Breakout Signal

Channel profile · tracked by Breakout Signal

ethan

20,600 subscribers · about 24 months old · ~858 subs/month to date ·publishing in English / Global ·Horror / Thriller

1tracked breakouts
0.2×best breakout score
3.2×best reach, views per subscriber
65.7Ktotal views tracked
3.2×median reach, tracked videos

Breakout videos

  1. 01

    AI Attacks Humans | Sci-Fi Cosmic Horror Film

    🩸 Horror / Thriller ·65.7K views · 375/day ·3.2× its audience · 6:04 ·2026-04-03 · English / Global

    0.2×

How to read this channel

ethan is a 20,600-subscriber channel (about 24 months old) working mainly in Horror / Thriller, publishing first in English / Global. The radar tracks 1 of its uploads. Its strongest signal (breakout score 0.2× the dataset median) reaches 3.2× the channel's subscriber count and has averaged 375 views a day since it was published 175 days ago, on “AI Attacks Humans | Sci-Fi Cosmic Horror Film” (65,683 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: this channel has a single tracked upload so far, and it has pulled 65,683 views. Treat a one-video channel as a topic signal, not as proof of a repeatable format. The hook patterns the tracker infers from its titles are 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.

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)

Statement / cold open · estimated hook window 12s before the main body.

Beat rhythm (Eerie setup → dread build → reveal)

  • Hook 0%–6%
  • Context 6%–20%
  • Escalation 20%–60%
  • Turn 60%–85%
  • Close 85%–100%

Production choices that repeat

  • No-face format (no host on camera)
  • AI-generated visuals declared in the title

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.