Fireship's Meta Connect recap sets the pace at three days old
The ex-OpenAI video still holds the week's biggest total, but the Meta story is drawing views roughly three times faster.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
An ex-OpenAI researcher just deleted language from the LLM...
Three days after it went up, "Meta is pivoting again... everything you missed from Connect 2026" is the video carrying Fireship. It opened hard, with well over a million views on its first day, and it has cooled since, as fresh uploads do. Even so, it is still pulling in about three times the daily views of anything else on the channel.
The week's biggest total belongs to the oldest of the three uploads, "An ex-OpenAI researcher just deleted language from the LLM...", which is closing in on three million views after seven days. In between sits "The most expensive 33 hours in WordPress history...", past a million and ticking along more gently. All three landed in seven figures, and they did it with three quite different subjects: a research idea, a platform mishap and a keynote recap.
Overall the channel held exactly its usual daily pace. Among the technology and software channels around it, Fireship ranks second by subscribers, just behind Kevin Stratvert, yet it draws the most daily views of the group listed, roughly double Google Chrome's in second place. Microsoft and AWS Developers, both with sizable subscriber counts, are running far quieter.
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The videos drawing views on Fireship right now
- Channel
- Fireship
- Subscribers
- 4,280,000
- Videos published this week
- 3
- Video published
- September 21, 2026
- Video views so far
- 2,775,408
The numbers
Here are the figures behind Fireship's week.





