# ABSTRACT: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

Markdown version of https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@abstract/videos/ from vidIQ YouTube Stats. Link to that page, not to this file.

As of 2026-10-26, ABSTRACT has 633,000 subscribers, 30,848,621 total views, and 11 videos. It ranks #119,850 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [ABSTRACT](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@abstract/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for ABSTRACT is “Footbinding: A History”, a long-form video published Jul 18, 2026.
- These are ABSTRACT’s 11 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Jun 28, 2021 and Jul 18, 2026 (10 long-form videos and 1 Short).
- Median views across these 11 uploads: 2,659,405. 5 videos are above that median and 5 below, and 1 is equal to it.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Buried Alive: the Nutty Putty Cave Incident” (10,266,942 views, Jun 28, 2021). Least viewed: “10 May 2024” (22,964 views, May 10, 2024).
- Median length: 39:19 for 10 long-form videos.
- In this sample, ABSTRACT’s consecutive uploads were a median of 147 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 508 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 27, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Footbinding: A History](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@abstract/videos/s5yGtudHscg/) | 2026-07-18 | Long-form | 615,998 | 1:30:42 | 3.91x |
| [The 9/11 Flight That Fought Back](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@abstract/videos/eDOxhrqw5Tk/) | 2025-02-25 | Long-form | 2,800,519 | 1:20:43 | 1.03x |
| [Unmasking a Killer Serial Arsonist](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@abstract/videos/lFUTB48dSd8/) | 2024-05-10 | Long-form | 2,777,648 | 1:25:12 | 1.04x |
| [10 May 2024](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@abstract/videos/WkEUA4QhlOQ/) | 2024-05-10 | Short | 22,964 | 0:28 | - |
| [The Horrors of Becoming Lost](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@abstract/videos/1hMEo-OQlCM/) | 2023-11-09 | Long-form | 3,616,070 | 48:36 | 1.48x |
| [The Family That Vanished](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@abstract/videos/SUllVJbMQ0Q/) | 2023-07-07 | Long-form | 2,155,608 | 33:01 | 1x |
| [The 3 Sailors Trapped in the USS West Virginia](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@abstract/videos/a0YWkHZ4toA/) | 2023-03-11 | Long-form | 1,281,434 | 42:51 | 0.61x |
| [The Hike That Killed Five Schoolboys](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@abstract/videos/ZjjgpiDmVCw/) | 2022-09-24 | Long-form | 3,136,748 | 35:47 | 19.9x |
| [The World's Deadliest Roller Coaster Crash](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@abstract/videos/mc47BN0_80I/) | 2022-06-10 | Long-form | 1,517,136 | 12:04 | 9.63x |
| [Helios Flight 522: How a Single Switch Killed 121 Passengers](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@abstract/videos/X_Rr6-HV3as/) | 2022-05-13 | Long-form | 2,659,405 | 23:03 | 16.87x |
| [Buried Alive: the Nutty Putty Cave Incident](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@abstract/videos/d1nuqpAULpE/) | 2021-06-28 | Long-form | 10,266,942 | 15:38 | 65.15x |

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