CGP Grey's breakout videos
Every recent long-form upload, scored against the channel's own median. These are the videos the audience pushed far past normal. Updated weekly.
Pentagons Are Terrible at One Thing
There's No Crying in Flag Design4.7×3
Tumbleweeds Aren't From Here3.4×4
America's Worst-Designed Backup Plan3.2×5
Highway Numbers Aren’t Names. They’re Coordinates.3.1×6
Only One Supreme Court Justice Has Ever Been Impeached2.9×7
The Pirate Captain Wasn't Really the BossWhat's working for CGP Grey right now
The channel's typical long-form video gets about 4.4M views. “Pentagons Are Terrible at One Thing” reached 21.9M, roughly 5.0 times that. When one idea outperforms a channel's baseline this much, the audience is telling you the topic and packaging resonated, which makes it worth studying before you plan your next video.
How these scores work
We take the channel's latest long-form uploads (Shorts excluded), find the median view count, and divide each video's views by it. A 5× score means five times the channel's normal performance. Data comes from the public YouTube Data API and refreshes weekly. Last updated November 5, 2026.
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