A pumpkin against the monster of the woods, and 116,000 new subscribers for Rako
The animated story channel's gentler tales, a goose guiding a blind dog and a boy with an empty pot, are moving at a far quieter pace than its monster rescues.
RakoStory of Why this story? The channel went from 214,000 to 330,000 subscribers this week.
Rako added 116,000 subscribers in seven days and now stands at 330,000, so more than a third of the channel's audience arrived within a single week. The about page names a target, a million subscribers, and the channel is now a third of the way there.
Its newest guardian is a pumpkin. "His Pumpkin SAVED Him From The Monster Of The WOODS 😱" went up on October 4 and passed a million views in about thirteen hours, several times what a new Rako short usually manages in a full first day. It arrived a day after the gargoyle that fought off "All The MONSTERS", a short that has since climbed past three million.
The quieter titles tell a different story about the channel. On the same day as the pumpkin, Rako posted a garden that blooms once someone loves its owner, and a boy who "Brought An EMPTY Pot And Became KING," a plot that echoes the old Chinese folk tale retold in Demi's picture book The Empty Pot. A goose acting as a blind dog's eyes came the day before. Each of those sits in the tens of thousands of views, a long way behind the monsters and their unlikely protectors.
All of it is made in-house, the about text says: the script, the animation, the voiceover, the sound and every subtitle. The channel also says plainly that its stories are dramatized, some inspired by real events and others built from scratch.
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- Channel
- Rako
- Subscribers
- 330,000 ▲ 116,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 35,492,938
- Channel views, pace per day
- 4,265,072 (on a normal day: 4,381,991)
The numbers
The figures below show a week in which the channel grew by more than half of where it started.
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In the classic Cinderella story, what does the fairy godmother turn a pumpkin into?
In Charles Perrault's version and in Disney's 1950 film, the fairy godmother transforms a pumpkin into the coach that carries Cinderella to the ball.
