# Lindsay Ellis: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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

As of 2026-10-28, Lindsay Ellis has 1,350,000 subscribers, 173,567,241 total views, and 132 videos. It ranks #51,867 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Lindsay Ellis](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/). 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 Lindsay Ellis is “I Tested Every Cruise Line to Find the Least Evil”, a long-form video published Sep 21, 2026.
- These are Lindsay Ellis’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Jan 22, 2018 and Sep 21, 2026 (39 long-form videos and 9 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 1,915,854. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “How Aladdin Changed Animation (by Screwing Over Robin Williams)” (8,322,392 views, May 20, 2019). Least viewed: “Advance reader copies pt. 1 ft little Joel” (84,159 views, Mar 24, 2024).
- Median length: 36:02 for 39 long-form videos; 0:59 for 9 Shorts.
- In this sample, Lindsay Ellis’s consecutive uploads were a median of 43 days apart (shortest gap 3 days, longest 827 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [I Tested Every Cruise Line to Find the Least Evil](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/zjPRAM0WDgw/) | 2026-09-21 | Long-form | 5,101,727 | 2:20:41 | 2.52x |
| [Ed Sheeran’s non-complicity merch](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/OPE7pTKNstM/) | 2026-09-16 | Short | 798,800 | 1:12 | 6.02x |
| [Did Disney Really Steal Aladdin?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/44chgavSaKA/) | 2026-03-30 | Long-form | 1,493,783 | 1:07:07 | 0.74x |
| [What happened to the South Park guys?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/WjtWvygG5wI/) | 2026-03-02 | Short | 132,636 | 1:47 | 1.03x |
| [Watch the video here on Nebula https://nebula.tv/videos/lindsayellis-bodycam-youtube](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/_H0zzRDQRvU/) | 2025-12-19 | Short | 123,506 | 1:20 | 1.01x |
| [Bluey adults! Only on Nebula and only for adults. https://nebula.tv/videos/lindsayellis-bluey-adults](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/lkx4jLg41kc/) | 2025-12-10 | Short | 90,944 | 0:43 | - |
| [The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/QwpanShgOp4/) | 2025-08-26 | Long-form | 3,575,940 | 2:22:02 | 1.4x |
| [Comparing and contrasting Disney’s flop eras, now on Nebula](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/97mjYqcu4lk/) | 2025-07-22 | Short | 150,254 | 1:02 | - |
| [Trash Disney Rebrands \| Nebula Original](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/6-qeMzrdKs4/) | 2025-04-18 | Short | 353,469 | 0:59 | - |
| [Did Yoko Break Up The Beatles?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/SMOABV_zgrk/) | 2024-07-05 | Long-form | 3,268,375 | 1:41:11 | 1.8x |
| [Stop helping @littlestjoel](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/kv6YQamfBFM/) | 2024-03-27 | Short | 183,508 | 0:59 | - |
| [Advance reader copies pt. 1 ft little Joel](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/lu95IhDV1ng/) | 2024-03-24 | Short | 84,159 | 0:54 | - |
| [Attention Canada! Sale ends 1/28!: https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/sale/most-anticipated-sci-fi-fantasy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/cUTRYlIPE7I/) | 2024-01-26 | Short | 115,156 | 0:35 | - |
| [Love Never Dies: The Magnificent Trashfire Sequel to Phantom of the Opera](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/Pfz-_WxGu3Y/) | 2021-10-21 | Long-form | 2,558,977 | 44:00 | 1.81x |
| [Loki, the MCU, and Narcissism](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/n2Tg-OmOztM/) | 2021-09-02 | Long-form | 1,090,092 | 36:34 | - |
| [9 things I wish I knew before publishing my first novel](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/7hZdOGB7Tgk/) | 2021-08-13 | Long-form | 461,935 | 23:13 | - |
| [Reevaluating The Little Mermaid before Disney horks up another live action remake](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/NeuLEu9ZePc/) | 2021-06-16 | Long-form | 1,911,748 | 35:46 | 1.35x |
| [Tracing the Roots of Pop Culture Transphobia](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/cHTMidTLO60/) | 2021-02-22 | Long-form | 2,276,664 | 58:57 | 1.61x |
| [Axiom's End Q&A](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/TJWAxMfFAOg/) | 2020-12-18 | Long-form | 318,967 | 42:18 | - |
| [Why Borat Works Better in 2020](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/MlqWBVea5S4/) | 2020-12-05 | Long-form | 1,460,978 | 31:00 | 1.03x |
