# Cole Hastings: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-27, Cole Hastings has 883,000 subscribers, 99,512,691 total views, and 639 videos. It ranks #84,426 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Cole Hastings](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/). 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 Cole Hastings is “Gen Z's Credit Card Debt Crisis”, a long-form video published Oct 25, 2026.
- These are Cole Hastings’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between May 1, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026 (22 long-form videos and 26 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 63,909. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Solarpunk Is Gen Z's Future” (785,816 views, Jul 12, 2026). Least viewed: “Tools For Becoming A Writing Pro” (3,421 views, Jun 13, 2026).
- Median length: 17:21 for 22 long-form videos; 1:45 for 26 Shorts.
- In this sample, Cole Hastings’s consecutive uploads were a median of 3 days apart (shortest gap 1 day, longest 12 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Gen Z's Credit Card Debt Crisis](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/A1ozq3017PU/) | 2026-10-25 | Long-form | 174,537 | 25:16 | 1.32x |
| [Why Old Fiction Books Feel More Relevant Than Ever](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/NKBtmLhTAMA/) | 2026-10-23 | Short | 22,048 | 1:42 | 1.7x |
| [Why Gen Z Is Disappearing From The Internet](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/Cy43kzdbmSo/) | 2026-10-18 | Long-form | 305,630 | 20:58 | 1.92x |
| [Why Fiction Portrays Ambition So Well](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/nsT_4wnDP6s/) | 2026-10-16 | Short | 26,358 | 1:29 | 1.22x |
| [Why Nobody Cares How They Make Money Anymore](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/jLW1MGho-Co/) | 2026-10-11 | Long-form | 125,273 | 21:31 | 0.68x |
| [Why Fiction Books Make You See People Differently](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/kGbbqwbL2gE/) | 2026-10-09 | Short | 22,508 | 1:46 | 1.02x |
| [Gen Z's Bad Friend Epidemic](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/6DibUqlajyE/) | 2026-10-04 | Long-form | 267,174 | 18:45 | 0.98x |
| [What Fiction Teaches Us About Human Nature](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/LQ-PNk6HdBs/) | 2026-10-02 | Short | 21,275 | 2:03 | - |
| [The Affordability Crisis](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/E_k9I9XonOk/) | 2026-09-27 | Long-form | 482,113 | 25:55 | 1.33x |
| [Why Fiction Transports You To A Different Time](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/dx9DBKgv5cU/) | 2026-09-25 | Short | 25,062 | 1:47 | 1.06x |
| [Why Does Everything Feel Like It's Collapsing?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/4Sj4p-yYgqw/) | 2026-09-13 | Long-form | 124,465 | 17:41 | 0.52x |
| [Why Fiction Teaches Philosophy Better Than Philosophy Itself](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/We6708JnGYU/) | 2026-09-04 | Short | 170,671 | 2:03 | 6.77x |
| [The AI Midwit Epidemic](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/d84mtbzRA8w/) | 2026-09-01 | Long-form | 303,357 | 13:47 | 0.84x |
| [Why Fiction Books Embrace Ambiguity](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/H71CNv7ApcY/) | 2026-08-28 | Short | 27,626 | 1:59 | 1.13x |
| [Gen Z's Morality Crisis](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/xcQGtDmHKmc/) | 2026-08-23 | Long-form | 114,501 | 15:45 | - |
| [My Favorite Books Of The Year So Far](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/PQ5nPyCvEPQ/) | 2026-08-21 | Short | 48,865 | 2:57 | 2.3x |
| [Why Everything Is Slop Now](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/iqokUOGmeag/) | 2026-08-16 | Long-form | 114,919 | 13:06 | - |
| [Why Does Fiction Explain Human Nature So Well?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/FTX4SiOjZlI/) | 2026-08-14 | Short | 22,796 | 2:00 | 1.72x |
| [Why Fiction Books Communicate Truths So Well](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/hBLcA7X8ON8/) | 2026-08-10 | Short | 16,484 | 1:58 | 1.52x |
| [AI Is On Its Last Legs](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/zdsoe_OsnHw/) | 2026-08-09 | Long-form | 741,705 | 15:09 | 1.77x |
