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IrelandThis week on the channel +624K views this week
Three books called Tradwife send frankie's shelf down a rabbit hole
A library-catalog discovery becomes a close reading of Michelle Brandon's novel, from Broadway backstory to questionable sourdough.
In short
On YouTube, frankie’s shelf has 259,000 subscribers and 23,456,489 views in all, as of November 11, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 2,000 subscribers and 658,211 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "the author of 'tradwife' doesn't know what a tradwife is...?", with 490,213 views. By YouTube subscribers it is No. 4,248 of the 5,393 channels on Trari, and No. 6 of 10 in category "Books and reading".
YouTube: The numbers today
subscribers
259,000
▲ 2,000 in the last 7 days
▲ 4,000 in the last 30 days
▲ 4,000 in the last 30 days
total views
23,456,489
▲ 658,211 in the last 7 days
▲ 1,360,693 in the last 30 days
▲ 1,360,693 in the last 30 days
views a day (current pace)
60,992
on a typical day: 65,048
Videos on the channel
79
1 uploaded in the last 7 days
Last upload
5 days ago
November 6, 2026
Views per subscriber
90
a new long video usually gets 348,753 views
Next milestone
500,000 subscribers
241,000 subscribers to go
YouTube: What happened lately
November 8, 2026 10x the channel's usual pace The whole channel ran that day at 307,686 views a day, 10 times a normal day (29,619). Read the story
Views jump 10x the channel's usual pace
frankie's shelf questions the "tradwife" in a book's title
A new review ends the upload gap as the book channel's daily views climb to more than ten times their usual level.
This week on the channel +252K views this week
Book skepticism fills frankie's shelf during an upload break
A long-form critique of a possibly AI-written book sits alongside darker reading picks in the channel's active catalog.
The video drawing the most views now
the author of 'tradwife' doesn't know what a tradwife is...?
- Video published
- November 6, 2026
- Video views so far
- 490,213
- Video views, pace per day
- 53,983
- Views on its first day
- 208,239
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YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Books and reading | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 4,248 of 5,393 | 6 of 10 |
| By views gained this week | 3,114 of 5,274 | 2 of 10 |
| By views gained in the last 30 days | 3,719 of 5,043 | 5 of 10 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 19.2% of all views the category's channels gained this week
- Subscriber growth this week
- 0.8% on this channel, 0.0% on the category's middle channel
Subscribers in the category Books and reading
Views gained this week in the category Books and reading
YouTube: Subscribers, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 255,000 subscribers → November 11, 2026: 259,000 subscribers
YouTube: Total views, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 22,121,403 views → November 11, 2026: 23,456,489 views · average: 46,037 views a day
YouTube: The channel's latest videos
The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views | Per day | First day | Likes | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 the author of 'tradwife' doesn't know what a tradwife is...? | November 6, 2026 | 2:59:08 | 490,213 | 53,983 | 208,239 | 13,549 | 2,484 |
 reading books about creeps and stalkers | September 17, 2026 | 2:42:31 | 524,571 | 3,416 | - | 12,352 | 1,388 |
 heartbreaking: this 'female rage' novel is actually misogyn… | August 5, 2026 | 1:23:05 | 520,972 | 2,894 | - | 19,856 | 1,672 |
 giving authors i hated a second chance | July 2, 2026 | 1:25:56 | 284,723 | 1,572 | - | 11,042 | 983 |
 same cover, new deranged narrator | May 17, 2026 | 1:19:07 | 337,055 | 1,494 | - | 13,392 | 1,102 |
 reading two books with the same cover | May 6, 2026 | 1:07:17 | 245,621 | 469 | - | 12,213 | 798 |
 colleen hoover's new book is awesome. i'm giddy | March 24, 2026 | 2:39:25 | 1,054,659 | 2,320 | - | 30,569 | 3,491 |
 the downward spiral of an insufferable narrator | February 22, 2026 | 1:09:16 | 335,109 | 928 | - | 13,592 | 1,245 |
 the horrors of female friendship | February 2, 2026 | 1:25:21 | 360,452 | 412 | - | 14,074 | 1,009 |
 i'm pretty sure this book is ai slop | January 19, 2026 | 2:40:23 | 2,240,208 | 3,019 | - | 64,473 | 9,263 |
 everything i read in 2025 (4,000+ books) | January 2, 2026 | 2:54:01 | 293,671 | 606 | - | 8,656 | 1,001 |
 no book has ever made me this uncomfortable | December 24, 2025 | 1:36:29 | 409,961 | 1,172 | - | 18,822 | 1,494 |
 happy holidays. here's a familial revenge story | December 14, 2025 | 1:09:33 | 201,903 | 266 | - | 10,311 | 483 |
 13 reasons why is worse than you remember | November 30, 2025 | 1:39:21 | 1,809,417 | 6,975 | - | 49,591 | 4,337 |
 reading books about weird and unsettling women | November 23, 2025 | 58:04 | 203,897 | 449 | - | 8,667 | 452 |
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 32.3 in the category: 13.7
- comments per 1,000 views
- 3.4 in the category: 0.5
- short vs long
- 0 short (up to 3 minutes), 15 long
average views per long video: 620,828
YouTube: Most watched videos (not Shorts)
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| i'm pretty sure this book is ai slop | January 19, 2026 | 2:40:23 | 2,230,648 |
 i found the worst book ever written | October 12, 2025 | 1:59:17 | 1,846,879 |
| 13 reasons why is worse than you remember | November 30, 2025 | 1:39:21 | 1,787,327 |
| colleen hoover's new book is awesome. i'm giddy | March 24, 2026 | 2:39:25 | 1,048,085 |
 jumping on the colleen hoover hate train 2 years after it l… | August 24, 2025 | 1:53:39 | 800,980 |
YouTube: What happened on the channel in the last 30 days
The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 307,686 views a day, 10 times a normal day (29,619).Read the story
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.
Stories
This week on the channel +624K views this week
Three books called Tradwife send frankie's shelf down a rabbit hole
A library-catalog discovery becomes a close reading of Michelle Brandon's novel, from Broadway backstory to questionable sourdough.
Views jump 10x the channel's usual pace
frankie's shelf questions the "tradwife" in a book's title
A new review ends the upload gap as the book channel's daily views climb to more than ten times their usual level.
This week on the channel +252K views this week
Book skepticism fills frankie's shelf during an upload break
A long-form critique of a possibly AI-written book sits alongside darker reading picks in the channel's active catalog.