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This week on the channel +463K views this week
A woodland smoker takes shape beside My Self Reliance's guest cabin
Shawn James prepares concrete footings and carries fieldstones as warm autumn weather leaves room for more outdoor work.
YouTube channel
My Self Reliance
@myselfreliance · The channel on YouTube
Website: myselfreliance.com
In short
On YouTube, My Self Reliance has 2,210,000 subscribers and 538,276,001 views in all, as of November 11, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 388,625 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "Building a Foundation for the Cabin | Autumn in the Wilderness", with 249,806 views. By YouTube subscribers it is No. 1,301 of the 5,393 channels on Trari, and No. 19 of 163 in category "Outdoors, fishing and homesteading".
YouTube: The numbers today
subscribers
2,210,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
no significant change in the last month
no significant change in the last month
total views
538,276,001
▲ 388,625 in the last 7 days
▲ 2,183,198 in the last 30 days
▲ 2,183,198 in the last 30 days
views a day (current pace)
24,580
on a typical day: 61,893
Videos on the channel
790
2 uploaded in the last 7 days
Last upload
3 days ago
November 8, 2026
Views per subscriber
243
a new long video usually gets 106,453 views
a new short video usually gets 18,700 views
a new short video usually gets 18,700 views
Next milestone
3,000,000 subscribers
790,000 subscribers to go
YouTube: What happened lately
This week on the channel +684K views this week
Black ash becomes a longbow on My Self Reliance
Shawn James pairs hand-tool bowmaking with garden shutdown, gear maintenance and duck hunting with Cali.
This week on the channel 5 videos this week
A guest cabin, a sugar shack's doors and a 52-week budget
Between the building videos, an old-fashioned apple pie came out of the off-grid kitchen, and a morning mobility routine got its own upload.
The video drawing the most views now
The Reality of Self-Reliance: November Deer Hunt
- Video published
- November 8, 2026
- Video views so far
- 67,792
- Video views, pace per day
- 8,738
- Views on its first day
- 50,310
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YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Outdoors, fishing and homesteading | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 1,301 of 5,393 | 19 of 163 |
| By views gained this week | 3,610 of 5,274 | 81 of 163 |
| By views gained in the last 30 days | 3,355 of 5,043 | 74 of 159 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 0.2% of all views the category's channels gained this week
Subscribers in the category Outdoors, fishing and homesteading
Views gained this week in the category Outdoors, fishing and homesteading
YouTube: Subscribers, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 2,210,000 subscribers → November 11, 2026: 2,210,000 subscribers (no significant change in the last month)
YouTube: Total views, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 536,142,809 views → November 11, 2026: 538,276,001 views · average: 73,558 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.
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 29.7 in the category: 19.1
- comments per 1,000 views
- 0.8 in the category: 0.6
- a video's usual first day on this channel
- 53,443 views
- short vs long
- 5 short (up to 3 minutes), 10 long
average views per short video: 17,019
average views per long video: 119,095
YouTube: Most watched videos (not Shorts)
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 Two Years Alone in the Wilderness | Escape the City to Buil… | March 22, 2019 | 1:31:40 | 42,021,637 |
 A Year in the Wilderness | Off Grid and Self Reliant in a L… | March 21, 2020 | 3:22:14 | 30,937,024 |
 Log Cabin Building TIMELAPSE Built By ONE MAN Alone In The … | January 10, 2018 | 4:59 | 17,507,490 |
 2 Years Alone Building an Off Grid Log Cabin in the Wildern… | December 31, 2022 | 1:25:04 | 14,345,936 |
 Off Grid Log Cabin: Alone with my Dog in an Ice Storm | January 26, 2018 | 40:11 | 12,560,960 |
YouTube: Most watched Shorts
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 From Forest to Shelter: Captivating Time-lapse of a Solo Lo… | June 12, 2023 | 1:00 | 1,598,054 |
 Building a timber frame outdoor kitchen at my log cabin alo… | June 21, 2023 | 0:57 | 325,852 |
 Making a Wooden Fishing Net and Catching Trout #fishing | May 21, 2026 | 1:30 | 197,837 |
 Building a log cabin sauna with hand tools alone #handtools… | July 18, 2023 | 0:59 | 169,158 |
 Antique Wood Cookstove Installation in the Outdoor Kitchen … | August 1, 2023 | 0:59 | 128,563 |
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 +463K views this week
A woodland smoker takes shape beside My Self Reliance's guest cabin
Shawn James prepares concrete footings and carries fieldstones as warm autumn weather leaves room for more outdoor work.
This week on the channel +684K views this week
Black ash becomes a longbow on My Self Reliance
Shawn James pairs hand-tool bowmaking with garden shutdown, gear maintenance and duck hunting with Cali.
This week on the channel 5 videos this week
A guest cabin, a sugar shack's doors and a 52-week budget
Between the building videos, an old-fashioned apple pie came out of the off-grid kitchen, and a morning mobility routine got its own upload.