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Year: what's breaking out on YouTube now

Right now 8 Game Dev videos about "year" are breaking out — each running well above its own channel's normal, across 7 different channels. The biggest is 15.7x its channel baseline; the average across these breakouts is 6.0x.

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Updated 2026-08-20 03:10 UTC

Breakouts mentioning “year”

01 15.7× My Five Year Indie Game Launched. My Mind Is Blow Thomas Brush · 36.4K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 2.3K · 1 DAY AGO 02 9.0× the real McCoy shares how her clone makes $3M/year Julia McCoy · 86K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 9.6K · 33 DAYS AGO 03 4.9× This 24-Year-Old AI Billionaire Just Bet $8.5B Against Nvidia Invest with Henry · 47.4K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 9.7K · 45 DAYS AGO 04 4.7× HCLTech Breaks 30-Year Rule With Massive ₹14,257 Cr AI Data Center Bet AIM Network · 8.1K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 1.7K · 6 DAYS AGO 05 3.6× How should you invest in the 2nd half of 2026? | COL Mid-Year Market Outlook 2026 COL Financial Group, Inc. · 8.1K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 2.2K · 39 DAYS AGO 06 3.5× A Nobody Quietly Released One of The Best Indie Games of the Year Dev Dream Pod with Blake Gocey · 13.2K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 3.8K · 45 DAYS AGO 07 3.4× My 5 YEAR Game Launches At Noon ET.... PLEASE I Need You To Do Something For Me Thomas Brush · 16.9K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 5K · 2 DAYS AGO 08 3.2× He’s Making Over $100K/Year Cash Flow by ONLY Buying $100K Houses BiggerPockets · 19K VIEWS · NORMAL ≈ 5.9K · 17 DAYS AGO

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