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Why vitamin F didn't keep its name
SciShow's Hank Green untangles an alphabet shaped by discoveries, mistaken identities and nutrients that lost their vitamin status.
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On YouTube, SciShow has 8,420,000 subscribers and 2,281,937,117 views in all, as of November 11, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 3,810,775 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "AI Psychosis Is Killing People. It’s Time to Talk About It", with 978,010 views. By YouTube subscribers it is No. 317 of the 5,393 channels on Trari, and No. 11 of 87 in category "Science and experiments". On Instagram, @scishow has 147,379 followers.
YouTube: The numbers today
subscribers
8,420,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
no significant change in the last month
no significant change in the last month
total views
2,281,937,117
▲ 3,810,775 in the last 7 days
▲ 16,027,774 in the last 30 days
▲ 16,027,774 in the last 30 days
views a day (current pace)
549,245
on a typical day: 506,890
Videos on the channel
4,249
4 uploaded in the last 7 days
Last upload
yesterday
November 10, 2026
Views per subscriber
271
a new long video usually gets 203,701 views
Next milestone
10,000,000 subscribers
1,580,000 subscribers to go
Instagram: The numbers today
@scishow · The account on Instagram
Followers
147,379
Posts
471
Views per Reel
10,755
usually, by 4 recent Reels
Likes per post
205
usually, by 15 recent posts
0.14% of followers
0.14% of followers
Place on Instagram
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Science and experiments | |
|---|---|---|
| By Instagram followers | 1,636 of 2,434 | 27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| We're doing something we've never done before! | Carousel | October 28, 2026 | - | 1,954 | 78 |
| Next up on our roll call is Niba! | Carousel | October 16, 2026 | - | 185 | 6 |
| Please watch our Deep Dive on the Dyatlov Pass Incident. | Reel | October 9, 2026 | 12,034 | 292 | 8 |
| ATTENTION: our next Deep Dive will come out tomorrow at 1pm ET! | Carousel | October 8, 2026 | - | 73 | 2 |
| Our TENTH Deep Dive comes out on Thursday, and we wanted to share a little more… | Carousel | October 5, 2026 | - | 103 | 0 |
| Denali's Residency debut is up now! They're answering your volcano questions… | Reel | September 25, 2026 | 19,166 | 321 | 4 |
| There have been a lot of faces on the SciShow channel lately, both old and new!… | Carousel | September 24, 2026 | - | 296 | 18 |
| Please give a very warm welcome to our newest SciShow Resident, Denali! | Carousel | September 1, 2026 | - | 4,626 | 120 |
Of the 15 latest posts: 4 Reels and 11 carousels.
As of November 10, 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 22, 2026 2.6x the channel's usual pace The whole channel ran that day at 1,316,709 views a day, 2.6 times a normal day (514,895).
This week on the channel +3.2M views this week
SciShow examines how chatbots can reinforce delusions
Reid Reimers separates clinical psychosis from AI-generated errors in the most watched of five new uploads.
This week on the channel +4.8M views this week
Failed malaria chemistry makes mauve on SciShow
Hank Green follows William Henry Perkin's accidental purple dye from Victorian fashion into the foundations of modern pharmaceuticals.
The video drawing the most views now
Why Isn’t Heart Cancer a Thing?
