A Blink doorbell, unboxed with a subscriber, keeps Hobby Explorer ringing

The hundred-day-old unboxing has passed 199,000 views, and a dumbbell buying guide with a recall warning sits close behind.

Channel: Hobby ExplorerStory of October 4, 2026Trari Newsroom

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.

Doorbell Unboxing Chaos

What does a strength coach's channel lean on when nothing new goes up? On Hobby Explorer, oddly, a doorbell.

The man behind the channel says he quit a tech job to teach strength training to "normal looking people" like himself, and he is a certified personal trainer. Yet his busiest video right now is "Doorbell Unboxing Chaos," posted a hundred days ago, in which he opens an Amazon Blink camera doorbell with a fellow subscriber. The tags place it in his Bay Area home and in the Tamil-speaking community he talks to across the USA, Canada and Chennai. It has passed 199,000 views and still adds a few hundred a day.

The gym side is right behind. "Adjustable Dumbbells" is a short buying guide for anyone whose weights have started to feel light from progressive overload. He names the Nuobell set he uses, mentions REP and IronMaster, and points out that Bowflex was previously recalled. Third comes a call for guests for the Hobby Explorer Podcast, open to anyone with a journey, career or hobby worth telling.

No uploads went up over the seven days, and the channel ran a touch above its usual daily pace anyway. Among the podcast channels nearest its size it is fourth by subscribers, at 1.1 million. The loud week in that group belonged to Stiff Socks Podcast, while Club 520 Podcast also ran well above its norm.

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The videos drawing views on Hobby Explorer right now

Adjustable Dumbbells51,330 views Hobby's Podcast Guest46,188 views

The numbers

Here is how Hobby Explorer's week looks in figures.

subscribers

1,100,000

total views

597,120,366

views per day

96,168

typical day: 92,187

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

ALL THE SMOKE

1,350,000

Stiff Socks Podcast

1,170,000

All-In Podcast

1,150,000

Hobby Explorer

1,100,000

SmoshCast

1,100,000

Unsubscribe Podcast

1,010,000

SuperMega

1,000,000

Club 520 Podcast

928,000

Toni and Ryan

891,000

As of October 4, 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.

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