Yes Theory'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.
Exploring the World's Largest $100 Billion Failed Ghost City (why did nobody move here?)
"he's crazy" - We Found a Man Living Alone in the Amazon (39 years isolated)3.2×3
Exploring the Paranoid Country with 374,142 Bunkers to Hide Everyone (how is this possible?)3.0×4
50 hours in a Secret Russian town in America2.9×5
Inside Japan's Illegal Drifting Underworld - TOKYO DRIFT2.3×6
"He's not human" - The Most Isolated Man in the World1.8×7What's working for Yes Theory right now
The channel's typical long-form video gets about 3.2M views. “Exploring the World's Largest $100 Billion Failed Ghost City (why did nobody move here?)” reached 10.7M, roughly 3.3 times that. Among this channel's outliers, the most common title formats are expose/reveal (2), listicle (1), personal story (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.
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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