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Transformation Histories

68,500 subscribers · about 19 months old · ~3.6K subs/month to date ·publishing in English / Global ·Fantasy / Myth, Explainer / Science, Feature Films & Series, Builds / Transformations, Kids / Learning

20tracked breakouts
6.2×best breakout score
144.5×best reach, views per subscriber
39.4Mtotal 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 · 30.3K/day ·82.9× its audience · 17:10 ·2026-04-07 · English / Global

    6.2×
  2. 02

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

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·10.3M views · 71.9K/day ·144.5× its audience · 23:38 ·2026-05-21 · English / Global

    5.9×
  3. 03

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

    🎬 Feature Films & Series ·5.1M views · 30.0K/day ·74.0× its audience · 19:11 ·2026-04-25 · English / Global

    4.2×
  4. 04

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

    🏗 Builds / Transformations ·4.0M views · 22.7K/day ·56.0× its audience · 17:40 ·2026-04-19 · English / Global

    3.6×
  5. 05

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

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·2.8M views · 17.2K/day ·40.4× its audience · 17:40 ·2026-05-03 · English / Global

    2.3×
  6. 06

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

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·1.4M views · 10.2K/day ·20.3× its audience · 17:42 ·2026-05-28 · English / Global

    1.9×
  7. 07

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

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·1.8M views · 14.5K/day ·26.6× its audience · 17:32 ·2026-06-07 · English / Global

    1.7×
  8. 08

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

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·1.2M views · 6.9K/day ·17.3× its audience · 18:52 ·2026-04-22 · English / Global

    0.6×
  9. 09

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

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·1.1M views · 6.9K/day ·15.8× its audience · 18:00 ·2026-05-07 · English / Global

    0.6×
  10. 10

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

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·575.0K views · 3.9K/day ·8.4× its audience · 17:30 ·2026-05-16 · English / Global

    0.5×
  11. 11

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

    🎬 Feature Films & Series ·1.0M views · 6.2K/day ·14.9× its audience · 20:18 ·2026-04-30 · English / Global

    0.5×
  12. 12

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

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·969.8K views · 5.1K/day ·14.2× its audience · 4:16 ·2026-04-03 · English / Global

    0.4×
  13. 13

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

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·645.4K views · 3.5K/day ·9.4× its audience · 8:44 ·2026-04-12 · English / Global

    0.4×
  14. 14

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

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·790.8K views · 4.4K/day ·11.5× its audience · 10:22 ·2026-04-14 · English / Global

    0.4×
  15. 15

    100+ Oldest Iconic Hollywood Stars Ever: Then and Now

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·344.9K views · 2.3K/day ·5.0× its audience · 18:52 ·2026-05-12 · English / Global

    0.3×
  16. 16

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

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·459.7K views · 2.2K/day ·6.7× its audience · 18:02 ·2026-03-16 · English / Global

    0.3×
  17. 17

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

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·442.6K views · 1.9K/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 · 1.5K/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 · 1.7K/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 · 946/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 (about 19 months old) working mainly in Fantasy / Myth, Explainer / Science, Feature Films & Series, Builds / Transformations, Kids / Learning, publishing first in English / Global. The radar tracks 20 of its uploads. Its strongest signal (breakout score 6.2× the dataset median) reaches 144.5× the channel's subscriber count and has averaged 30,349 views a day since it was published 187 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 39,414,678 views between them, the strongest reaching 144.5× 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.

Those are audience numbers, not earnings: the public API returns views and subscribers but never revenue, so nothing on this site can tell you what the channel takes in. To turn an audience size like this one into a money figure under assumptions you set yourself, the YouTube channel value calculator applies an RPM you choose to views the API actually reports — it draws its comparables from the same tracked channels, and it holds no revenue data either.

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 2026-10-11 · 3536 signals · 1334 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.