# Hello Future Me: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-11-02, Hello Future Me has 1,240,000 subscribers, 197,124,192 total views, and 525 videos. It ranks #57,356 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Hello Future Me](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/). 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 Hello Future Me is “Avatar: Seven Havens Is...”, a long-form video published Oct 31, 2026.
- These are Hello Future Me’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Dec 8, 2024 and Oct 31, 2026 (41 long-form videos and 7 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 221,496. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “I read all the Star Wars books, and now I understand the prequels” (2,060,493 views, Aug 30, 2026). Least viewed: “LOOK AT THIS GORGEOUS ART.” (17,422 views, Oct 18, 2025).
- Median length: 30:24 for 41 long-form videos; 1:02 for 7 Shorts.
- In this sample, Hello Future Me’s consecutive uploads were a median of 14 days apart (shortest gap 1 day, longest 119 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Nov 3, 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Avatar: Seven Havens Is...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/6klIqHkPMBE/) | 2026-10-31 | Long-form | 240,855 | 32:11 | 1.64x |
| [How Trade Routes Really Work: Chokepoints](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/lRYFlbGoyZE/) | 2026-10-30 | Long-form | 114,827 | 35:29 | - |
| [Avatar: Seven Havens Is Here. Is It Good?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/THJSMv_CHAA/) | 2026-10-10 | Long-form | 651,840 | 27:46 | 3.07x |
| [I read all the Star Wars books, and now I understand the prequels](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/26_IsLOGYX8/) | 2026-08-30 | Long-form | 2,060,493 | 1:59:58 | 5.68x |
| [How Trade Routes Really Work](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/skFI5LPBgOI/) | 2026-08-01 | Long-form | 460,862 | 34:32 | 1.7x |
| [The New Avatar Film Is Here. Is it Good?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/q7p2FKqYzHU/) | 2026-07-27 | Long-form | 223,149 | 22:11 | 0.99x |
| [The New Avatar Series Is Here. It's Different.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/Nyx9WJOn8xo/) | 2026-07-24 | Long-form | 406,676 | 21:30 | 1.82x |
| [Netflix Avatar Was A Lot Of Things \| Season 2](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/PXD2ucWEgpg/) | 2026-06-30 | Long-form | 173,107 | 10:53 | 0.81x |
| [Netflix Avatar Was Not Great \| An Overdue Critique](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/UFYkVSnQVDI/) | 2026-06-25 | Long-form | 634,653 | 2:19:42 | 2.94x |
| [How Epic Fantasy Writes So Many Characters At Once](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/hoWG8F84boc/) | 2026-06-06 | Long-form | 226,626 | 21:25 | 1.05x |
| [Ranking Every Episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/RlSQ01XqgnM/) | 2026-05-22 | Long-form | 148,382 | 1:08:42 | 0.71x |
| [Videogame Worldbuilding vs Normal Worldbuilding](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/2eKD0_60lfA/) | 2026-05-09 | Long-form | 444,421 | 31:45 | 2.05x |
| [Writing Character Introductions (which don't suck)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/7siUON2DmhU/) | 2026-04-25 | Long-form | 314,847 | 28:37 | 1.45x |
| [...why dragons?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/pZ4FqWhWjOM/) | 2026-04-11 | Long-form | 219,593 | 25:39 | 1.02x |
| [The Psychology of Avatar Korra](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/WvkN4d-3R0g/) | 2025-12-13 | Long-form | 143,599 | 1:00:23 | 0.66x |
| [ranking 10 popular fantasy books (ft. my first romantasy)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/T7Fq1g6zuG4/) | 2025-12-06 | Long-form | 37,732 | 29:39 | - |
| [The worst thing AI is doing nobody is talking about](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/iWd7dfCImzQ/) | 2025-11-25 | Long-form | 206,986 | 30:58 | 0.75x |
| [when the villain has a tragic backstory](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/Snr8Gjw0jBc/) | 2025-11-22 | Short | 27,209 | 1:02 | 1.03x |
| [when you judge a book by its cover](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/fpLzsJbbC-E/) | 2025-11-18 | Short | 34,751 | 1:04 | 1.21x |
| [Writing Characters Who Are Weapons](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/_oJCk80nnEI/) | 2025-11-15 | Long-form | 212,245 | 40:22 | 0.71x |
| [Look at this weird monster art](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/Sk0gYYhwII8/) | 2025-11-12 | Short | 28,757 | 1:06 | 1.09x |
