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For the third week in a row, Lucan Pevidor finished first in the Global Sub Top 50. The Brazilian creator has been on a roll in August, and he rounded out the month by adding two million weekly subscribers. Pevidor’s channel thumbnail image shows him pimping his blinged-out play button, and if he keeps up this pace, he’ll have many more awards to show off in the near future.
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Another Brazilian creator, however, is on our radar this week. Extreme sports content has become a reliable niche for creators all over the world, and as that scene continues to expand, YouTube Shorts is still a powerful outlet for thrill-seeking stars.
YouTube Shorts viewers can’t get enough of freerunning. Why?
Storror and Nick Pro have company, because there’s another freerunner soaring toward the top of the Global Sub Top 50. The upstart in question hails from Brazil, and his high-flying videos can be found on the channel dubbed Walace Freerunner.
Thanks to short-form videos that have him jumping across city parks, streets, and buildings, Walace finished 18th in this week’s subscriber ranking. He added 300,000 weekly subscribers while also surpassing a major viewership milestone. His official channel now counts more than three billion lifetime views.
So we know that Walace Freerunner is doing it big right now. Let’s return to the initial question: Why parkour? What is it about these acrobatic videos that commands so much viewer attention?
Walace has a few things working in his favor. He has the acrobatic ability to portray one of the Shorts community’s favorite superheroes, Spiderman, so he often dons a costume and engages in web-slinging battles. Many of his most-watched Shorts feature his Spiderman impression.
If you ask me, however, the fast pace of Walace’s videos is their strongest selling point. Boiled down to its essence, freerunning is a sport that challenges competitors to get from point A to point B as quickly and directly as possible. In a sense, that’s what Shorts is, too. Plotlines, jokes, and twists have to be compressed as much as possible to appease the typical Shorts viewer and their minimal attention span. That’s why Walace’s videos often feature a literal countdown that keeps the pace flying forward.
That explanation for the freerunning community’s YouTube success is compelling. It acknowledges that time is of the essence, especially for today’s creators. Even outside of the world of extreme sports, the videomakers who act as quickly as possible put themselves in position to rack up viewers.
Take Speed McQueen. When I first covered his channel last year, I characterized him as an opportunist who was taking advantage of a soccer boom ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. But even as Speed McQueen takes an adaptable approach, he never loses sight of his core quality: He likes to go fast. “I feel the need for Speed & Memes,” reads his channel description.
So when Speed McQueen takes on a chocolate-making challenge, he blazes through the steps as quickly as possible. There’s no time to question whether he actually has a cashew plant in his front yard. By the time you start thinking that deeply, the view has already been registered. And McQueen certainly knows how to get in front of an audience. That’s how he got 200,000 new subscribers during the last week of August.
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Attention spans only seem to be getting shorter, so the channels that fly through their videos will find themselves in the best positions to score short-form viewership on YouTube. Logic and narrative are secondary; the afleet approach is paramount.
If that theory holds up, then freerunning could have some company in our charts. Sports like track & field, auto racing, and ice hockey are all defined by athletes who fly forward as quickly as possible. If they can get a camera trained on them as they do that, millions of views and subscribers can follow behind.
Channel Distribution
Here’s a breakdown of the Top 50 Most Viewed channels this week in terms of their countries of origin:
- United States: 10
- India: 7
- Brazil: 6
- Mexico: 4
- Japan: 3
- Argentina and Egypt: 2
- Australia, Cambodia, Colombia, Egypt, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, The Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Turkiye, and United Kingdom: 1
This week, 39 channels in the Top 50 are primarily active on YouTube Shorts.
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