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Last week, there were no changes to report in our U.S. Top 50. This week, the top five positions in the ranking have been scrambled, but its the same five channels that find themselves in those spots.
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And there’s still no change at #1, where a family-friendly hub continues to roll along.
The Top 5
Toys and Colors has now gone a month without falling out of the top spot in the U.S. Top 50. The channel’s expansion has been stimulated by its multiformat approach to YouTube and its affiliation with the growth-oriented media company pocket.watch. Thanks in part to that alliance, Toys and Colors picked up 689.9 million weekly views during the second week of September. It has a lot of company; there are three other early education hubs in the top ten of our all-American ranking.
🥈 J House jr. has been right behind Toys and Colors for three consecutive weeks. This time, the family-friendly channel cemented its spot in the U.S. Top by raising its traffic 12% week-over-week. With that increase, it held off other surging channels, counted 662.4 million weekly views, and pushed its lifetime YouTube view count above ten billion. Much of that traffic has come in 2024, as J House jr. has been one of the breakout hits of the year on Shorts. Will its hot streak continue now that kids are back in school?
🥉 MrBeast enjoyed a massive viewership boost as he moved up to third place in the U.S. Top 50. One week after ranking fifth, Jimmy Donaldson saw traffic go up by 41% on his primary YouTube channel. That boost brought MrBeast up to a tally of 574.9 million weekly views. Donaldson’s main hub has a chance to cross 60 billion lifetime views before the end of September. Even if it falls just short of that goal, the most-subscribed channel on YouTube has plenty of other accomplishments under its belt.
🌟 Dylan Anderson is one of the more consistent creators in the U.S. Top 50 ranking. Week in and week out, Anderson hovers close to the top of the chart as other channels shift around him. He just finished fourth in the U.S. Top 50 for the third week in a row, and his consistent approach to Shorts — he locates and comments on the format’s hit videos — is a big reason for his continued success. He collected 452.8 million weekly views during the second week of September thanks to a week-over-week uptick of 7%
✨ Zach D. Films finished third in the U.S. Top 50 a week ago, but during our most recent seven-day measurement period, his viewership dropped down to fifth in the U.S. His main YouTube channel recorded 411.7 million weekly views.
Top Gainers
Brace yourself — the skibidis are back. It turns out that human heads popping out of toilets is not just a 2023 thing, and the latest iteration of the meme is as hard to decipher as ever.
Much of the previous lore of the skibidi toilet phenomenon played out on DaFuq!?Boom!, the channel helmed by the meme’s inventor. Alexey “Boom” Gerasimov still pilots his profanely-named channel into the Top 50 from time to time, but a channel called BigStudio recently found a new way to propagate skibidi toilet memes on YouTube Shorts.
The simplest explanation for BigStudio is that the channel’s Shorts inject viewer choice into the skibidi story. No longer do fans have to sit back and watch the conflict between the electronic-headed heroes and toilet-headed villains. Now they can participate in it themselves by either liking or commenting on BigStudio content to select one of two video outcomes.
To actually convey what it’s like to watch a BigStudio video, well, you’re just going to have to see one for yourself. Somehow, this all seems par for the course as far as skibidi is concerned.
And who would have thunk it: All of those viewer likes and comments are adding. BigStudio has received strong, organic growth on YouTube Shorts, and it is now representing its particular corner of the meme-verse in the U.S. Top 50. During the second week of September, BigStudio collected 105.2 million weekly views. That was good for an 118% week-over-week bump that pushed BigStudio from 72nd place in the U.S. up to 47th.
BigStudio may not be Boom, but the channel is making its own contributions to skibidi lore. Hopefully Michael Bay saved a place for this hub in his upcoming adaptation of the skibidi universe.
Channel Distribution
This week, there are 40 YouTube Shorts channels in the U.S. Top 50.
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