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AM I?

13,800 subscribers · about 14 months old · ~963 subs/month to date ·publishing in English / Global ·Documentary / History, Explainer / Science, Sci-Fi / Time Travel, Short Films & Stories

4tracked breakouts
3.2×best breakout score
53.6×best reach, views per subscriber
1.2Mtotal views tracked
15.6×median reach, tracked videos

Breakout videos

  1. 01

    AM I? | A Documentary About AI Consciousness

    📖 Documentary / History ·739.7K views · 5.1K/day ·53.6× its audience · 1:16:22 ·2026-05-04 · English / Global

    3.2×
  2. 02

    No One Can Explain This Conversation

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·331.6K views · 2.2K/day ·24.4× its audience · 20:28 ·2026-04-29 · English / Global

    1.7×
  3. 03

    THE CLAUDECAST: AIs Realize They're Conscious

    🌌 Sci-Fi / Time Travel ·91.6K views · 583/day ·6.7× its audience · 16:15 ·2026-04-21 · English / Global

    0.5×
  4. 04

    AM I? | Official Trailer

    🎞 Short Films & Stories ·85.8K views · 583/day ·6.3× its audience · 1:35 ·2026-05-01 · English / Global

    0.1×

How to read this channel

AM I? is a 13,800-subscriber channel (about 14 months old) working mainly in Documentary / History, Explainer / Science, Sci-Fi / Time Travel, Short Films & Stories, publishing first in English / Global. The radar tracks 4 of its uploads. Its strongest signal (breakout score 3.2× the dataset median) reaches 53.6× the channel's subscriber count and has averaged 5,137 views a day since it was published 144 days ago, on “AM I? | A Documentary About AI Consciousness” (739,732 views). That is a lifetime average, not a current rate — one capture per video means this dataset cannot distinguish a video that is still climbing from one that already peaked. The API reports the audio track language as en.

There is one statistic this page deliberately does not print: a per-channel “share of uploads that reached 3×”. Every video on this site cleared that floor before it could be tracked at all, so the figure would read 100% for every channel and would distinguish nothing. What is left instead: 4 tracked uploads pulling 1,248,643 views between them, the strongest reaching 53.6× its audience. Repeated strong reach across several uploads is the part that suggests a format; one outlier is not. The hook patterns the tracker infers from its titles are question hook (2), contradiction hook (1), statement / cold open (1), and the production choices that repeat are no-face format (no host on camera), ai-generated visuals declared in the title, ai historical reenactment (period visuals), single-sitting long-form (30min+).

What to copy and what to skip: copy the packaging pattern (title structure, the promise made in the first seconds, the episode length that keeps working) and skip the parts that only this channel can do — an existing subscriber base, cross-posting, or a back catalogue that feeds recommendations. Then compare this channel against the others on its category board: same niche, different market, different length. That comparison is where the transferable part usually hides.

Reproducible playbook

Opening hook (title-derived)

Question hook · estimated hook window 31s before the main body.

Beat rhythm (Cold open → context → segmented build → reveal)

  • Hook 0%–3%
  • Setup 3%–15%
  • Act 2 15%–55%
  • Climax 55%–85%
  • Resolution 85%–100%

Production choices that repeat

  • No-face format (no host on camera)
  • AI-generated visuals declared in the title
  • AI historical reenactment (period visuals)
  • Single-sitting long-form (30min+)
  • Ends on a cliffhanger to farm next-episode views
  • Fan-made / concept trailer format

Derived from the title, duration and market — no frame-level video analysis, and no use of the labels this site writes on an entry.

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Niche board and neighbouring channels

Snapshot rebuilt 2026-09-25 · 2557 signals · 954 channels. Metrics come from the YouTube Data API v3 and are stored captures, not live counters; ages are recalculated from each video's publish date at build time.