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The top three channels in the Global Sub Top 50 are in a league of their own. They all added one million new subscribers during the last full week of March, while only one other channel even managed to get with 50% of that benchmark.
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MrBeast and Alejo Igoa are the subscriber chart stalwarts who are once again using big-budget videos to reach hundreds of millions of fans. This week, they’re joined in the seven-digit club by Like Nastya, a long-running family channel that will be familiar to longtime readers of this column.
Drawing is becoming a top draw on YouTube Shorts
Move over, sketch comedy: The hot new category on YouTube Shorts is just…sketching.
That’s one of the main themes I noticed in this week’s Global Sub Top 50, where several channels related to drawing, crafts, and creativity cracked the ranking. Though those channels utilize some of the most common tricks we see among top-performing Shorts hubs — such as faceless presentation and use of viral music cues — their videos are delightfully analog in a world defined by digital systems.
OK, I’m getting a bit carried away, because we don’t actually see much of the drawing on channels like DrawUshko. The results, however, are compelling 2D creations that lack the uncanny valley nature of AI-generated animations. And the kids love it: DrawUshko finished 16th in the Global Sub Top 50 after adding 370,000 new subscribers during the week that was.
The success of DrawUshko is a reminder of Gen Alpha’s unbridled creativity, especially as it relates to memes and other pop culture categories. Top brainrot characters have been depicted in Roblox games, and now they’re being drawn by hand on YouTube Shorts.
If you’re more in the mood for a drawing channel that actually depicts the coloring-in of its images, Stationery Pal is your best friend. Apparently, if you want to make the purple paint required to give KPop Demon Hunters star Rumi her signature hair, all you need is a little 6-7.
As long as Roblox continues to be a thing, channels like Stationery Pal will continue to draw big crowds. The sandbox platform has forged a link between memes and artistic expression, and the ripple effect from that trend has lifted everyone from Brazilians to pen-and-paper artists. That’s why Stationery Pal just hauled in its biggest weekly viewership total of 2026.
Data via Gospel Stats
Will things look different in 2027? Or will YouTube Shorts still be dominated by diverse depictions of Rumi and silly references to Skibidi Toilet?
Those questions are hard to answer, but they also help explain why drawing channels are so well-positioned. Whatever the next big pop culture meme ends up being, creators like DrawUshko will be able to capitalize on it — and all they’ll need is pens and paper.
Channel Distribution
Here’s a breakdown of the Top 50 Most Viewed channels this week in terms of their countries of origin:
- India: 11
- United States: 10
- Brazil and Hong Kong: 4
- Indonesia and Japan: 3
- Argentina: 2
- Australia, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, Italy, Kazakhstan, Mexico, and Taiwan: 1
This week, 35 channels in the Top 50 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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