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Five million subscribers, exactly one of them in the Cook Islands, and a 36-hour trip to find out who it is.
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Story of Why this story? One of the most watched videos since yesterday, with 957,717 views.
I Hunted Down My Most Remote Subscriber
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- 0:18The counter passes five million, and Max finds exactly one subscriber listed in the Cook Islands.
- 1:03A 36-hour run of flights takes him from London to Rarotonga.
- 4:05Baron recognizes Max and watches his videos, then checks whether he is actually subscribed.
- 5:45Max broadcasts an appeal and a phone number on Aunty Nga's show at Radio Cook Islands.
- 8:15Max pauses for an ad for his new show, No Bad Ideas, whose first episode features Alex Horne.
- 13:23Max carries a $50 name-guessing sign around the island, and the search reaches its answer at 14:57.
Max Fosh has five million subscribers, and the channel's own analytics showed exactly one of them in the Cook Islands. So he flew there to find out who.
"I Hunted Down My Most Remote Subscriber" opens with the counter ticking past five million. Then come 36 hours of connecting flights from London to Rarotonga, an island small enough to circle on a ring road of about 20 miles. Max drives it and puts the same question to strangers over and over: "I'm a YouTuber from the UK. Do you know who I am?"
There is a neat reversal in it. His most watched video fooled tourists into thinking they had landed at the wrong airport. Here he is the one wandering an unfamiliar place, hoping someone will place him. One local, Baron, gets it right ("You're Max Fosh") and says he watches the videos. Then he checks his phone and finds he never subscribed.
On day two the search goes on air. On Aunty Nga's morning show at Radio Cook Islands, Max reads out a phone number, and she cuts through his explanation with "What really are you after?" A cultural festival brings mostly polite refusals. By day three he is carrying a cardboard sign offering $50 to anyone who can name him, past churches, shops and bakeries. At the Muri Night Market, a burger cook named Calais calls out "Max!"
Along the way, the video stops for an ad for Max's own new show, No Bad Ideas, whose first episode features Alex Horne.
Nearly a million people watched in the first 11 hours. In the comments, viewers keep coming back to the radio interview, and they joke that the lone subscriber might be someone on the other side of the world with a VPN. Others point out that a British voice asking "do you know who I am" lands very differently back home.
The subscription survives a nervous phone check, and Max hands Calais his first Silver Play Button, the one he earned in 2019 for reaching 100,000 subscribers. Calais knows what to do with it: "I gotta keep this!"
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What viewers say
That one guy who used a VPN to subscribe to Max Fosh.
@irispettsonSee it on YouTubeAdmittedly, probably not the first time they've had a British guy traveling the whole island going "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM"
@broeanasirSee it on YouTube"Are you sure it's this Vodafone Store?"
"There's only one Vodafone Store" 😂@akshatliveytSee it on YouTube
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This video must have at least doubled his Cook islands subscriber count
@StrutsiinaSee it on YouTubeThe awkward radio interview is so painful oh my gosh
@roryh2241See it on YouTubethis must be a WILD video to watch as the one subscriber, not just to see themselves, but to see their home in the background and drone shots
@SlinxTheFoxSee it on YouTubeI live on a nordic 25km2 island just below the arctic circle, with 2 neighbours and 1000 sheep. No road access, no stores, no medical services, no school, no retail business of any kind. I feel I might actually be you're most remote subscriber.
@white_clover767See it on YouTubeWalking up to people and just asking "Do you know who I am" is rather threatening language in the UK 🤣
@N_a_t_h_BSee it on YouTubeMissed opportunity to ask a chicken why it crossed the road.
@isaacweber9435See it on YouTubeOk, but did Calais get the 50$ for calling out your name?
@mm7208-d2jSee it on YouTube
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- Channel
- Max Fosh
- Subscribers
- 5,180,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 2,845,543
- Channel views, pace per day
- 310,502 (on a normal day: 471,209)
- Video published
- October 25, 2026
- Video views so far
- 957,717 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 1,455,692
The numbers
Nearly a million views in its first half-day put the Cook Islands trip among the most watched new videos since yesterday.
💡 Test your knowledge
The Cook Islands are self-governing in free association with which country?
The Cook Islands govern themselves in free association with New Zealand, and Cook Islanders hold New Zealand citizenship.