Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell'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.
AI Just Crossed the Terrifying Line - Now What?
This Woman Cured Her Cancer with an Insane Method3.2×3
SOUTH KOREA IS OVER2.4×4
The Most Insane Weapon You Never Heard About2.2×5
Why Does Fentanyl Feel So Good?2.1×6
We Have To Talk About Weed2.0×7
We Finally Know More About Humanity’s First CivilizationWhat's working for Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell right now
The channel's typical long-form video gets about 6.7M views. “AI Just Crossed the Terrifying Line - Now What?” reached 23.6M, roughly 3.5 times that. Among this channel's outliers, the most common title formats are question (2), personal story (2). 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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