| [Addison Cain's lawyer e-mailed me, and it only got worse from there](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/K3v5wFMQRqs/) | 2020-10-23 | Long-form | 4,650,076 | 53:26 | 3.29x |
| [Into The Omegaverse: How a Fanfic Trope Landed in Federal Court](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/zhWWcWtAUoY/) | 2020-09-03 | Long-form | 4,903,125 | 1:04:35 | 3.47x |
| [Death of the Author 2: Rowling Boogaloo](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/NViZYL-U8s0/) | 2020-07-06 | Long-form | 2,277,996 | 17:59 | 1.61x |
| [Is Titanic Good, Actually?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/hW4U_lfgPac/) | 2020-07-03 | Long-form | 2,296,094 | 40:37 | 1.63x |
| [Protest Music of the Bush Era](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/ehbgAGlrVKE/) | 2020-06-12 | Long-form | 2,089,813 | 37:47 | 1.48x |
| [WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/CameSDK-2m8/) | 2020-04-12 | Long-form | 1,919,960 | 2:41 | 1.36x |
| [Why is Cats?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/G6iqAip-ZNo/) | 2020-04-03 | Long-form | 5,344,081 | 57:30 | 3.79x |
| [The Most Whitewashed Character In Literary History](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/XrhrXTDeue0/) | 2020-01-31 | Long-form | 1,398,291 | 35:51 | - |
| [How To Get A Book Deal in Ten Years or Less](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/tuRE55YH8yE/) | 2019-12-07 | Long-form | 907,412 | 31:05 | - |
| [Woke Disney](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/xU1ffHa47YY/) | 2019-09-30 | Long-form | 3,682,718 | 30:02 | 2.61x |
| [The Last of the Game of Thrones Hot Takes](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/BGr0NRx3TKU/) | 2019-08-14 | Long-form | 5,728,653 | 1:10:46 | 4.06x |
| [We Need to Talk About Game of Thrones I Guess](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/hys_m3BPTS8/) | 2019-06-28 | Long-form | 4,490,270 | 44:04 | 3.18x |
| [How Aladdin Changed Animation (by Screwing Over Robin Williams)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/nyiBdccfNkg/) | 2019-05-20 | Long-form | 8,322,392 | 24:00 | 5.9x |
| [Independence Day vs. War of the Worlds](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/KioF1sTQFtE/) | 2019-02-01 | Long-form | 2,053,107 | 37:10 | - |
| [Death of the Author](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/MGn9x4-Y_7A/) | 2018-12-31 | Long-form | 1,627,892 | 30:17 | 1.15x |
| [YouTube: Manufacturing Authenticity (For Fun and Profit!)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/8FJEtCvb2Kw/) | 2018-09-11 | Long-form | 1,900,711 | 36:02 | 1.35x |
| [The Death of the Hollywood Movie Musical](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/b8o7LzGqc3E/) | 2018-08-31 | Long-form | 1,686,922 | 24:57 | 1.19x |
| [400k Q&A!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/UkfgB48jeZA/) | 2018-08-15 | Long-form | 606,902 | 26:14 | - |
| [That Time Disney Remade Beauty and the Beast](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/vpUx9DnQUkA/) | 2018-07-31 | Long-form | 4,802,168 | 36:53 | 3.4x |
| [Marxism! \| The Whole Plate: Episode 9](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/pFMiuAtbMO0/) | 2018-07-25 | Long-form | 820,180 | 19:02 | - |
| [Queering Michael Bay \| The Whole Plate: Episode 8](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/btbAxY6P3Oc/) | 2018-06-30 | Long-form | 900,848 | 16:20 | - |
| [The Ideology of the First Order](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/XAVeyXwy3BE/) | 2018-06-03 | Long-form | 1,942,515 | 23:40 | 1.38x |
| [The Hobbit: The Desolation of Warners (Part 3/2)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/Qi7t_g5QObs/) | 2018-04-20 | Long-form | 2,502,552 | 30:38 | 1.77x |
| [The Hobbit: Battle of Five Studios (Part 2/2)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/ElPJr_tKkO4/) | 2018-04-03 | Long-form | 3,089,360 | 34:43 | 2.19x |
| [The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy (Part 1/2)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/uTRUQ-RKfUs/) | 2018-03-28 | Long-form | 5,862,043 | 36:49 | 4.15x |
| [My Monster Boyfriend](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/YesMWAxqJ60/) | 2018-03-02 | Long-form | 1,711,709 | 24:23 | 1.21x |
| [Bright: The Apotheosis of Lazy Worldbuilding \| Video Essay](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/gLOxQxMnEz8/) | 2018-02-02 | Long-form | 4,707,708 | 44:34 | 3.33x |
| [Dear Stephenie Meyer](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@lindsayellisvids/videos/8O06tMbIKh0/) | 2018-01-22 | Long-form | 3,007,558 | 19:09 | 2.13x |

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