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Not What You Think

Not What You Think

@notwhatyouthink📍 CA📅 6 yrs🔄 Updated 10/15/2026
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3.5M
subscribers
#187 Canada

Not What You Think had 3.5M subscribers as of October 15, 2026, ranked #187 in Canada. The channel has accumulated 3.7B views across 1,148 videos since 2020.

Relative to its audience, that is 1,069 lifetime views per subscriber and 1.9M views generated per day.

3.7Btotal views
1,148videos
1.9Mviews / day
1.2Mmedian views

Where does Not What You Think rank on YouTube?

Ranked by subscriber count, Not What You Think sits 187th in Canada and 6142nd worldwide.

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#187
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#6142
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Over the last 29 days, Not What You Think's subscriber count moved by +0.58 %.

When did Not What You Think start on YouTube?

Not What You Think published their first video on October 30, 2020, "6 Ways to Generate Electricity", which has 50.3K views. Their biggest hit since does 1,368 × that number.

6 Ways to Generate Electricity
🕰️ First video
6 Ways to Generate Electricity
50.3K views

Not What You Think published 953 videos between 2020 and 2025, peaking at 237 in 2021. Short-form dominates its recent output.

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What is Not What You Think's most-viewed video?

Not What You Think's most-viewed video is "Intentional Train Derailment #shorts", with 68.8M views. That is 22 × the performance of an average video on the channel. Its five best videos account for 7.2% of the channel's total views.

22 ×outlier multiplier on its best video

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Performance analysis

Which format works best for Not What You Think?

On Not What You Think, mid-form (3 to 20 min) performs best: a median of 1.4M views across 204 videos analysed. Medians are used rather than averages: on a channel with isolated hits, the average describes no real video.

Short< 3 min
1.2M915 videos
Mid3 – 20 min
1.4M204 videos
Long> 20 min
1.3M24 videos

How often does Not What You Think publish?

Not What You Think currently publishes 4,9 vidéos par semaine. Its catalogue generates 1,618 views per video per day.

4.9videos / week
192videos / year lifetime
1.4 ×vs lifetime pace

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How much does Not What You Think earn on YouTube?

Not What You Think's YouTube ad revenue is estimated between $13,978 and $46,357 per month. The estimate weights monthly views by the 90-day observed split: 94% short-form, 6% long-form. At this scale, advertising is typically a minority of a creator's actual income, behind brand partnerships and merchandise, which are not measured here.

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How many views does a typical Not What You Think video get?

The median Not What You Think video has 1.2M views, computed across 1,143 analysed videos.

How long has Not What You Think been publishing on YouTube?

Not What You Think has been publishing for 6 years, averaging 192 videos per year.

Which country is Not What You Think from?

Not What You Think is registered in CA.

Is this data up to date?

Channel statistics are collected daily, last recorded on October 15, 2026. Per-video measures cover 1,143 videos indexed in our database of over 21 million YouTube videos.

Methodology

Channel statistics collected daily (last recorded 10/15/2026). Per-video measures computed across 1,143 indexed videos, from a database of over 21 million videos and 27,000 YouTube channels. The outlier multiplier compares a video's views to its channel average. Format performance uses the median, more robust than the mean when isolated hits are present.

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