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There’s been a big reshuffling in the U.S. Top 100.
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Three of the top five channels in our latest monthly chart are newcomers to that tier. 31 days ago, the #1 U.S.-based channel in the ranking wasn’t even in the top 100.
Chart Toppers
It’s hard to overstate just how quickly DaFuq!?Boom! has grown. The YouTube Shorts hub, which has a wicked sense of humor to match its profane title, wasn’t even on our radar before this month. In March and April, it picked up only a fraction of its 3.7 billion lifetime YouTube views. Most of that viewership came in May, when DaFuq!?Boom! collected 2.8 billion monthly views and reached #1 in the U.S. Top 100. I’ll say this: If the channel’s goal is to get me to say its name every time I look at its viewership numbers, it’s definitely succeeding.
For the first time this year, CoComelon – Nursery Rhymes isn’t in the lead in one of our U.S. Top 100 charts. The California-based animation hub had to settle for second even though it amassed 2.1 billion views during the month that was. DaFuq!?Boom! has gained views at a pace CoComelon can’t match, but the latter channel is still far ahead of its remaining competition. It was one of two U.S.-based channels to snag at least two billion views this month.
Another short-form channel, ViralHog, finished third in this month’s U.S. Top 100. Though you may see some pigs as you peruse this trend aggregator, its vertical videos share funny moments from across the animal kingdom. The internet’s love for fauna is well-known, and it’s driving big viewership for ViralHog. In May, the Shorts hub snapped up 1.37 billion monthly views.
Only one channel in the U.S. top five occupied the same position as it did last month. That hub belongs to Dylan Anderson, who has become a regular in our U.S. Top 100 thanks to his diligent posting schedule and his ability to tug on the heartstrings of his 6.5 million subscribers. His inspirational and charming videos brought 1.36 billion monthly views to his primary YouTube channel during May.
_vector_ just eked past #6 finisher Mavi Gadget to earn the #5 spot in the latest U.S. Top 100. With its library of varied YouTube Shorts uploads, _vector_ counted 1.34 billion monthly views.
Top Gainers
The top two channels in this month’s U.S. Top 100 are both focused on animation, and that’s no coincidence. For a long time, animation struggled to keep up with other categories on YouTube, because its labor-intensive production needs clashed with the whims of the YouTube algorithm.
YouTube Shorts changed everything. Now, animators can keep up with other categories without making super long videos, and to make matters even better, those cartoonists are able to tell stories that can’t exist in the real world.
GameToons, which hit 84th place in this month’s U.S. Top 100, is a perfect case study of this trend. Its most-watched YouTube Shorts clip, like many of its other top videos, references the puzzle game Garten of Bantan. The characters in that game may look grown, but through the power of animation, GameToons imagines baby versions of beloved Garten of Bantan figures.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=U_0Izs1MwNs
As it turns out, a lot of young viewers spend time on YouTube Shorts. As a result, GameToons’ baby-faced pop culture references have struck a chord. In May, the animation hub earned 354.1 million monthly views, which represented a 53% increase over the previous month.
Back in the day, animation channels struggled to reach that level of lifetime traffic. But now, we’re heading into the summer of animation, and it figures to be a fecund season for the internet’s favorite cartoonists.
Channel Distribution
This month, 79 channels in the Top 100 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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