Simon's longest project, built over most of a year around the friends he grew up with, is past 288,000 views and still finding people at 479 days old.

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Simon Kim Story of October 8, 2026Trari Newsroom

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.

a film about friendship

Simon Kim posted nothing new over the past seven days, and among the vlog channels around his size it was the gentlest stretch of the lot: every one of them, from Monet McMichael to Kenzie Bree, gathered more views. His channel ran a little under its usual pace, with subscribers holding at 410,000.

What kept it moving is the video he once called the most important he had ever made. "a film about friendship" follows a tradition: every three years, Simon and his childhood friends, the ones he saw daily from elementary school through high school, take a month away together for an adventure. The description admits he made it for nobody but those guys, and hopes it nudges viewers to call their own friends from home. Well over a year after it went up, it still draws more daily viewers than anything else on the channel.

Behind it sits "5 years as a full time artist.", a reflection from late September, and an older outdoors piece: "30 Miles in Big Bend National Park | Outer Mountain Loop", his solo backpacking trip through the Texas desert, still quietly picked up by hikers nearly three years on. For a channel whose about line reads "i hope this makes you feel something," it is fitting that the film carrying the week is the one about the people he grew up with.

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The videos drawing views on Simon Kim right now

5 years as a full time artist.19,070 views

30 Miles in Big Bend National Park | Outer Mountain Loop107,910 views

The facts

Channel: Simon Kim
Subscribers: 410,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 49,251
Videos published this week: 0

The numbers

Here is how Simon Kim's channel moved over the past seven days.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

3,068,188

1,674,916

972,369

597,339

201,979

100,571

81,374

81,279

49,251

subscribers

410,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

19,130,169

views per day

5,600

typical day: 7,144

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

453,000

449,000

440,000

439,000

437,000

426,000

425,000

422,000

410,000

As of October 8, 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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Big Bend National Park, where Simon hiked the Outer Mountain Loop, is in which US state?