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Four screens, one controller: Johnstone's Emerald shiny-hunting setup
His badge quest has passed 860,000 views, with traded Pokémon adding disobedience to the usual challenge.
In short
On YouTube, Johnstone has 767,000 subscribers and 153,224,850 views in all, as of November 11, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 473,932 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "I Caught a Shiny Before Each Badge (Pokemon Emerald)", with 972,024 views. By YouTube subscribers it is No. 2,742 of the 5,393 channels on Trari, and No. 19 of 68 in category "Strategy, simulation and role-playing games".
YouTube: The numbers today
subscribers
767,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
▲ 2,000 in the last 30 days
▲ 2,000 in the last 30 days
total views
153,224,850
▲ 473,932 in the last 7 days
▲ 2,354,310 in the last 30 days
▲ 2,354,310 in the last 30 days
views a day (current pace)
26,657
on a typical day: 80,422
Videos on the channel
124
1 uploaded in the last 30 days
Last upload
16 days ago
October 26, 2026
Views per subscriber
199
a new long video usually gets 1,978,327 views
Next milestone
1,000,000 subscribers
233,000 subscribers to go
YouTube: What happened lately
October 28, 2026 14x the channel's usual pace The whole channel ran that day at 517,440 views a day, 14 times a normal day (37,734). Read the story
Views jump 14x the channel's usual pace
Johnstone makes every Pokémon Emerald badge wait for a shiny
His return to an older Pokémon adventure arrives alongside a sharp channel-wide jump to more than half a million daily views.
This week on the channel +327K views this week
Every shiny before each rank: Johnstone's three-hour Legends Z-A quest, dedicated to his mom
The two-month-old Pokémon Legends: Z-A video has passed 1.7 million views, and it carries the channel through a week without new uploads.
The video drawing the most views now
I Caught a Shiny Before Each Badge (Pokemon Emerald)
- Video published
- October 26, 2026
- Video views so far
- 972,024
- Video views, pace per day
- 13,954
- Views on its first day
- 378,294
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YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Strategy, simulation and role-playing games | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 2,742 of 5,393 | 19 of 68 |
| By views gained this week | 3,443 of 5,274 | 32 of 68 |
| By views gained in the last 30 days | 3,289 of 5,043 | 27 of 68 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 0.8% of all views the category's channels gained this week
Subscribers in the category Strategy, simulation and role-playing games
Views gained this week in the category Strategy, simulation and role-playing games
YouTube: Subscribers, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 765,000 subscribers → November 11, 2026: 767,000 subscribers
YouTube: Total views, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 150,887,839 views → November 11, 2026: 153,224,850 views · average: 80,586 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 I Caught a Shiny Before Each Badge (Pokemon Emerald) | October 26, 2026 | 1:11:14 | 972,024 | 13,954 | 378,294 | 20,382 | 799 |
 I Caught Every Shiny Pokemon Before Each Rank (Legends ZA) | August 7, 2026 | 3:08:07 | 1,978,327 | 5,697 | - | 38,104 | 2,271 |
 I Caught Every Kanto Pokemon in FireRed/LeafGreen (Switch 2) | March 4, 2026 | 29:03 | 1,101,204 | 2,073 | - | 26,238 | 1,073 |
 I Caught Every Pokemon in Pokemon Legends: Z-A | October 21, 2025 | 45:56 | 980,583 | 589 | - | 22,604 | 1,363 |
 I Caught Every Shiny Unova Pokemon | September 1, 2025 | 1:42:21 | 2,364,908 | 2,306 | - | 46,643 | 1,781 |
 I Caught 528 Pokemon Before Getting a Single Badge | July 25, 2025 | 36:16 | 949,465 | 659 | - | 23,869 | 776 |
 I Caught Every Shiny Sinnoh Pokemon | January 31, 2025 | 1:18:05 | 2,401,435 | 1,824 | - | 50,434 | 1,784 |
 I Completed Pokemon Platinum's BRUTAL Pokedex | October 25, 2024 | 58:20 | 4,181,719 | 3,688 | - | 77,301 | 2,396 |
 I Caught Every Shiny Johto Pokemon | September 7, 2024 | 56:23 | 2,762,961 | 1,401 | - | 62,852 | 1,563 |
 I Completed Pokemon Crystal's INSANE Pokedex | July 12, 2024 | 40:35 | 2,175,282 | 1,504 | - | 44,403 | 1,590 |
 I Caught a Shiny Stuck in a 20 Year Old Pokemon Event | April 19, 2024 | 12:56 | 777,540 | 440 | - | 24,840 | 682 |
 I Completed Pokemon Emerald's RIDICULOUS Pokedex | March 29, 2024 | 51:40 | 5,572,444 | 2,551 | - | 128,701 | 3,502 |
 I Speedran Catching 100 Shiny Pokemon | January 19, 2024 | 33:54 | 1,998,084 | 615 | - | 24,963 | 932 |
 I Completed the National Pokedex in Pokemon Black 2 | December 1, 2023 | 33:13 | 1,925,821 | 1,341 | - | 39,570 | 668 |
 I Gave a Shiny to Every NPC in Pokemon Legends: Arceus | October 24, 2023 | 20:58 | 1,481,827 | 713 | - | 34,313 | 1,012 |
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 21.0 in the category: 22.3
- comments per 1,000 views
- 0.7 in the category: 1.5
- short vs long
- 0 short (up to 3 minutes), 15 long
average views per long video: 2,108,241
YouTube: Most watched videos (not Shorts)
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 I Caught Every Shiny Pokemon Before Each Gym | November 11, 2022 | 1:17:46 | 14,867,615 |
| I Completed Pokemon Emerald's RIDICULOUS Pokedex | March 29, 2024 | 51:40 | 5,522,640 |
| I Completed Pokemon Platinum's BRUTAL Pokedex | October 25, 2024 | 58:20 | 4,118,395 |
 How Easily Can You Catch Every Pokemon in Scarlet/Violet? | November 23, 2022 | 33:19 | 4,094,222 |
 HOW EASILY CAN YOU CATCH EVERY POKEMON? (The Living Dex Sub… | August 14, 2022 | 52:30 | 4,074,611 |
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 517,440 views a day, 14 times a normal day (37,734).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 +759K views this week
Four screens, one controller: Johnstone's Emerald shiny-hunting setup
His badge quest has passed 860,000 views, with traded Pokémon adding disobedience to the usual challenge.
Views jump 14x the channel's usual pace
Johnstone makes every Pokémon Emerald badge wait for a shiny
His return to an older Pokémon adventure arrives alongside a sharp channel-wide jump to more than half a million daily views.
This week on the channel +327K views this week
Every shiny before each rank: Johnstone's three-hour Legends Z-A quest, dedicated to his mom
The two-month-old Pokémon Legends: Z-A video has passed 1.7 million views, and it carries the channel through a week without new uploads.