A La La Land thumbnail and a key analogy: Joe Bart on telling a good story
The philosophy channel's one upload of the week is a pre-recorded talk on storytelling, and the comments are asking for more of them.
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The Art Of Telling A Good Story...
"The Art Of Telling A Good Story..." is the only new video on Joe Bart Philosophy this week, the side channel Joe Bartolozzi says he started after finishing his degree, so his main channel would not get crammed with it. This one is about why stories work: how a narrative is built, why humans keep telling them, and, by the viewers' account, a few detours into humor along the way.
The thumbnail borrows from La La Land, and the comment section noticed. So did a different crowd: the most liked replies are a petition, half joking, for more pre-recorded videos like this, and several people point out what is missing from the top corner of the frame this time, a stream chat. A key analogy somewhere in the middle gets its own small fan club, and a few viewers say the habit of jumping from idea to idea makes it feel like a conversation rather than a lecture.
It opened with more than 220,000 views on its first day and is now the channel's busiest video, ahead of last month's "What Happens If A Human Never Learns A Language?", which has passed 3.9 million and keeps adding views.
The channel as a whole ran slower than its usual pace, with a little over two million views across the seven days, and passed the million-subscriber mark with about 10,000 more. Among the explainer and history channels close to its size, it sat fourth for views gained. Geography By Geoff and BBC Timestamp had the louder weeks, and hoser drew the most.
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What viewers say
We need to petition to get more of this pre-recorded content.
@AndrewKlinkSee it on YouTubehe looks so mischievous in the thumbnail
@qifreyxSee it on YouTubeWait wtf that key analogy was amazing 😭
@NyroventooSee it on YouTube
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The videos drawing views on Joe Bart Philosophy right now
- Channel
- Joe Bart Philosophy
- Subscribers
- 1,010,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 2,134,423
- Videos published this week
- 1
- Video published
- September 29, 2026
- Video views so far
- 364,695
- Views on its first day
- 224,460
The numbers
Here is how Joe Bart Philosophy's week looks in figures.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which writer described the 'monomyth,' the hero's journey that storytelling guides still lean on, in The Hero with a Thousand Faces?
Joseph Campbell published The Hero with a Thousand Faces in 1949, setting out the hero's journey, whose stages include the call to adventure.
