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Nails, heat and changing colors fill NileRed's upload break
With nothing new posted, the chemistry channel added roughly 14.6 million views across its existing videos.
In short
On YouTube, NileRed has 11,000,000 subscribers and 4,759,498,196 views in all, as of November 11, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 5,667,230 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "This magnet machine is scary", with 2,421,491 views. By YouTube subscribers it is No. 220 of the 5,393 channels on Trari, and No. 7 of 87 in category "Science and experiments". On Instagram, @nile.red has 1,236,136 followers. The account lost 449 followers in the last 7 days.
YouTube: The numbers today
subscribers
11,000,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
no significant change in the last month
no significant change in the last month
total views
4,759,498,196
▲ 5,667,230 in the last 7 days
▲ 36,451,330 in the last 30 days
▲ 36,451,330 in the last 30 days
views a day (current pace)
370,743
on a typical day: 940,058
Videos on the channel
402
1 uploaded in the last 30 days
Last upload
26 days ago
October 16, 2026
Views per subscriber
432
a new short video usually gets 7,242,893 views
Next milestone
20,000,000 subscribers
9,000,000 subscribers to go
Instagram: The numbers today
@nile.red · The account on Instagram
Followers
1,236,136
▼ 200 since yesterday
▼ 449 in the last 7 days
▼ 449 in the last 7 days
Posts
323
1 new post in the last 7 days
Views per Reel
277,578
usually, by 15 recent Reels
Likes per post
16,259
usually, by 15 recent posts
1.3% of followers
1.3% of followers
Place on Instagram
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Science and experiments | |
|---|---|---|
| By Instagram followers | 680 of 2,442 | 9 of 43 |
Ranked among the channels whose Instagram account is on Trari.
Instagram followers: Science and experiments
Latest posts
Tap a post to see it here
| Post | Type | Posted | Views | Likes | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This weird mushroom tastes like chicken | Reel | November 6, 2026 | 131,110 | 6,472 | 92 |
| This weird plant numbs your mouth | Reel | October 30, 2026 | 175,731 | 6,558 | 82 |
| This magnet machine is scary | Reel | October 23, 2026 | 209,951 | 10,936 | 77 |
| What did the government send me? | Reel | October 16, 2026 | 234,007 | 17,538 | 117 |
| The surface of aerogel is crazy | Reel | October 2, 2026 | 277,578 | 16,259 | 94 |
| Taking the fizz out of 100 cans of Red Bull - From when we made the world's most… | Reel | July 31, 2026 | 12,092,200 | 324,588 | 1,004 |
| The ridiculously heavy tungsten suit that we made on NileBlue #science #nilered… | Reel | July 24, 2026 | 2,469,187 | 187,425 | 1,742 |
| This is the purest salt I've ever seen #science #nilered #nileblue | Reel | July 17, 2026 | 1,130,857 | 63,361 | 447 |
As of November 11, 2026
Follower, post, like, comment and view counts in this part are Instagram's. The changes and the "usually" figures are Trari's own calculations.
YouTube: What happened lately
October 23, 2026 2.7x the video's usual pace Liquefying nails is crazy The video ran that day at 38,905 views a day, 2.7 times its usual pace (14,427).
This week on the channel +8.4M views this week
NileRed's magnet-making project comes with a powerful warning
His only upload of the week introduces a machine needed to make neodymium magnets.
This week on the channel
NileRed's color changing mercury outruns his air-into-alcohol trick
Nothing new went up, and two summer chemistry videos five days apart in age are still carrying the channel, with the mercury one clearly ah…
The video drawing the most views now
Turning air into alcohol
- Video published
- August 5, 2026
- Video views so far
- 12,776,134
- Video views, pace per day
- 48,415
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YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Science and experiments | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 220 of 5,393 | 7 of 87 |
| By views gained this week | 1,024 of 5,274 | 12 of 87 |
| By views gained in the last 30 days | 734 of 5,043 | 8 of 81 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 1.2% of all views the category's channels gained this week
Subscribers in the category Science and experiments
Views gained this week in the category Science and experiments
YouTube and Instagram: Subscribers and followers, last 30 days
Growth in percent since November 3, 2026, so both lines start from the same point
- YouTube · 11,000,000 subscribers 0% (0)
- Instagram · 1,236,136 followers -0.03% (-410)
From November 3, 2026 to November 11, 2026: on YouTube from 11,000,000 to 11,000,000 subscribers (0%), on Instagram from 1,236,546 to 1,236,136 followers (-0.03%).
YouTube rounds a large channel's subscriber count, so its line moves in steps.
