Every recent long-form upload, scored against the channel's own median. These are the videos the audience pushed far past normal. Updated weekly.

The First FDA Approved Muscle Growth Drug Is Here! Here’s the Catch.4.3×3
Exercise Scientist Critiques the 400-Pound Arm Wrestling Monster: Levan Saginashvili3.1×4
Exercise Scientist Critiques the No-Training Steroid Experiment2.7×5
How to Build the Most Attractive Body, According to Science2.6×6
Exercise Scientist Critiques The Real Anatoly2.6×7The channel's typical long-form video gets about 370K views. “Exercise Scientist Critiques Anatoly’s Viral Janitor Lifting Pranks” reached 3.0M, roughly 8.0 times that. Among this channel's outliers, the most common title formats are question (2), how-to (1). 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.
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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