# Elle Cordova: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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

As of 2026-10-29, Elle Cordova has 793,000 subscribers, 247,609,410 total views, and 161 videos. It ranks #94,727 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Elle Cordova](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/). 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 Elle Cordova is “Murder ballad lyrics are the only place my handwriting seems appropriate”, a Short published Oct 29, 2026.
- These are Elle Cordova’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Apr 5, 2025 and Oct 29, 2026 (21 long-form videos and 27 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 164,396. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Punctuation marks hanging out” (3,922,098 views, Apr 5, 2025). Least viewed: “Hyperion - Elle's Sci-Fi Book Club” (0 views, Jun 27, 2026).
- Median length: 59:49 for 20 long-form videos; 1:25 for 27 Shorts.
- In this sample, Elle Cordova’s consecutive uploads were a median of 7 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 55 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 30, 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Murder ballad lyrics are the only place my handwriting seems appropriate](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/ldlQDn3Q2U0/) | 2026-10-29 | Short | 36,129 | 0:35 | - |
| [Darlin’ where you been? 🔪 (OUT NOW)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/qnxBEt08F1o/) | 2026-10-27 | Short | 96,231 | 1:30 | - |
| [Curiosities new album is coming!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/dM87_WpgUqY/) | 2026-10-13 | Long-form | 42,405 | 2:36 | - |
| [New album Curiosities coming Nov 13!!!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/qp3urB9lXTI/) | 2026-10-13 | Short | 126,481 | 0:51 | - |
| [This is not a runaway train](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/Zg8C9DTdl9M/) | 2026-10-06 | Short | 450,617 | 2:47 | 1.04x |
| [Can the AI Power Problem Lead to a Cleaner Future? (with Steph Speirs)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/xwXM2pHj0g4/) | 2026-10-06 | Long-form | 101,704 | 40:18 | 0.57x |
| [Early #draft of the pharmaceuticals rhyme](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/I0uAGWujuvg/) | 2026-09-18 | Short | 382,994 | 0:38 | - |
| [Sylvia Plath redux](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/oGEHI_9r4ZA/) | 2026-09-16 | Short | 128,785 | 0:39 | - |
| [Sorrrrryyyyyy #TrampledByTurtles](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/8pZC_7U2QC0/) | 2026-09-12 | Short | 1,839,788 | 0:55 | 2.69x |
| [Modern Day Typographer - Elle Cordova](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/0Ck-NPqf2c8/) | 2026-09-08 | Long-form | 597,872 | 3:03 | 8.8x |
| [Modern Day Typographer](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/7m5zila7gnY/) | 2026-09-08 | Short | 502,627 | 2:52 | - |
| [Rough Draft vs Final Draft](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/YqPPyGDfiDY/) | 2026-09-03 | Short | 1,010,986 | 1:48 | 1.34x |
| [The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick \| Elle's Sci Fi Book Club](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/nXW0C0Zdjm0/) | 2026-08-30 | Long-form | 35,856 | 1:02:50 | - |
| [Dark Matter](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/N9wR0v_A4-U/) | 2026-08-28 | Short | 242,193 | 0:50 | - |
| [Data centers](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/kdvUJ7idDuM/) | 2026-08-08 | Short | 458,712 | 2:00 | - |
| [House of Suns - Alastair Reynolds \| Elle's Sci Fi Book Club](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/oBuaOGyl2Us/) | 2026-07-26 | Long-form | 7,238 | 1:07:06 | - |
| [Hyperion - Elle's Sci-Fi Book Club](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/mgX1ys0lNi8/) | 2026-06-27 | Long-form | 0 | - | - |
| [Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel \| Elle's Sci Fi Book Club](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/k8Pi-inB4GE/) | 2026-05-31 | Long-form | 13,550 | 1:03:05 | - |
| [A grammatical murder mystery](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/RC2pFHS0mgU/) | 2026-05-23 | Short | 858,931 | 2:30 | 1x |
| [Exhalation - Ted Chiang - Elle's Sci Fi Book Club](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/GjsJGaQRltI/) | 2026-04-25 | Long-form | 9,190 | 1:30:16 | - |
| [Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir \| Elle's Sci-Fi Book Club](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/9rfX-78bpgc/) | 2026-03-01 | Long-form | 41,085 | 54:21 | - |
