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2026 could bring all sorts of changes to YouTube’s top tier, but for now, the current year is looking similar to 2025. Translation: It’s still a good time to be a member of Double Date.
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The Australian couple channel finished #2 in the latest Global Top 50 after collecting a tad more than two billion weekly views. It is bookended by the two couple pairs that compose its cast: Cadel and Mia claimed the #1 spot by pulling in a whopping 3.07 billion weekly views, and their buddies Jasmin and James rounded out the leading trifecta by tallying 1.76 billion weekly views.
The path to a YouTube Short viewer’s click goes through their stomach
Speaking of things that haven’t changed since 2025, Shorts viewers still love KPop Demon Hunters. Five different channels in the current Global Top 50 reference KPop or Demon Hunters characters in their titles and descriptions.
We’ve already written at length about the shockwaves KPop Demon Hunters has sent through short-form culture. The Netflix original is clearly the most impactful animated film of the year, and on January 11, Golden Globes voters showed that they agreed with that sentiment.
There was one particular line from Co-Director Maggie Kang‘s acceptance speech that caught my attention. “We really wanted to depict female characters the way that we know women,” Kang said, “which is really strong and bold, really silly and weird, and really hungry for food.”
That may seem like a throwaway joke in a well-rehearsed speech, but could it tell us something about the current YouTube Shorts landscape? The same viewers who are uplifting KPop Demon Hunters content are also eager to get their grub on, and a few Global Top 50 entrants are catching on.
Take, for example, Loveneet Valecha, an Indian creator who operates outside the KPop Demon Hunters sphere. Like many of his compatriots, Valecha’s channel is defined by its familial themes and its homespun skits. In some of those skits, Valecha puts a spin on typical Indian family content by sharing some of his personal recipes. And as fate would have it, those videos rank among Valecha’s most popular Shorts uploads.
There’s a simple premise behind this subgenre of cooking content. Indian creators often strive for universal themes in their family videos, and nothing is more universal than the desire for yummy snacks.
Twin Twin is another channel incorporating food within a family-friendly context. Videos that serve as simple, translatable life lessons are accented through the inclusion of tasty fruits, sandwiches, and beverages. Mealtime is used to teach kids that sharing is caring, and strawberry-picking adventures turn into morals about the importance of washing produce.
The kids eat up these videos like ripe strawberries. Twin Twin reached 28th place in the Global Top 50 by picking up 536.5 million weekly views. That was good for a 42% increase, and Twin Twin surpassed two million subscribers this week as well. Over the past three months, everything has been going up for these hungry kids and their parents.
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So as silly as Kang’s Golden Globes acceptance speech joke may be, there’s a kernel of truth to it. Well-fed viewers are happier viewers, and everyone from kids to adults seems to be going to Shorts in search of new culinary concoctions. Adding food content to family videos may soon become a rising trend for creators — at least until viewers start attempting to eat the screen.
Channel Distribution
Here’s a breakdown of the Top 50 Most Viewed channels this week in terms of their countries of origin:
- India: 17
- Indonesia and United States: 6
- Hong Kong: 3
- Australia, Canada, Egypt, South Korea, and Taiwan: 2
- Bangladesh, China, Germany, Peru, Russia, Spain, and Vietnam: 1
This week, 40 channels in the Top 50 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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