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What If

What If

@whatifscienceshow📍 US📅 8 yrs🔄 Updated 8/31/2026
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9M
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#738 United States

What If had 9M subscribers as of August 31, 2026, ranked #738 in United States. The channel has accumulated 1.8B views across 1,671 videos since 2018.

Relative to its audience, that is 196 lifetime views per subscriber and 284.1K views generated per day.

1.8Btotal views
1,671videos
284.1Kviews / day
293Kmedian views

Where does What If rank on YouTube?

Ranked by subscriber count, What If sits 738th in United States and 2432nd worldwide.

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#738
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The YouTube API rounds subscriber counts to three significant figures. At this scale, any change below 0.11% over the period is undetectable — we prefer to show nothing rather than rounding noise.

When did What If start on YouTube?

What If published their first video on July 18, 2018, "What If, an Epic Exploration of Possibilities.", which has 339.8K views. Their biggest hit since does 148 × that number.

What If, an Epic Exploration of Possibilities.
🕰️ First video
What If, an Epic Exploration of Possibilities.
339.8K views

What If published 1,531 videos between 2018 and 2025, peaking at 291 in 2023. Since 2023, videos under 3 minutes account for 57% of output, against 16% before.

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What is What If's most-viewed video?

What If's most-viewed video is "What If Earth Was Shaped Like a Donut? #Shorts", with 50.5M views. That is 49 × the performance of an average video on the channel. Its five best videos account for 8.2% of the channel's total views.

49 ×outlier multiplier on its best video

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Performance analysis

Which format works best for What If?

On What If, mid-form (3 to 20 min) performs best: a median of 504.4K views across 863 videos analysed. That is 7 × short-form (under 3 min). Medians are used rather than averages: on a channel with isolated hits, the average describes no real video.

Short< 3 min
71.8K595 videos
Mid3 – 20 min
504.4K863 videos
Long> 20 min
219K211 videos

How often does What If publish?

What If currently publishes 2,8 vidéos par semaine. Its catalogue generates 170 views per video per day.

2.8videos / week
206videos / year lifetime
0.7 ×vs lifetime pace

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How much does What If earn on YouTube?

What If's YouTube ad revenue is estimated between $23,599 and $86,467 per month. The estimate weights monthly views by the 90-day observed split: 8% short-form, 92% 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 What If video get?

The median What If video has 293K views, computed across 1,669 analysed videos.

How long has What If been publishing on YouTube?

What If has been publishing for 8 years, averaging 206 videos per year.

Which country is What If from?

What If is registered in US.

Is this data up to date?

Channel statistics are collected daily, last recorded on August 31, 2026. Per-video measures cover 1,669 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 1,669 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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