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Thoughty2 YouTube channel stats and outlier videos

Thoughty2 (Arran) is a British YouTuber and gatekeeper of useless facts. Thoughty2 creates mind-blowing factual videos, on the weirdest, wackiest and most interesting topics. Subscribe for new videos every week. -- BOOK --- Get Arran's book: 'Stick a Flag in it: 1,000 years of bizarre history from

Subscribers5.7M
Total views1.2B
Videos1K
Average views per video (est.)442K
CountryGB
LanguageEN (est.)
Created2012-10-12

Best outlier videos

Uploads that beat this channel's own median views, strongest first.

VideoOutlierViewsPublished
The Submarine Disaster That Makes No Sense167×6.1M2026-07-22
Astronomers Can’t Explain This Moon Mystery27×982K2026-09-09
The Wildest Martial Arts Hoax of All Time26×928K2026-09-04
They Survived 15 Years on This Island6.2×226K2026-09-23
The Submarine That Became a Nuclear Bomb4.9×177K2026-09-18
The World's Largest Waterfall Is Actually Underwater4.7×172K2026-09-11
Something Was Very Wrong With the Inca4.7×2.9M2026-05-14
The Medical Discovery Nobody Took Seriously3.4×123K2026-06-03
Colonial India’s Weirdest Truth3.2×122K2025-12-13
Why Two Sleeps Might Be Better Than One3.1×114K2026-09-25

Latest uploads

VideoOutlierViewsPublished
Why Pistol Duels Were Seriously Uncool1.1×41K2026-11-10
The Mad Story Behind the Author of Little Women0.3×13K2026-11-06
What Happened When This Cult Ate Nothing But Fruit?1.1×622K2026-10-23
The $40 Million Mosquito Problem1.9×69K2026-09-30
Why Two Sleeps Might Be Better Than One3.1×114K2026-09-25
They Survived 15 Years on This Island6.2×226K2026-09-23
The Submarine That Became a Nuclear Bomb4.9×177K2026-09-18
The Panama Canal Should Not Be Possible1.5×1.3M2026-09-18
Meet Earth’s Biggest Crocodiles0.8×29K2026-09-16
The World's Largest Waterfall Is Actually Underwater4.7×172K2026-09-11

Repeatable pattern

No title shape stands out across the last 100 uploads of Thoughty2, so results here rest more on the topic of each video.

Content map

What the last 100 indexed uploads look like, by length.

FormatUploadsMedian viewsMedian outlier
Shorts8235K0.9×
Under 20 minutes31.4M2.5×
20 to 60 minutes13605K1.1×
Over 60 minutes21.9M3.1×

Levers to test

  • Under 20 minutes did best here, at 2.5× against 0.9× for shorts. Start with that format.
  • The channel posted about 6.5 uploads a month over its last 30 uploads. Plan a pace you can hold for the same stretch.

These come from the channel's public numbers. They show what went with better results, not what caused them.

Frequently asked questions

How many subscribers does Thoughty2 have?

Thoughty2 has about 5.7M subscribers, from the public count YouTube shows.

How often does Thoughty2 upload?

About 6.5 uploads a month, going by the last 30 indexed uploads.

What is the best recent video from Thoughty2?

"The Submarine Disaster That Makes No Sense" reached 167× the channel's usual views, the strongest of the uploads we hold.

Can I see the age, gender or income of the Thoughty2 audience?

No. YouTube keeps audience details private to the channel owner in YouTube Studio, and the public API does not share them. TubeMind does not guess them.

Public statistics from the official YouTube Data API; averages and multipliers are TubeMind estimates, see how scores work. Open Thoughty2 on YouTube.