| [The Male Beauty Crisis](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/TiwecK1CWyE/) | 2026-08-02 | Long-form | 115,977 | 19:14 | - |
| [Why Fiction Books Embrace Contradiction](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/rvxnY7uUGzY/) | 2026-07-31 | Short | 57,552 | 1:42 | 5.34x |
| [How To Become A Masterful Storyteller](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/3rTEjif_w3Y/) | 2026-07-29 | Short | 3,610 | 0:35 | - |
| [The College System Is About To Collapse](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/4Sla1k3Rwu4/) | 2026-07-26 | Long-form | 423,132 | 18:29 | 1.43x |
| [Are We The Last Generation To Read?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/1on9Yu8_I3Y/) | 2026-07-24 | Short | 77,138 | 1:48 | 6.39x |
| [Why Gen Z Doesn't Want To Work](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/IHduoXBZ3eU/) | 2026-07-19 | Long-form | 474,338 | 15:59 | 1.97x |
| [Why Fiction Hits Harder Than Self-Help](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/1OEikmWLtNw/) | 2026-07-17 | Short | 9,671 | 1:52 | - |
| [Solarpunk Is Gen Z's Future](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/9YiBEXoP_p4/) | 2026-07-12 | Long-form | 785,816 | 17:40 | 4.03x |
| [Would Men Be Less Lonely If They Read Fiction?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/JLValXFFibw/) | 2026-07-10 | Short | 14,983 | 1:13 | 1.1x |
| [The Gen Z Optimism Era](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/kREGhzV_glQ/) | 2026-07-05 | Long-form | 174,051 | 21:07 | 1x |
| [How Can Fiction Change Your Life?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/RSxrujU0IWc/) | 2026-07-03 | Short | 12,175 | 1:45 | - |
| [Gen Z's Peptide Epidemic](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/tuKtjarrr-E/) | 2026-06-28 | Long-form | 497,832 | 16:16 | 2.87x |
| [Publishing My First Novel - Day 19](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/kExS8VpPFFQ/) | 2026-06-26 | Short | 6,115 | 1:51 | - |
| [Why Does This Happen When I Read?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/0CxxA1IWDxo/) | 2026-06-19 | Short | 4,874 | 1:26 | - |
| [Gen Z Men Are Facing A Friendship Crisis](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/PHm3SZDHunU/) | 2026-06-14 | Long-form | 61,513 | 19:09 | - |
| [Tools For Becoming A Writing Pro](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/yZZge_V_W8k/) | 2026-06-13 | Short | 3,421 | 0:35 | - |
| [The Power Of Hope in Fiction Books](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/QYeao9H6WnI/) | 2026-06-12 | Short | 11,891 | 1:49 | - |
| [The Male Reading Crisis](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/B3lPguEvVZU/) | 2026-06-07 | Long-form | 130,178 | 15:08 | 0.75x |
| [Writing My First Novel - Day 513](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/N3Ml3lzmzs4/) | 2026-06-05 | Short | 16,832 | 1:38 | - |
| [Writing My First Novel - Day 506](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/F5lFkHWmk-s/) | 2026-05-29 | Short | 18,889 | 1:44 | 1x |
| [Why Gen Z Will Start The Next Revolution](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/3MfsBH32n2g/) | 2026-05-25 | Long-form | 416,559 | 17:03 | 2.07x |
| [Writing My First Novel - Day 499](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/MeykoFI_6L0/) | 2026-05-22 | Short | 14,389 | 1:15 | - |
| [Why Going Offline Isn't Realistic Anymore](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/Qta1LNJ1uTU/) | 2026-05-17 | Long-form | 94,532 | 14:31 | - |
| [Writing My First Novel - Day 492](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/sc0bw2D1ZHA/) | 2026-05-15 | Short | 15,968 | 1:49 | - |
| [Gen Z Has A Stalking Problem](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/ib_EoOvIguI/) | 2026-05-10 | Long-form | 66,305 | 13:50 | - |
| [Writing My First Novel - Day 485](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/T81qcLOJt9I/) | 2026-05-08 | Short | 18,853 | 1:34 | - |
| [Gen Z Inherited A Scam Economy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/bn_1Tji35fk/) | 2026-05-05 | Long-form | 306,327 | 15:59 | 2x |
| [Writing My First Novel - Day 478](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@colehastings/videos/1oT2734OjSM/) | 2026-05-01 | Short | 155,094 | 1:32 | 6.32x |

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