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IrelandThis week on the channel +833K views this week
Horses returns to Elvis through three shorter chapters
Michael Sorensen's new uploads trace prescription drug use, addiction and collapse alongside his longer Elvis essay.
In short
On YouTube, Horses has 1,610,000 subscribers and 111,717,881 views in all, as of November 14, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 833,155 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "The Slow, Hot, and Mean Death of Elvis Presley", with 819,185 views. By YouTube subscribers it is No. 1,695 of the 5,392 channels on Trari, and No. 42 of 96 in category "Explainers, history and education".
YouTube: The numbers today
subscribers
1,610,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
▲ 10,000 in the last 30 days
▲ 10,000 in the last 30 days
total views
111,717,881
▲ 833,155 in the last 7 days
▲ 3,652,751 in the last 30 days
▲ 3,652,751 in the last 30 days
views a day (current pace)
178,566
on a typical day: 131,639
Videos on the channel
170
3 uploaded in the last 7 days
Last upload
2 days ago
November 12, 2026
Views per subscriber
69
a new short video usually gets 9,731 views
Next milestone
2,000,000 subscribers
390,000 subscribers to go
YouTube: What happened lately
October 31, 2026 53x its usual first day The Slow, Hot, and Mean Death of Elvis Presley The video opened at a pace of 254,663 views a day, 53 times a normal first day on this channel (4,837). Read the story
Video taking off 53x its usual first day
Horses examines what fame couldn't give Elvis Presley
Michael Sorensen's essay connects the singer's decline to isolation and a search for purpose, drawing an unusually large opening audience.
This week on the channel +559K views this week
Horses asks whether violent entertainment reflects the culture behind it
Michael Sorensen pairs a media essay with "The Second Amendment," while "The Diamond Paradox" approaches 760,000 views.
The video drawing the most views now
The Slow, Hot, and Mean Death of Elvis Presley
- Video published
- October 30, 2026
- Video views so far
- 819,185
- Video views, pace per day
- 16,846
- Views on its first day
- 265,458
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YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Explainers, history and education | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 1,695 of 5,392 | 42 of 96 |
| By views gained this week | 2,903 of 5,236 | 44 of 96 |
| By views gained in the last 30 days | 2,932 of 5,183 | 47 of 95 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 0.4% of all views the category's channels gained this week
Subscribers in the category Explainers, history and education
Views gained this week in the category Explainers, history and education
YouTube: Subscribers, last 30 days
October 16, 2026: 1,600,000 subscribers → November 14, 2026: 1,610,000 subscribers
YouTube: Total views, last 30 days
October 16, 2026: 108,179,689 views → November 14, 2026: 111,717,881 views · average: 122,006 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Elvis Presley’s Collapse | November 12, 2026 | 1:56 short | 2,884 | 1,007 | 2,503 | 125 | 1 |
 Elvis Presley’s Drug Addiction | November 10, 2026 | 2:41 short | 5,577 | 593 | 3,306 | 227 | 15 |
 Elvis Presley’s Introduction to Drugs | November 8, 2026 | 1:38 short | 5,857 | 161 | 3,137 | 195 | 5 |
 Vladimir Nabokov’s "Lolita" | November 3, 2026 | 2:56 short | 4,588 | 23 | 2,003 | 204 | 7 |
 The Marketing of Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita | November 1, 2026 | 2:13 short | 12,067 | 25 | 7,093 | 439 | 22 |
 Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita | October 30, 2026 | 2:37 short | 8,113 | 10 | 4,421 | 246 | 20 |
 The Slow, Hot, and Mean Death of Elvis Presley | October 30, 2026 | 25:41 | 819,185 | 16,846 | 265,458 | 13,054 | 1,109 |
 Emerson’s Warning About College | October 28, 2026 | 1:47 short | 12,990 | 22 | 6,041 | 644 | 40 |
 IRA Prisoner Strikes | October 26, 2026 | 2:16 short | 9,731 | 13 | 4,942 | 669 | 10 |
 Provisional IRA vs Protestants | October 24, 2026 | 1:29 short | 6,758 | 13 | 2,716 | 292 | 15 |
 The Provisional IRA | October 22, 2026 | 1:36 short | 8,256 | 6 | 4,502 | 436 | 16 |
 Do Americans Actually Love Guns? | October 20, 2026 | 2:53 short | 12,628 | 5 | 6,993 | 507 | 100 |
 Violent Media Consumption and Violent Behavior | October 18, 2026 | 2:22 short | 18,318 | 5 | 9,270 | 689 | 79 |
 The Second Amendment | October 15, 2026 | 2:50 short | 7,844 | 10 | - | 303 | 83 |
 Giving Diamonds Personal Meaning | October 10, 2026 | 1:24 short | 10,282 | 9 | - | 547 | 8 |
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 19.7 in the category: 19.9
- comments per 1,000 views
- 1.6 in the category: 1.3
- a video's usual first day on this channel
- 4,687 views
- short vs long
- 14 short (up to 3 minutes), 1 long
average views per short video: 8,992
average views per long video: 819,185
YouTube: Most watched videos (not Shorts)
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 Marcus Aurelius: The Man Who Solved the Universe | February 18, 2023 | 14:11 | 11,103,737 |
 The Acali Raft Experiment Might Restore Your Faith in Human… | January 5, 2023 | 13:26 | 6,324,320 |
 MACHIAVELLI: Be the Wolf Among Sheep | August 30, 2023 | 23:47 | 4,369,872 |
 What is FASCISM? | August 23, 2023 | 24:08 | 3,791,364 |
 The Island of WITCHES | September 13, 2023 | 41:28 | 3,676,465 |
YouTube: Most watched Shorts
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 Technology Failed Us All #shorts | May 25, 2023 | 0:53 | 34,503 |
 The Sex Raft | August 5, 2025 | 2:47 | 32,511 |
 Ralph Waldo Emerson's Concept of Self Reliance | February 26, 2026 | 2:34 | 32,163 |
 The Fight to Keep Hope Alive | January 2, 2026 | 1:43 | 31,154 |
 Florida Is a Beautiful Mess | March 15, 2026 | 1:56 | 28,799 |
YouTube: What happened on the channel in the last 30 days
The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.
- Video taking offThe Slow, Hot, and Mean Death of Elvis Presley The video opened at a pace of 254,663 views a day, 53 times a normal first day on this channel (4,837).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 +833K views this week
Horses returns to Elvis through three shorter chapters
Michael Sorensen's new uploads trace prescription drug use, addiction and collapse alongside his longer Elvis essay.
Video taking off 53x its usual first day
Horses examines what fame couldn't give Elvis Presley
Michael Sorensen's essay connects the singer's decline to isolation and a search for purpose, drawing an unusually large opening audience.
This week on the channel +559K views this week
Horses asks whether violent entertainment reflects the culture behind it
Michael Sorensen pairs a media essay with "The Second Amendment," while "The Diamond Paradox" approaches 760,000 views.
This week on the channel 4 videos this week
Why do we want diamonds? Michael Sorensen's The Diamond Paradox finds its crowd
The essay leans on a reading list from Tim Kasser's work on materialism to Matthew Hart's history of the stone, and it arrived the same day…