# Etymology Nerd: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-27, Etymology Nerd has 732,000 subscribers, 654,362,944 total views, and 681 videos. It ranks #102,983 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Etymology Nerd](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/). 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 Etymology Nerd is “I love gay halloween”, a Short published Oct 26, 2026.
- These are Etymology Nerd’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Jun 7, 2026 and Oct 26, 2026 (48 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 261,429. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Intellectual slop” (1,327,723 views, Jun 12, 2026). Least viewed: “Notes on cuntiness” (63,126 views, Oct 1, 2026).
- Median length: 1:02 for 48 Shorts.
- In this sample, Etymology Nerd’s consecutive uploads were a median of 2 days apart (shortest gap 1 day, longest 9 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 28, 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [I love gay halloween](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/RzUJr4JC0gM/) | 2026-10-26 | Short | 74,421 | 1:01 | 1.13x |
| [Why people are versing each other](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/ZhOEW7Zfujw/) | 2026-10-17 | Short | 68,027 | 1:01 | - |
| [The new meaning of "two man"](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/aKugln1PrrE/) | 2026-10-13 | Short | 69,278 | 1:01 | - |
| [Is chalant still ironic?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/7n9HITmMtUk/) | 2026-10-09 | Short | 114,410 | 1:01 | - |
| [Dark Forest Theory of the Internet](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/uNeLlIjnokY/) | 2026-10-06 | Short | 64,259 | 1:01 | - |
| [fontmaxxing](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/Du6vchOWlD4/) | 2026-10-04 | Short | 113,903 | 1:01 | - |
| [Is brainrot dead?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/6LizCYNJTSI/) | 2026-10-02 | Short | 80,227 | 1:03 | - |
| [Notes on cuntiness](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/h9iaunALNk0/) | 2026-10-01 | Short | 63,126 | 1:02 | - |
| [Responding to Language Jones](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/NwddJyTxEu8/) | 2026-09-28 | Short | 1,051,813 | 1:40 | 4.95x |
| [ironic game theory](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/MGG3xD8CdJ8/) | 2026-09-24 | Short | 173,216 | 1:01 | - |
| [#swag](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/R3HiAE7pCJE/) | 2026-09-22 | Short | 164,598 | 1:02 | - |
| [Why Claudish sounds like that](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/TmFBva2fDfQ/) | 2026-09-19 | Short | 656,555 | 1:02 | 2.18x |
| [Sydney Sweeney mind virus](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/g1jNK1mRHm4/) | 2026-09-18 | Short | 910,706 | 1:03 | 3.15x |
| [Happy kirkiversary](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/1qHNbqNUoTQ/) | 2026-09-10 | Short | 362,207 | 1:01 | 1.27x |
| [We are pickle sahur](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/TM-nahslmek/) | 2026-09-09 | Short | 114,669 | 1:07 | - |
| [🫪🫪🫪](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/zg_iINs5MPc/) | 2026-09-04 | Short | 152,431 | 1:11 | - |
| [Eventslop](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/GDd7JBhQhn0/) | 2026-08-30 | Short | 230,193 | 1:10 | - |
| [Disgusting video](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/FeRXakSIf7o/) | 2026-08-28 | Short | 198,876 | 1:02 | - |
| [Is the word "girl" gender neutral?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/qbwgFhOGb-s/) | 2026-08-22 | Short | 581,419 | 1:01 | 1.65x |
| [Chic slop](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/KOtM5x6mu64/) | 2026-08-19 | Short | 226,893 | 1:02 | - |
| [🗿🗿🗿](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/qKY3tnWarMA/) | 2026-08-18 | Short | 368,440 | 1:01 | - |
| [How do you say "Muslim"?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/iGQw2tlhhx0/) | 2026-08-10 | Short | 1,170,626 | 1:01 | 2.09x |
| [Society wants you to oil up](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/PvpvbV09r3U/) | 2026-08-07 | Short | 361,261 | 1:02 | 1.11x |
| [I'm writing on my wall](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/7M-Hb4y9lss/) | 2026-07-31 | Short | 481,317 | 1:01 | 1.31x |
| [More dead internet theory](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/BeSVCNrc5mE/) | 2026-07-30 | Short | 440,689 | 1:02 | 1.39x |
| [The flaw behind AI detection tools](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/K8QcWaYhuvE/) | 2026-07-27 | Short | 201,077 | 1:11 | - |
| [Brainrot détournement](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/QPJ_SgSAOFk/) | 2026-07-25 | Short | 138,389 | 1:07 | - |
| [Finding out](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/QqrmiJzJi_I/) | 2026-07-24 | Short | 292,665 | 0:53 | - |
| [Why AI calls this a pipe](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/H7jxjEu-T6g/) | 2026-07-23 | Short | 689,270 | 1:02 | 2.42x |
| [The ecology of slop](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/rn39_3k4Q50/) | 2026-07-21 | Short | 867,925 | 1:07 | 2x |
| ["Computah" is a vocative](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/lJSxerlT_jE/) | 2026-07-20 | Short | 216,283 | 1:12 | - |
| [📍folk valley](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/O2uhDRqTLgA/) | 2026-07-17 | Short | 207,184 | 1:02 | - |
| [Why my comments look like that](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/sZDMvQOUFkk/) | 2026-07-14 | Short | 461,717 | 1:01 | 1.21x |
| [Let there be Tung](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/tohR9_XdK5g/) | 2026-07-13 | Short | 745,081 | 1:09 | 1.94x |
| [Why does water feel liminal?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/0ee-B9cwPaY/) | 2026-07-12 | Short | 152,656 | 1:05 | - |
| [Bots are controlling our language](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/dH0bsFnjxHk/) | 2026-07-07 | Short | 352,480 | 1:02 | - |
| [I'm adjacent-adjacent](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/t3Vr1NvlTA4/) | 2026-07-05 | Short | 174,288 | 1:01 | - |
| [AI knows how words feel?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/qIqhVo9jLy8/) | 2026-07-02 | Short | 208,527 | 1:06 | - |
| [gta 6 analysis before gta 6](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/UiSg6GplizA/) | 2026-07-01 | Short | 555,358 | 1:01 | 1.25x |
| [This spikes my cortisol](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/YMJ5tNhnKoE/) | 2026-06-29 | Short | 381,984 | 1:06 | - |
| [e/acc](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/G8NePgN264I/) | 2026-06-27 | Short | 404,751 | 1:01 | - |
| [Why you're talking like AI](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/ms-JPUkYbuQ/) | 2026-06-18 | Short | 520,971 | 1:03 | 1.17x |
| [AI fruit slop analysis](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/kngTvoYdFG0/) | 2026-06-18 | Short | 1,098,894 | 1:04 | 2.93x |
| [What does 86 47 mean?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/D9BhOU_Le8A/) | 2026-06-15 | Short | 1,008,070 | 1:01 | 3.15x |
| [Intellectual slop](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/dEYvdnwB4MM/) | 2026-06-12 | Short | 1,327,723 | 1:03 | 3.92x |
| [papoi](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/REAoPIKgXH0/) | 2026-06-11 | Short | 374,085 | 1:03 | 1.19x |
| [Oral communication is so back](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/cDNyshp4tnY/) | 2026-06-07 | Short | 201,057 | 1:17 | - |
| [You're welcome](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@etymology_nerd/videos/GY1nOOyWCPE/) | 2026-06-07 | Short | 154,169 | 0:58 | - |

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