Joe Pie's machine-shop channel has two unlikely spider hits
Daily viewing has climbed sixfold across a catalog where wolf-spider encounters sit above the machining lessons.
Why this story? The whole channel is running at 101,279 views a day, 6 times a normal day (16,865).
Joe Pie makes precision miniature machinery, but the two most-watched regular videos on his channel feature a rather different subject: wolf spiders.
"Man Untangles Wolf Spider" and "Try and Touch a 3" Wolf Spider. See what happens !!" sit above his lessons on getting parts to run true in a chuck and making a reliable tie-down knot. It's an unexpected introduction to a channel otherwise steeped in milling, turning and the practical problems of working with metal.
The channel is drawing about 100,000 views a day, six times its usual pace. That rise belongs to the whole catalog; it isn't clear which uploads are driving it.
His latest listed upload, "Eccentric Turning and Soft Emergency Collets," returns to material originally posted in 2018, newly edited with more detail. Another revised lesson revisits making angle blocks, while his manual-machining comparison produces an identical part with a rotary table and a CNC mill. Joe includes the math and setup, making the process, rather than just the finished component, the subject.
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Where next?
- Channel
- Joe Pie
- Subscribers
- 184,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 257,955
- Channel views, pace per day
- 101,279 (on a normal day: 16,865)
The numbers
Viewing across Joe Pie's channel is running well above its usual daily pace.
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