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Nicole Paige Brooks opens LGBTQ+ History Month for RuPaul's Drag Race

The Atlanta queen from Season 2 and All Stars 10 looks back on her childhood, her road to drag and therapy in two Portrait of a Queen videos.

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Nicole Paige Brooks From Atlanta, GA 👑 | Portrait of a QueenNicole Paige Brooks From Atlanta, GA 👑 | Portrait of a Queen

The official RuPaul's Drag Race channel marked the start of LGBTQ+ History Month with a single queen. Both of its new uploads went up on October 1, and both belong to Nicole Paige Brooks of Atlanta, Georgia.

The main one, "Nicole Paige Brooks From Atlanta, GA 👑 | Portrait of a Queen," is a sit-down look back at her life. She covers her childhood, how she found drag, and her two runs on the show, first on Season 2 in 2010 and then on All Stars 10. The description says she shares her thoughts on "those points," which fans of All Stars scoring will understand at once. It passed 36,000 views in its first twelve hours. A shorter companion cut, "Nicole Paige Brooks Reflects on Her Childhood and Therapy," takes the most personal part of the conversation and gives it room of its own.

Away from the new portrait, the library keeps doing its own work. A short from Season 6, "NOT THAT WIG!?", built around Adore Delano, has passed a million views and is still collecting a couple of thousand a day.

The channel as a whole ran a little under its usual daily pace, in line with most of the talent and reality channels near its size. Dancing With The Stars is the exception, drawing several times its normal daily views while its new season is on air.

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Nicole Paige Brooks Reflects on Her Childhood and Therapy11,117 views · 2026-10-01 NOT THAT WIG!? #AdoreDelano #Season6 #DragRace1,004,267 views
The facts
Subscribers
1,560,000
Videos published this week
2
Video published
October 1, 2026
Video views so far
36,616

The numbers

Here are the figures behind the Drag Race channel's week.

subscribers
1,560,000
total views
1,907,914,645
views per day
195,672
typical day: 208,844
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
Love Island
2,050,000
The Voice UK
1,890,000
Love & Hip Hop
1,690,000
Freakin' Famous Auditions
1,610,000
Ink Master
1,570,000
RuPaul's Drag Race
1,560,000
I'm A Celebrity... Get Me…
1,450,000
Dancing With The Stars
1,370,000
Reality Club
1,330,000
As of October 2, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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💡 Test your knowledge

Adore Delano, the queen in the channel's Season 6 wig short, first became known as a contestant on which singing competition?

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