The numbers by day
| Day | Subscribers (YouTube) | Followers (Instagram) |
|---|---|---|
| November 11, 2026 | 11,000,000 | 1,236,136 |
| November 10, 2026 | 11,000,000 | 1,236,336 |
| November 9, 2026 | 11,000,000 | 1,236,523 |
| November 8, 2026 | 11,000,000 | 1,236,565 |
| November 7, 2026 | 11,000,000 | 1,236,567 |
| November 6, 2026 | 11,000,000 | 1,236,540 |
| November 5, 2026 | 11,000,000 | 1,236,470 |
| November 4, 2026 | 11,000,000 | 1,236,585 |
| November 3, 2026 | 11,000,000 | 1,236,546 |
YouTube: Total views, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 4,724,090,424 views → November 11, 2026: 4,759,498,196 views · average: 1,220,957 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 This magnet machine is scary | October 16, 2026 | 1:12 short | 2,421,491 | 14,261 | 709,732 | 88,833 | 2,306 |
 Making nasty soap | August 19, 2026 | 3:00 short | 2,759,882 | 5,065 | - | 153,191 | 3,210 |
 Making color changing mercury | August 10, 2026 | 3:00 short | 9,853,500 | 10,788 | - | 456,462 | 6,873 |
 Turning air into alcohol | August 5, 2026 | 1:30:12 | 12,776,134 | 48,415 | - | 280,796 | 21,668 |
 These metals melt when pushed together | March 19, 2026 | 1:45 short | 6,120,856 | 4,590 | - | 345,574 | 3,916 |
 Extracting the soul from coffee | February 20, 2026 | 2:43 short | 8,599,719 | 3,074 | - | 421,560 | 8,329 |
 Dissolving glass in scary hydrofluoric acid | January 18, 2026 | 2:35 short | 7,242,893 | 3,135 | - | 334,240 | 7,717 |
 Making liquid nitrogen from scratch (an absurd amount) | October 23, 2025 | 55:33 | 11,687,384 | 7,993 | - | 370,483 | 19,690 |
 Turning regular sand into an explosive gas | October 20, 2025 | 2:33 short | 11,819,368 | 2,175 | - | 683,759 | 10,720 |
 Making a bouncy ball from scratch | August 14, 2025 | 3:00 short | 7,517,368 | 3,429 | - | 417,318 | 5,477 |
 Potassium metal is like weird butter | August 7, 2025 | 1:39 short | 4,750,490 | 1,365 | - | 228,678 | 3,484 |
 The clear ice myth | July 31, 2025 | 1:20 short | 6,742,624 | 768 | - | 437,177 | 5,841 |
 Liquefying nails is crazy | July 24, 2025 | 2:42 short | 15,656,482 | 3,026 | - | 923,897 | 10,069 |
 Making a bouncy egg by dissolving its shell | July 15, 2025 | 1:22 short | 4,457,342 | 850 | - | 250,224 | 6,382 |
 Mixing sodium and potassium is crazy | July 8, 2025 | 2:58 short | 38,850,184 | 13,300 | - | 1,623,163 | 17,091 |
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 46.4 in the category: 28.2
- comments per 1,000 views
- 0.9 in the category: 1.2
- short vs long
- 13 short (up to 3 minutes), 2 long
average views per short video: 9,753,246
average views per long video: 12,231,759
YouTube: Most watched videos (not Shorts)
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 Aluminum and Mercury | August 14, 2017 | 8:50 | 55,513,249 |
 Turning old jewelry into pure gold bars | May 29, 2019 | 31:23 | 40,037,157 |
 Making aerogel | March 30, 2020 | 43:56 | 39,866,583 |
 Making purple gold | December 22, 2023 | 53:20 | 32,742,346 |
 Turning plastic gloves into hot sauce | February 26, 2022 | 1:08:11 | 25,246,752 |
YouTube: Most watched Shorts
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 Bromine is scary | March 21, 2021 | 0:49 | 309,091,193 |
 I accidentally killed this magnet | August 10, 2023 | 1:00 | 192,169,433 |
 This ice cube is too heavy | May 18, 2022 | 0:49 | 181,042,280 |
 Making a block of perfectly clear ice | April 23, 2025 | 2:35 | 120,449,781 |
 Touching mercury | April 19, 2021 | 0:39 | 105,502,012 |
YouTube: What happened on the channel in the last 30 days
The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.
- Video surgingLiquefying nails is crazy The video ran that day at 38,905 views a day, 2.7 times its usual pace (14,427).
- Video surgingLiquefying nails is crazy The video ran that day at 31,028 views a day, 2.5 times its usual pace (12,582).
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 4,368,384 views a day, 3 times a normal day (1,463,645).
- Video surgingMixing sodium and potassium is crazy The video ran that day at 58,647 views a day, 2.1 times its usual pace (28,291).
- Video surgingLiquefying nails is crazy The video ran that day at 31,941 views a day, 3.1 times its usual pace (10,431).
- Video surgingLiquefying nails is crazy The video ran that day at 20,542 views a day, 2.2 times its usual pace (9,308).
- MilestoneThis magnet machine is scary The video passed 1,000,000 views.
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 2,939,150 views a day, 2.3 times a normal day (1,279,285).
Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube, Meta Instagram
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 +15M views this week
Nails, heat and changing colors fill NileRed's upload break
With nothing new posted, the chemistry channel added roughly 14.6 million views across its existing videos.
This week on the channel +8.4M views this week
NileRed's magnet-making project comes with a powerful warning
His only upload of the week introduces a machine needed to make neodymium magnets.
This week on the channel
NileRed's color changing mercury outruns his air-into-alcohol trick
Nothing new went up, and two summer chemistry videos five days apart in age are still carrying the channel, with the mercury one clearly ah…