Two vlogbrothers uploads connect John's doubts about living in public with Hank's argument about feeds reshaping attention.
On YouTube, vlogbrothers has 4,090,000 subscribers and 1,110,818,696 views in all, as of November 11, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 1,823,480 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "The Last Normal Year", with 1,452,885 views. By YouTube subscribers it is No. 725 of the 5,393 channels on Trari, and No. 10 of 138 in category "Vlogs and daily life".
YouTube: The numbers today
no significant change in the last month
▲ 6,343,170 in the last 30 days
YouTube: What happened lately
November 11, 2026 passed 1M views Why Are We So Bad at Executing People? The video passed 1,000,000 views.
John and Hank's reunion shares the week with a new question: "Is Happiness the Goal?"
The newer of two uploads opened with more than two hundred thousand views on its first day and is still moving about five times faster than…
The video drawing the most views now
Some Good News
- Video published
- November 10, 2026
- Video views so far
- 224,008
- Video views, pace per day
- 310,716
- Views in its first 13 hours
- 224,008
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YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Vlogs and daily life | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 725 of 5,393 | 10 of 138 |
| By views gained this week | 2,029 of 5,274 | 23 of 137 |
| By views gained in the last 30 days | 2,248 of 5,043 | 23 of 136 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 0.9% of all views the category's channels gained this week
Subscribers in the category Vlogs and daily life
Views gained this week in the category Vlogs and daily life
YouTube: Subscribers, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 4,090,000 subscribers → November 11, 2026: 4,090,000 subscribers (no significant change in the last month)
YouTube: Total views, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 1,104,619,794 views → November 11, 2026: 1,110,818,696 views · average: 213,755 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Some Good News | November 10, 2026 | 5:27 | 224,008 | 310,716 | 224,008 (13 hours) | 10,080 | 401 |
A Unified Theory of A**hole Behavior | November 6, 2026 | 10:03 | 580,352 | 46,241 | 303,946 | 14,829 | 1,889 |
The Last Normal Year Was 1345 | November 3, 2026 | 6:39 | 619,623 | 33,221 | 270,719 | 16,699 | 1,127 |
The Last Normal Year | October 30, 2026 | 9:15 | 1,452,885 | 22,147 | 492,073 | 31,506 | 3,374 |
Should I Salinger... | October 27, 2026 | 4:28 | 226,913 | 1,309 | 139,801 | 6,658 | 383 |
The Best Email I Ever Got | October 23, 2026 | 6:32 | 264,754 | 535 | 149,876 | 7,445 | 522 |
Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis | 50 x 5… | October 20, 2026 | 8:34 | 212,536 | 424 | 132,094 | 5,650 | 204 |
Is Happiness the Goal? | October 16, 2026 | 5:09 | 282,981 | 643 | 133,936 | 7,811 | 508 |
My Lungs Are on the Outside of the Body | October 13, 2026 | 7:26 | 351,956 | 306 | 218,197 | 10,305 | 816 |
The Productivity Lie | October 9, 2026 | 12:44 | 1,075,074 | 3,700 | - | 22,706 | 1,272 |
The Test of a First Rate Intelligence | October 8, 2026 | 4:50 | 186,489 | 210 | - | 6,012 | 271 |
The 5 Meanest Things We've Named a Species | October 7, 2026 | 8:27 | 393,926 | 1,145 | - | 9,795 | 769 |
Make Your Art. | October 6, 2026 | 4:54 | 661,324 | 405 | - | 20,450 | 560 |
Why Are We So Bad at Executing People? | October 5, 2026 | 8:21 | 1,000,178 | 1,247 | - | 17,805 | 2,832 |
the most powerful attention-consuming tools in the history … | October 2, 2026 | 4:16 | 221,253 | 295 | - | 6,686 | 506 |
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 25.1 in the category: 26.8
- comments per 1,000 views
- 2.0 in the category: 0.8
- a video's usual first day on this channel
- 166,917 views
- short vs long
- 0 short (up to 3 minutes), 15 long
average views per long video: 516,950
YouTube: Most watched videos (not Shorts)
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
Giraffe Love and Other Questions ANSWERED | January 3, 2009 | 2:53 | 16,488,934 |
People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes | February 21, 2008 | 3:39 | 16,267,884 |
Top 10 Animal POWER MOVES | March 25, 2010 | 3:45 | 10,853,088 |
The Commercial that Killed a Fast Food Chain | October 8, 2020 | 3:58 | 8,648,713 |
So, I've got cancer | May 19, 2023 | 13:49 | 8,349,249 |
YouTube: Most watched Shorts
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
Don’t tell John. Let him have this. | September 16, 2025 | 0:19 | 1,275,439 |
Apparently you can make a short from a video comment now!!! | September 23, 2022 | 1:00 | 501,955 |
Do I make things Simple?? | October 20, 2023 | 0:41 | 281,922 |
Whatcha think??? | January 12, 2023 | 0:15 | 272,899 |
October 4, 2024 | October 5, 2024 | 0:23 | 270,847 |
YouTube: What happened on the channel in the last 30 days
The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.
- MilestoneWhy Are We So Bad at Executing People? The video passed 1,000,000 views.
- MilestoneThe Last Normal Year The video passed 1,000,000 views.
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 570,136 views a day, 3.1 times a normal day (186,813).
- MilestoneThe Productivity Lie The video passed 1,000,000 views.
Stories
Two vlogbrothers uploads connect John's doubts about living in public with Hank's argument about feeds reshaping attention.
John and Hank's reunion shares the week with a new question: "Is Happiness the Goal?"
The newer of two uploads opened with more than two hundred thousand views on its first day and is still moving about five times faster than…

























