# Expat Journals: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-29, Expat Journals has 624,000 subscribers, 322,575 total views, and 15 videos. It ranks #121,717 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Expat Journals](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@expat_journals/). 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 Expat Journals is “THAILAND: DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS 🇹🇭”, a long-form video published Oct 23, 2026.
- These are Expat Journals’s 15 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Oct 14, 2025 and Oct 23, 2026 (15 long-form videos).
- Median views across these 15 uploads: 13,391. 7 videos are above that median and 7 below, and 1 is equal to it.
- Most viewed in the sample: “THAILAND’S CRACKDOWN ON ISRAELI TOURISTS” (124,940 views, Oct 31, 2025). Least viewed: “A UK Nightmare: The Thai Embassy’s Dramatic Rescue of His Thai Bar Girl Wife 🇹🇭” (2,497 views, Jun 12, 2026).
- Median length: 16:49 for 15 long-form videos.
- In this sample, Expat Journals’s consecutive uploads were a median of 13 days apart (shortest gap 3 days, longest 119 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 29, 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [THAILAND: DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS 🇹🇭](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@expat_journals/videos/o-3a4NkUMbo/) | 2026-10-23 | Long-form | 10,142 | 25:16 | 1.23x |
| [THE GREAT PATTAYA RIP-OFF! Why Many Tourists Have Finally Had ENOUGH!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@expat_journals/videos/WD5qchfhyhI/) | 2026-10-18 | Long-form | 13,391 | 30:38 | 1.38x |
| [Tourists Are AVOIDING THAILAND This High Season 2026/27 🇹🇭](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@expat_journals/videos/JElBkCyur-s/) | 2026-09-25 | Long-form | 10,162 | 19:31 | - |
| [A UK Nightmare: The Thai Embassy’s Dramatic Rescue of His Thai Bar Girl Wife 🇹🇭](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@expat_journals/videos/GhRaSIWykHU/) | 2026-06-12 | Long-form | 2,497 | 23:38 | - |
| [The Problem With the “SEXPAT” Stereotype in Thailand](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@expat_journals/videos/kRVyJqQ_jKw/) | 2026-02-13 | Long-form | 3,115 | 16:06 | - |
| [MY LIFE IS ALMOST OVER — YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS 🇹🇭](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@expat_journals/videos/68h6ZqscgC0/) | 2026-02-09 | Long-form | 22,311 | 17:19 | 1.58x |
| [It’s Never Been HARDER TO RETIRE In THAILAND Than 2026](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@expat_journals/videos/Yk66pUogE1I/) | 2026-01-30 | Long-form | 7,785 | 12:47 | - |
| [THAILAND: LOCALS ARE FED UP WITH LOW QUALITY TOURISTS](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@expat_journals/videos/N6K_jqxhOkw/) | 2026-01-18 | Long-form | 3,404 | 20:32 | - |
| [THAILAND’S NEW SEXUAL OFFENCE ACT 2026 — WILL SCAMMERS EXPLOIT IT?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@expat_journals/videos/lf3II0iTd-w/) | 2026-01-08 | Long-form | 24,726 | 13:18 | 1.73x |
| [I KICKED MY THAI Girlfriend's Family OUT Of MY HOUSE in Thailand](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@expat_journals/videos/KyEKzkzdWXo/) | 2025-12-21 | Long-form | 16,537 | 14:47 | 1.39x |
| [THAILAND IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN — 22 INDIAN NATIONALS DETAINED IN 48 HOURS](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@expat_journals/videos/RT3fHu3Kavg/) | 2025-11-27 | Long-form | 17,589 | 16:49 | 1.79x |
| [ISRAELI TOURIST CRACKDOWN IN THAILAND — LOCAL BACKLASH GROWING FAST](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@expat_journals/videos/OnHeF9G1Ib0/) | 2025-11-16 | Long-form | 42,157 | 16:57 | 3.55x |
| [THAILAND’S CRACKDOWN ON ISRAELI TOURISTS](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@expat_journals/videos/0EashAimfKw/) | 2025-10-31 | Long-form | 124,940 | 14:18 | 11.06x |
| [24 NEW SCAMS in Thailand (2025/26)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@expat_journals/videos/QW_n6wwvsnY/) | 2025-10-28 | Long-form | 3,957 | 15:03 | - |
| [Thailand’s Tourism Slowdown Is Becoming Harder to Ignore](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@expat_journals/videos/1dfsworOOwc/) | 2025-10-14 | Long-form | 20,088 | 11:22 | - |

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