| [when the dark lord becomes plot aware #anime](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/e1G1pumOHdc/) | 2025-11-10 | Short | 29,258 | 0:59 | - |
| [Worldbuilding Superweapons](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/-Ow9VNDJaq0/) | 2025-11-08 | Long-form | 219,843 | 37:12 | 0.61x |
| [when a character is definitely dead](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/MymbcbLBejY/) | 2025-11-06 | Short | 27,782 | 0:45 | - |
| [I need EXACTLY 1% of you to watch this video.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/Hl-rPA-z4ac/) | 2025-11-04 | Long-form | 49,083 | 4:51 | - |
| [Is Energybending Bad Writing? \| Avatar: The Last Airbender](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/0Kx02UFq8Zo/) | 2025-10-23 | Long-form | 243,953 | 28:55 | 0.56x |
| [LOOK AT THIS GORGEOUS ART.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/EvalNFeUwIA/) | 2025-10-18 | Short | 17,422 | 0:23 | - |
| [How Democracy Really Dies](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/DfmViBWBXgE/) | 2025-10-04 | Long-form | 550,765 | 53:08 | 1.27x |
| [How a Monarchy Really Dies](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/IgxnwsAclNc/) | 2025-09-20 | Long-form | 537,264 | 36:59 | 1.24x |
| [How to Write a Tragic Villain](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/vWYIEBlZ0fE/) | 2025-08-29 | Long-form | 810,966 | 39:20 | 2.19x |
| [When the horror monster isn't as scary as you thought](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/Ihj8Tubtsug/) | 2025-08-27 | Short | 120,033 | 1:03 | 4.2x |
| [Is Katara x Aang Bad Writing? \| An Overdue Critique](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/JWr0Q89879w/) | 2025-08-17 | Long-form | 309,319 | 30:54 | 0.84x |
| [Was Zutara Right? \| Avatar: The Last Airbender](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/-OOxftFwkW0/) | 2025-08-02 | Long-form | 458,036 | 46:03 | 1.24x |
| [Why You Don't Want To Be A God](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/SlXfFvoOp6w/) | 2025-07-19 | Long-form | 288,036 | 24:09 | 0.93x |
| [How to Write Cursed Characters](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/GTEQ7yKXBZE/) | 2025-06-28 | Long-form | 410,718 | 30:28 | 1.33x |
| [Food is a Worldbuilding Superpower](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/m7Elo8T1vFI/) | 2025-06-21 | Long-form | 328,236 | 31:07 | 1.3x |
| [The Worldbuilding of Avatar: Authoritarianism, Corruption, and Propaganda](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/DqmsT29GaMU/) | 2025-06-07 | Long-form | 486,082 | 26:42 | 2.08x |
| [How the Power of Love Ruins Stories](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/hWEw4OUJuGU/) | 2025-05-24 | Long-form | 191,180 | 24:21 | 0.95x |
| [Magic Systems Should Be Weirder](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/ivnw7VkqKjY/) | 2025-05-10 | Long-form | 729,315 | 18:02 | 3.38x |
| [Did Benders Oppress Non-Benders? \| The Worldbuilding of Avatar](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/8jWmJ38Ka20/) | 2025-04-26 | Long-form | 291,603 | 26:42 | 1.35x |
| [Why Overpowered Characters Are Hard To Write \| On Writing](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/cvnwC_s_DUE/) | 2025-04-12 | Long-form | 1,222,685 | 30:24 | 5.69x |
| [Tolkien's Philosophy: Why couldn't Gandalf take the One Ring? \| Lord of the Rings](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/NqEaRrtH514/) | 2025-03-28 | Long-form | 84,650 | 26:38 | - |
| [On Worldbuilding: Post Apocalypses!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/ZbaSWX_Roko/) | 2025-03-14 | Long-form | 212,643 | 26:15 | 0.98x |
| [This Game has Amazing Writing. I'm going to tell you about it.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/HPqQOFWD68g/) | 2025-02-28 | Long-form | 159,441 | 33:39 | 0.67x |
| [Time Loop Horror \| On Writing](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/Gin076OopLs/) | 2025-02-21 | Long-form | 165,566 | 28:26 | 0.7x |
| [A New Avatar Series Is Coming. It's Weird.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/Z6v_y_aOSWc/) | 2025-02-01 | Long-form | 254,898 | 24:39 | 0.99x |
| [Operation Satanic: The Failed Nuclear Conspiracy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/m0Ji3VTA6tw/) | 2025-01-03 | Long-form | 132,688 | 1:35:01 | - |
| [Why Great Writers Steal Ideas \| With Brandon Sanderson](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hellofutureme/videos/p0hMjjU42LQ/) | 2024-12-08 | Long-form | 218,566 | 22:49 | 0.71x |

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