BrainCraft asks whether sleepmaxxing has made bedtime too complicated

Vanessa Hill's sole new upload pairs a critique of sleep trends with a sponsored mattress segment.

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Has sleep become overcomplicated? #shorts

Dr Vanessa Hill has a question for anyone trying to perfect their nightly sleep score: has the optimisation become part of the problem? In "Has sleep become overcomplicated? #shorts", she takes aim at the expanding bedtime toolkit of mouth tape, peptide injections and supplement stacks.

The Short is sponsored by a mattress company and includes a product endorsement. Before that segment, Hill points to a systematic review finding little evidence and potential risks for mouth taping. Her broader argument is about priorities: chasing every variable makes little sense if basic comfort is getting overlooked.

The week's only upload has reached about 12,000 views. Beneath it, viewers ask how mouth taping is supposed to work, while another offers a rather simpler definition of sleepmaxxing: skipping a party to go to bed. Several comments also raise the distinction between science education and advertising.

BrainCraft's subscriber count was unchanged over the week, and daily views are currently around half their usual level. That quieter pattern also appears at nearby health channels SkinnyMedic and Medlife Crisis; ADHD Love, by contrast, is having a much busier spell.

The main source of viewing momentum remains "Why your brain feels different at 11pm". That longer September upload connects the forgetting curve, research on time-of-day differences in wellbeing and Hill's own late-night Pinterest habit. It is drawing considerably more daily views than the new Short, keeping BrainCraft's earlier exploration of the evening self active alongside its latest bedtime question.

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More from BrainCraftThis week on the channel +16K views this weekWhy your brain feels different at 11pm, explained by a sleep scientistDr Vanessa Hill's two-week-old video leans on a study of nearly a million mental health observations, and on Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve.Channel: BrainCraft · Story of October 7, 2026 Also in Health and medicineThis week on the channel +14M views this weekTrip plans and shared chores fill ADHD Love's weekRich and Rox's nine uploads turn everyday sayings, productivity and household disagreements into comedy.Channel: ADHD Love · Story of November 6, 2026 A different discovery todayVideo taking off 43x its usual first dayJimmy Kimmel answers Trump's midterm defense: "You're like dog hair"A White House statement attacking his monologues becomes part of the next one, alongside ballroom marble and an "I DID #2" sticker.Channel: Jimmy Kimmel Live · Story of November 6, 2026

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The videos drawing views on BrainCraft right now

Why your brain feels different at 11pm44,232 views Why do we keep changing the clocks? #shorts8,158 views

The numbers

Here is how BrainCraft's week looks in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

ADHD Love

14,310,290

wikiHow

2,094,040

Jason Fung

282,810

SkinnyMedic

62,382

Kevin Jubbal, M.D.

53,739

Mic the Vegan

49,594

Medlife Crisis

40,552

BrainCraft

33,045

Healthcare Triage

18,763

subscribers

622,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

31,193,940

views per day

2,666

typical day: 5,301

first-day views of each video posted this week

Has sleep become overcomplicated? #shor…

6,133

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Jason Fung

1,460,000

wikiHow

924,000

SkinnyMedic

629,000

BrainCraft

622,000

Medlife Crisis

580,000

ADHD Love

564,000

Healthcare Triage

447,000

Mic the Vegan

404,000

Kevin Jubbal, M.D.

268,000

As of November 6, 2026 · 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.