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WEDNESDAY, 21 OCTOBER 20261,989 channels on the wireFree edition

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Fireship

4.3M subscribers. This is what normal looks like here — measured, so you know instantly when it isn't.

91 days of measured history · 55 videos tracked

Key facts

914Kmedian @ 24h
1.5Mmedian @ 7 days
4.1×hottest recent

last 10 uploads vs baseline

The breakout multiplier is a Contentine Brief calculation from public view counts — not a YouTube metric, and not endorsed or provided by YouTube.

1.5× Did Google just dethrone OpenAI and Anthropic?
2026-10-20
1.4M
0.8× The runtime wars are over... and Node won
2026-10-15
1.1M
1.1× OpenAI’s lead engineer was secretly a spy...
2026-10-14
1.7M
4.1× Every app on Earth is now open source... whether it likes it or not
2026-10-12
6.2M
1.0× A $6.3 billion open-weight model just got embarrassed by the French...
2026-10-07
1.5M
1.5× PewDiePie is setting AI free... and OpenAI is furious
2026-10-05
2.2M
1.1× The one OpenAI announcement that can actually make you money...
2026-10-01
1.7M
0.6× Did a 50 year old military secret just solve agent prompt injection?
2026-09-30
855.1K
1.3× DHH has gone completely off the rails...
2026-09-28
2M
1.0× Meta is pivoting again... everything you missed from Connect 2026
2026-09-25
1.5M

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