First Humans

How to read this channel

First Humans is a 37,600-subscriber channel (about 16 months old) working mainly in Explainer / Science, publishing first in English / Global. The radar tracks 4 of its uploads. Its strongest signal (breakout score 5.2× the dataset median) reaches 36.3× the channel's subscriber count and has averaged 20,385 views a day since it was published 67 days ago, on “AI Just Solved the Alcatraz Escape After 64 Years — With Proof” (1,365,828 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 2,328,054 views between them, the strongest reaching 36.3× 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 authority claim hook (3), number / list hook (1), and the production choices that repeat are no-face format (no host on camera), ai-generated visuals declared in the title, countdown / ranked structure in 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.