Stolen identities, not solar panels: Two Bit da Vinci's detour wakes up on day three
The engineer's channel usually talks batteries and the grid, and the small comment section under this one keeps asking whether it is really an advertisement.
Two Bit da VinciStory of Why this story? The video is running at 35,573 views a day, 14 times its usual pace (2,598).
These Identify theft schemes are getting out of control...
Two Bit da Vinci is usually a channel about electrons. In recent weeks it has covered a Texas startup's home batteries, the economics of rooftop solar in America, and the power and water behind AI data centers. Ricky, the engineer behind it, bills the channel as an engineer's guide to the galaxy. Its newest upload steps away from all of that and into stolen identities.
"These Identify theft schemes are getting out of control..." went up on September 29 and had a quiet first day, a little over 3,000 views. Then it took off. In a single day it ran about fourteen times faster than its usual pace, and it is now close to 40,000 views. That happened while the channel as a whole was running below its normal daily level, so this detour is carrying more of the load than a newcomer usually does.
The description says almost nothing about the subject. The tags point toward an identity-protection service and family safety tips rather than engineering, and the handful of commenters have picked up on that. Several ask whether the video is mainly an advertisement, and others debate the protection service itself. One viewer offers a story instead: they froze their credit years ago, after their identity was stolen.
The channel's biggest audiences still belong to its energy work. The Base Power battery breakdown and the piece on residential solar, both from September, each sit well above a quarter of a million views.
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What viewers say
I froze my credit years ago after my identity was stolen! My luck none of the loans were approved because the criminals used the wrong address!
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- Channel
- Two Bit da Vinci
- Subscribers
- 814,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 59,335 (on a normal day: 80,188)
- Video published
- September 29, 2026
- Video views so far
- 39,433 (3 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 35,573 (on a normal day: 5,896)
The numbers
The figures show a slow first day followed by a sudden jump, on a week when the rest of the channel ran quieter than usual.
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The channel takes its name from Leonardo da Vinci. Which of these paintings is his?
Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa in the early 1500s. The others are by Van Gogh, Vermeer and Botticelli.
