Vsauce opens the closet safe and finds another mystery

Michael Stevens finally forces open a safe that has been locked since he bought his house eight years ago.

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What I Found In My Safe

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Michael Stevens has tried the combination route. Now he is hammering tools into the edge of a closet safe, putting a rather physical end to years of wondering what is inside.

"What I Found In My Safe" is the most-watched of Vsauce's two new uploads, reaching roughly 3.7 million views. Its appeal is wonderfully domestic: a creator known for pursuing enormous questions has an unanswered one sitting in his own house.

The door pops open to reveal what looks like nothing. Michael briefly settles for the idea that it contains knowledge, then returns to check for false panels. Beneath loose metal shelf plates, he finds a key. "Like, could I live in any more of an escape room?" he asks, before tossing it into a pedal bin.

Viewers are inventing the next stage anyway. Their suggestions include a deposit box holding the safe's combination and a house on the opposite side of Earth containing yet another safe. Others pick up the longstanding joke that Michael is concealing superhuman powers by pretending the door requires effort.

"The Most Incredible Footnote Ever?" also passed a million views. Both new uploads are currently drawing more daily views than "Ghost Tape Number 10," the other busy title in the catalog.

Vsauce added subscribers over the week, although its daily views are below their usual level. That slower daily pace is shared by nearby science channels Kurzgesagt and Veritasium. For Michael, though, the week's most tangible discovery is smaller than a grand explanation: a key with no identified lock.

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More from VsauceSubscriber surge +99,987 subscribers in a dayVsauce adds 100,000 subscribersMichael Stevens' latest upload, "What I Found In My Safe," sits beside ghost tapes and an unexpected question about the sun.Channel: Vsauce · Story of November 12, 2026 Also in Science and experimentsVideo taking off 27x its usual first dayScott Manley examines Super Heavy's tower abort and green flareHis fast-starting Short separates the reported reason for abandoning the tower catch from what happened just above the water.Channel: Scott Manley · Story of November 15, 2026 A different discovery todayVideo taking off 5x its usual first dayCaptain Steeeve traces the FAA ground stop to a system called ERAMFilmed at Detroit Metro Airport, his explainer runs from a failed network update to what pilots do when the radio goes quiet.Channel: Captain Steeeve · Story of November 15, 2026

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The videos drawing views on Vsauce right now

The Most Incredible Footnote Ever?1,248,019 views · 2026-11-12 Ghost Tape Number 103,842,251 views

The numbers

Here is how Vsauce's uploads and audience moved over the week.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Veritasium

21,785,514

Vsauce

18,637,850

Cleo Abram

16,009,821

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

12,910,005

NileRed

5,529,581

ElectroBOOM

4,479,057

AsapSCIENCE

2,642,802

The Slow Mo Guys

647,060

SmarterEveryDay

325,752

subscribers

25,400,000

▲ 100,000 in the last 7 days

total views

7,200,536,218

views per day

2,118,671

typical day: 3,236,995

first-day views of each video posted this week

What I Found In My Safe

1,613,523

The Most Incredible Footnote Ever?

864,516

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

25,800,000

Vsauce

25,400,000

Veritasium

21,400,000

The Slow Mo Guys

15,000,000

SmarterEveryDay

11,900,000

NileRed

11,000,000

AsapSCIENCE

10,800,000

Cleo Abram

8,960,000

ElectroBOOM

8,940,000

As of November 15, 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.