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KIMPRO‘s weekly viewership is still at elite levels — or should I say 1337? The Korean short-form channel received 1.337 billion weekly views to reach the apex of our Global Top 50 while also making old-school internet hax0rs quite happy (iykyk).
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Memes aside, it was a thoroughly competitive week in the Global Top 50. Channels needed at least 350 million weekly views to make the cut, and we’ve used the space below to highlight a few of the most impressive jumps we saw during the last week of September.
Can AI Jesus keep the honmoon sealed?
If you have young kids in your household, you won’t be surprised to hear that Kpop Demon Hunters is still one of the biggest things on the internet. Months after the Sony Pictures-produced, Netflix-distributed animated flick made a splash in the movie world and on the pop charts, creators inspired by it are still picking up hundreds of millions of weekly views.
The channel representing the KPop Demon Hunters fandom in this week’s Global Top 50 is Rumi and Demon, which already has nearly one million subscribers even though it only published its first video earlier this month. As its name implies, the channel is inspired by the lilac-haired protagonist of Kpop Demon Hunters, as well as her biggest secret (I would say “spoiler alert,” but given how ubiquitous this movie is, if you don’t know the main twists by now, I can’t protect you.)
Rumi and Demon videos harness the titular characters popularity by placing an impersonator into scenarios that require silly (and occasionally demonic) solutions. It’s a means of drafting off the popularity of KPop Demon Hunters while also playing to the large audience of comedy fans on YouTube Shorts, and it’s working. Rumi and Demon reached 22nd place in the Global Top 50 with 584.8 million weekly views.
Last time we talked about Kpop Demon Hunters, there were some devilish channels mixed in with the more straightforward fan accounts. This week, however, there are no such hubs to be found in the Global Top 50. Did the other major animated star of the week — AI-generated versions of Jesus Christ of Nazareth — banish the Kpop evildoers from the charts?
For as big as Kpop Demon Hunters is, AI Jesus is arguably even bigger. He is represented in this week’s Global Top 50 by a Danish channel called AI_Animation_Jesus_and_God. Bonus points for descriptiveness on that one. Even though this AI Jesus factory didn’t exist this time last year, it is all the way up in 20th place in the Global Top 50 thanks to its 613.3 million weekly views.
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The leading trio of Kpop Demon Hunters was already powerful to begin with, but if the girls now have AI God and Jesus on their side, will anyone be able to stop them? The honmoon figures to remain sealed for now, and these animated chart toppers show no signs of abandoning their positions.
Channel Distribution
Here’s a breakdown of the Top 50 Most Viewed channels this week in terms of their countries of origin:
- India: 17
- United States: 12
- Indonesia: 4
- Canada: 3
- Australia and Pakistan: 2
- Belgium, China, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Turkey, and Vietnam: 1
This week, 39 channels in the Top 50 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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