Rako passes 400,000 subscribers alongside a classroom balloon tale
A teacher's unusual lesson is the strongest starter among new stories featuring a reluctant dragon and a last-second gnome rescue.
Why this story? The channel went from 301,000 to 401,000 subscribers this week.
Rako has added 100,000 subscribers in a week, growing by about a third as its animated stories move from unlikely rescues to a teacher's lesson involving balloons.
That classroom Short reached roughly 1.3 million views before its first day was over, an unusually quick start for the channel. A dragon refusing to leave its egg also drew views faster than Rako's usual Shorts, while another new upload gives a gnome the role of last-second rescuer. The balloon story has drawn the most views of those three.
These are tall tales with an important label attached. Rako says all its stories are dramatized for entertainment: some take inspiration from real events, while others are invented. It also describes making each one from a blank page, handling the script, animation, voiceover, editing, sound and subtitle timing itself. The classroom lesson belongs to that storytelling world, not a verified school report.
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Where next?
- Channel
- Rako
- Subscribers
- 401,000 ▲ 100,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 25,487,580
- Channel views, pace per day
- 2,871,055 (on a normal day: 4,210,041)
The numbers
The subscriber gain covers the past week. The new Shorts also show how quickly the balloon lesson and dragon story have started.
💡 Test your knowledge
In How to Train Your Dragon, what kind of dragon is Toothless?
Toothless is the Night Fury befriended by Hiccup in How to Train Your Dragon.

