This week on the channel +463K views this week

The Slow Mo Guys' giant water balloon nears 200 million

The 2011 upload is close to a landmark during a week without a new video from Gav and Dan.

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The Slow Mo Guys Story of October 27, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Camera Shutters are Extremely Fast - The Slow Mo Guys

A six-foot water balloon has had a remarkably long afterlife. Posted in 2011, "Giant 6ft Water Balloon - The Slow Mo Guys" now sits just short of 200 million views, the channel's most-watched regular upload. With nothing new posted this week, it's a fitting reminder of how much Gav and Dan have left in the archive.

The strongest daily momentum, though, belongs to a more intricate subject: "Camera Shutters are Extremely Fast - The Slow Mo Guys." Gavin Free films a Canon camera's shutter at 80,000 frames per second, revealing how the second curtain starts moving before the first has finished clearing the sensor. Something that sounds like a single click becomes a carefully timed sequence of moving parts.

That explainer is drawing substantially more daily views than the mirror-bending experiment and the Missouri radio-tower visit with Jeff Geerling, where a broadcast takes a diversion through a hot dog.

Across the channel, daily viewing is slightly below its usual pace, while subscribers held steady through the week. Among fellow science channels, Kurzgesagt has added a substantial audience and ElectroBOOM's daily viewing is well above normal. For The Slow Mo Guys, this was an upload-free week with both tiny camera mechanisms and one enormous balloon supplying reasons to browse.

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The videos drawing views on The Slow Mo Guys right now

Does a Mirror Bend Before it Breaks? Yes. - The Slow Mo Guys2,248,633 views

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The facts

Channel: The Slow Mo Guys
Subscribers: 15,000,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 463,461
Videos published this week: 0

The numbers

Here's how viewing and subscriber totals moved across the week.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Vsauce

29,903,922

Cleo Abram

23,071,107

Veritasium

19,150,097

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

18,757,436

10,954,383

5,923,783

2,290,770

463,461

358,300

subscribers

15,000,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

2,724,507,465

views per day

72,182

typical day: 75,410

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

25,800,000

25,300,000

21,400,000

15,000,000

11,900,000

11,000,000

10,800,000

8,910,000

8,910,000

As of October 27, 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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