- Video published
- November 10, 2026
- Video views so far
- 206,963
- Video views, pace per day
- 339,174
- Views in its first 10 hours
- 206,963
Similar channels
YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Science and experiments | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 317 of 5,393 | 11 of 87 |
| By views gained this week | 1,323 of 5,274 | 18 of 87 |
| By views gained in the last 30 days | 1,320 of 5,043 | 19 of 81 |
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 Science and experiments
Views gained this week in the category Science and experiments
YouTube: Subscribers, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 8,420,000 subscribers → November 11, 2026: 8,420,000 subscribers (no significant change in the last month)
YouTube: Total views, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 2,266,289,318 views → November 11, 2026: 2,281,937,117 views · average: 539,579 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Why Isn’t Heart Cancer a Thing? | November 10, 2026 | 7:43 | 206,963 | 339,174 | 206,963 (10 hours) | 5,669 | 369 |
 5 Species That Love Fire | November 9, 2026 | 11:39 | 161,286 | 74,591 | 134,961 | 4,391 | 272 |
 4 Supervolcanoes You’ve Never Heard Of | November 6, 2026 | 13:49 | 253,596 | 17,336 | 136,478 | 5,387 | 401 |
 The Man O' War Is Scarier Than You Think | November 5, 2026 | 5:51 | 367,843 | 24,937 | 156,911 | 8,017 | 540 |
 Why Is There No Vitamin F? | November 4, 2026 | 15:11 | 919,764 | 90,030 | 253,833 | 13,690 | 994 |
 What Was the First Alcohol? | November 3, 2026 | 14:41 | 203,701 | 4,187 | 120,462 | 4,967 | 258 |
 This Rock Was Supposed to Be from Space | November 2, 2026 | 10:57 | 145,918 | 1,538 | 99,749 | 3,620 | 127 |
 5 Maps That Changed History | October 30, 2026 | 13:28 | 177,168 | 1,714 | 93,456 | 4,142 | 282 |
 Two Different Things Are Killing Sharks | October 29, 2026 | 7:44 | 271,701 | 851 | 138,251 | 5,159 | 256 |
 AI Psychosis Is Killing People. It’s Time to Talk About It | October 28, 2026 | 17:05 | 978,010 | 13,959 | 302,472 | 15,561 | 2,676 |
 How To Hold Something That's 10,000,000 Degrees | October 27, 2026 | 15:02 | 255,277 | 2,234 | 148,730 | 4,739 | 266 |
 How Many Times Can You Clone Your Clone? | October 26, 2026 | 10:34 | 183,362 | 499 | 117,417 | 3,929 | 395 |
 The Plane Crash That Gave Us Cataract Surgery | October 23, 2026 | 8:22 | 187,321 | 305 | 103,469 | 3,707 | 192 |
 Why Can't Every Shot Be a Pill? | October 22, 2026 | 8:41 | 163,028 | 222 | 104,394 | 3,067 | 315 |
 Why Weed Doesn't Work on Everyone | October 21, 2026 | 8:53 | 648,584 | 1,768 | 250,807 | 9,167 | 1,611 |
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 18.6 in the category: 30.1
- comments per 1,000 views
- 1.7 in the category: 1.1
- a video's usual first day on this channel
- 142,194 views
- short vs long
- 0 short (up to 3 minutes), 15 long
average views per long video: 341,568
YouTube: Most watched videos (not Shorts)
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 The Sex Lives of Early Humans | March 15, 2012 | 3:58 | 12,507,601 |
 The Deepest Hole in the World, And What We've Learned From … | May 6, 2014 | 4:01 | 12,157,408 |
 The 5 Most Dangerous Chemicals on Earth | December 13, 2014 | 10:45 | 11,928,995 |
 The Deadliest Toxins on Earth | March 25, 2013 | 10:46 | 9,829,807 |
 Bananas Are Not What You Think | The Shocking Truth | July 18, 2013 | 3:59 | 9,732,504 |
YouTube: Most watched Shorts
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 We solved Roman concrete #shorts #science #SciShow | March 13, 2023 | 0:58 | 22,746,407 |
 The sandbox tree has explosive seeds. #shorts #science #Sci… | September 14, 2022 | 0:58 | 15,665,810 |
 Don't put water in the microwave. #shorts #science #SciShow | May 9, 2023 | 0:57 | 10,728,291 |
 Why does cannabis smell so skunky? #shorts #science #SciSh… | October 27, 2022 | 0:51 | 6,685,780 |
 Glass frogs hide their blood in a mirror-coated liver. #sho… | April 5, 2023 | 0:52 | 6,560,974 |
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 1,316,709 views a day, 2.6 times a normal day (514,895).
- MilestoneThe Science That Finally Explains the Dyatlov Pas… The video passed 1,000,000 views.
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.
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A video worth knowing
Why vitamin F didn't keep its name
SciShow's Hank Green untangles an alphabet shaped by discoveries, mistaken identities and nutrients that lost their vitamin status.
This week on the channel +3.2M views this week
SciShow examines how chatbots can reinforce delusions
Reid Reimers separates clinical psychosis from AI-generated errors in the most watched of five new uploads.
This week on the channel +4.8M views this week
Failed malaria chemistry makes mauve on SciShow
Hank Green follows William Henry Perkin's accidental purple dye from Victorian fashion into the foundations of modern pharmaceuticals.
This week on the channel +3.7M views this week
Frozen's snow science connects to Dyatlov Pass on SciShow
Madelyn Leembruggen hosts an explanation of avalanche physics, among five new uploads ranging from fossil mysteries to gold.
This week on the channel 5 videos this week
Hank Green's volcanologist Q&A erupts past SciShow's kitchen week
Two days old, the interview is gathering views roughly four times faster than the dish-washing and ketamine videos that opened the week.