| [The Power by Naomi Alderman \| Elle's Sci-Fi Book Club](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/lQFh2V1jhlg/) | 2026-02-01 | Long-form | 8,606 | 48:35 | - |
| [Bring on the midterms](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/snat5-T2f-g/) | 2026-01-30 | Short | 891,450 | 1:28 | 1.02x |
| [Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut \| Elle's Sci-Fi Book Club](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/wJaXResjj3A/) | 2025-12-27 | Long-form | 13,627 | 57:45 | - |
| [Emily Dickinson: I died for Beauty - but was scarce](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/3j7cV_Vynuk/) | 2025-12-10 | Short | 200,007 | 0:54 | - |
| [Mr. Oil Man, start your machines](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/NpIq-MOqeLM/) | 2025-12-08 | Short | 866,611 | 1:28 | 1.54x |
| [Protect science! 🧪](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/igndcFIHUjg/) | 2025-12-02 | Short | 300,758 | 2:17 | - |
| [Contact by Carl Sagan \| Elle's Sci-Fi Book Club](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/9R9leoMmu9Y/) | 2025-11-30 | Long-form | 15,958 | 1:21:05 | - |
| [Grammarian vs Errorist III](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/teUcza18RwE/) | 2025-11-18 | Short | 642,339 | 2:48 | - |
| [Grammarian drops into Errorist's secret L'error](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/mTSl1ZONq6k/) | 2025-11-18 | Long-form | 51,461 | 2:48 | - |
| [Solaris by Stanislaw Lem \| Elle's Sci-Fi Book Club](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/XGZ_tfLaZjE/) | 2025-10-25 | Long-form | 9,704 | 58:26 | - |
| [They did the Monster Slash](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/4Iu3gJ5Kirk/) | 2025-10-07 | Short | 1,328,254 | 1:31 | 1.21x |
| [The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin \| Elle's Sci-Fi Book Club](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/iZoP2u0U-AU/) | 2025-09-28 | Long-form | 13,307 | 1:02:45 | - |
| [Tragedy of the Commons](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/8WGs8txyuhg/) | 2025-09-13 | Short | 740,388 | 0:20 | - |
| [Reference books hanging out](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/CkNRm_mXSLo/) | 2025-09-12 | Short | 959,572 | 0:53 | - |
| [For our scientists](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/AYm9w6W5B-E/) | 2025-09-05 | Short | 885,252 | 2:01 | - |
| [Em dash on ChatGPT allegations](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/XKsPaX2NVOs/) | 2025-09-01 | Short | 910,859 | 1:29 | - |
| [Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro \| Elle's Sci-Fi Book Club](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/dBSFVy9FvyQ/) | 2025-08-30 | Long-form | 16,188 | 1:13:54 | - |
| [Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/ilry6T71hUA/) | 2025-07-31 | Short | 2,546,020 | 1:24 | 1.77x |
| [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy \| Elle's Sci-Fi Book Club](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/yCv1UbyKG5Q/) | 2025-07-26 | Long-form | 39,188 | 53:05 | - |
| [Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? \| Elle's Sci-Fi Book Club](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/8xxGSzXua1g/) | 2025-06-28 | Long-form | 18,321 | 1:07:06 | - |
| [Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler \| Elle's Sci-Fi Book Club](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/lh34K52Xu6U/) | 2025-06-01 | Long-form | 23,771 | 1:17:30 | - |
| [Fun with alliteration](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/XeirUTzisL0/) | 2025-05-26 | Short | 1,241,490 | 0:47 | 0.86x |
| [Grammarian vs Errorist II](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/1CZokjXdINw/) | 2025-05-01 | Short | 1,640,998 | 1:25 | 0.85x |
| [The Errorist strikes again!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/ib7jyxfUNMo/) | 2025-05-01 | Long-form | 110,727 | 2:11 | - |
| [The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin \| Elle's Sci-Fi Book Club](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/jtdJghgfGX8/) | 2025-04-26 | Long-form | 119,432 | 1:01:12 | 1.76x |
| [happy earth day to our little dust mote 🌍](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/OnJVJ9XUzlI/) | 2025-04-22 | Short | 572,697 | 0:45 | - |
| [Punctuation marks hanging out](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@ellecordova/videos/ky0YOo7_Y0o/) | 2025-04-05 | Short | 3,922,098 | 1:12 | 2.03x |

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