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Transformation Histories

68,500 subscribers ·publishing in English / Global ·Fantasy / Myth, Explainer / Science, Builds / Transformations, Feature Films & Series, Kids / Learning

20tracked breakouts
7.0×best breakout score
124.0×best reach, views per subscriber
37.6Mtotal views tracked
14.5×median reach, tracked videos

Breakout videos

  1. 01

    100+ Iconic Hollywood Stars: Then and Now (Age 60+)

    🧙 Fantasy / Myth ·5.7M views · 33.2K/day ·82.9× its audience · 17:10 ·2026-04-07 · English / Global

    7.0×
  2. 02

    100+ Iconic Hollywood Actresses (70s–90s): Then and Now

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·8.5M views · 66.9K/day ·124.0× its audience · 23:38 ·2026-05-21 · English / Global

    6.3×
  3. 03

    100+ Iconic Hollywood Stars: Then and Now (Age 60+) Part 2

    🏗 Builds / Transformations ·3.9M views · 24.7K/day ·56.7× its audience · 17:40 ·2026-04-19 · English / Global

    4.5×
  4. 04

    100+ Iconic TV Series Stars (70s–90s): Then and Now + Bonus 2000s

    🎬 Feature Films & Series ·5.1M views · 33.1K/day ·74.0× its audience · 19:11 ·2026-04-25 · English / Global

    4.1×
  5. 05

    100+ Iconic Hollywood Stars Who Passed Away | Then and Now Tribute

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·2.8M views · 19.1K/day ·40.4× its audience · 17:40 ·2026-05-03 · English / Global

    2.6×
  6. 06

    100+ Iconic Hollywood Actors (70s–90s): Then and Now

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·1.4M views · 11.6K/day ·20.3× its audience · 17:42 ·2026-05-28 · English / Global

    2.2×
  7. 07

    100+ Iconic Hollywood Stars Who Passed Away | Then and Now Tribute Part 2

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·1.8M views · 16.6K/day ·26.6× its audience · 17:32 ·2026-06-07 · English / Global

    1.9×
  8. 08

    100+ Iconic Hollywood Stars of the 90s–00s: Then and Now (Age 45–59)

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·1.2M views · 7.6K/day ·17.3× its audience · 18:52 ·2026-04-22 · English / Global

    0.7×
  9. 09

    100+ Hollywood Beauty Icons (20th Century): Then and Now

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·1.1M views · 7.7K/day ·15.8× its audience · 18:00 ·2026-05-07 · English / Global

    0.7×
  10. 10

    100+ Top Actors from the Highest-Rated Movies: Then and Now (Age 55+)

    🎬 Feature Films & Series ·1.0M views · 6.9K/day ·14.9× its audience · 20:18 ·2026-04-30 · English / Global

    0.6×
  11. 11

    100+ Iconic TV Show Stars (70s–90s): Then and Now

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·575.0K views · 4.4K/day ·8.4× its audience · 17:30 ·2026-05-16 · English / Global

    0.6×
  12. 12

    25 Most Beautiful Actresses of the 1990s: Then and Now

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·969.8K views · 5.5K/day ·14.2× its audience · 4:16 ·2026-04-03 · English / Global

    0.5×
  13. 13

    50+ Most Handsome Actors 50s-90s: Then and Now

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·645.4K views · 3.9K/day ·9.4× its audience · 8:44 ·2026-04-12 · English / Global

    0.5×
  14. 14

    Most Beautiful Actresses Every Year (1950–2010): Then and Now 2026

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·790.8K views · 4.8K/day ·11.5× its audience · 10:22 ·2026-04-14 · English / Global

    0.5×
  15. 15

    100+ Oldest Iconic Hollywood Stars Ever: Then and Now

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·344.9K views · 2.5K/day ·5.0× its audience · 18:52 ·2026-05-12 · English / Global

    0.4×
  16. 16

    100+ Most Beautiful Actresses: Then and Now (Age 50-104)

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·459.7K views · 2.4K/day ·6.7× its audience · 18:02 ·2026-03-16 · English / Global

    0.4×
  17. 17

    100+ Most Famous Actors: Then and Now (Age 65+) 2026

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·442.6K views · 2.0K/day ·6.5× its audience · 20:26 ·2026-02-19 · English / Global

    0.3×
  18. 18

    100+ Most Famous Actors: Then and Now (Age 60-100) | 70s–90s

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·289.3K views · 1.7K/day ·4.2× its audience · 23:47 ·2026-04-03 · English / Global

    0.3×
  19. 19

    100+ Oldest Famous Actors: Then and Now (Alive in 2026)

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·411.5K views · 1.9K/day ·6.0× its audience · 20:08 ·2026-02-15 · English / Global

    0.3×
  20. 20

    100+ Famous Hollywood Actors and Their Children 2026

    🧸 Kids / Learning ·218.5K views · 1.0K/day ·3.2× its audience · 19:03 ·2026-02-22 · English / Global

    0.2×

How to read this channel

Transformation Histories is a 68,500-subscriber channel working mainly in Fantasy / Myth, Explainer / Science, Builds / Transformations, Feature Films & Series, Kids / Learning, publishing first in English / Global. The radar tracks 20 of its uploads. Its strongest signal (breakout score 7.0× the dataset median) reaches 124.0× the channel's subscriber count and has averaged 33,189 views a day since it was published 171 days ago, on “100+ Iconic Hollywood Stars: Then and Now (Age 60+)” (5,675,304 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: 20 tracked uploads pulling 37,585,853 views between them, the strongest reaching 124.0× 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 statement / cold open (18), curiosity gap hook (2), and the production choices that repeat are no-face format (no host on camera), episodic series / numbered parts, ends on a cliffhanger to farm next-episode views.

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 16s before the main body.

Beat rhythm (Cold open → setup → act 2 → climax → resolution)

  • Hook 0%–4%
  • Context 4%–18%
  • Escalation 18%–55%
  • Peak 55%–82%
  • Close 82%–100%

Production choices that repeat

  • No-face format (no host on camera)
  • Episodic series / numbered parts
  • Ends on a cliffhanger to farm next-episode views

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.