Not What You Think
Not What You Think had 3.4M subscribers as of August 31, 2026, ranked #188 in Canada. The channel has accumulated 3.6B views across 1,115 videos since 2020.
Relative to its audience, that is 1,053 lifetime views per subscriber and 1.1M views generated per day.
Where does Not What You Think rank on YouTube?
Ranked by subscriber count, Not What You Think sits 188th in Canada and 6158th worldwide.
The YouTube API rounds subscriber counts to three significant figures. At this scale, any change below 0.29% over the period is undetectable — we prefer to show nothing rather than rounding noise.
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.
Not What You Think published 953 videos between 2020 and 2025, peaking at 237 in 2021. Short-form dominates its recent output.
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 7.4% of the channel's total views.
22 ×outlier multiplier on its best video
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 200 videos analysed. Medians are used rather than averages: on a channel with isolated hits, the average describes no real video.
How often does Not What You Think publish?
Not What You Think currently publishes 4,2 vidéos par semaine. Its catalogue generates 985 views per video per day.
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Not What You Think's YouTube ad revenue is estimated between $5,659 and $17,771 per month. The estimate weights monthly views by the 90-day observed split: 97% short-form, 3% 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 1.3M views, computed across 1,116 analysed videos.
How long has Not What You Think been publishing on YouTube?
Not What You Think has been publishing for 6 years, averaging 191 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 August 31, 2026. Per-video measures cover 1,116 videos indexed in our database of over 21 million YouTube videos.
Methodology
Channel statistics collected daily (last recorded 8/31/2026). Per-video measures computed across 1,116 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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