# OBF: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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

As of 2026-11-02, OBF has 741,000 subscribers, 131,511,494 total views, and 165 videos. It ranks #101,916 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [OBF](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/). 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 OBF is “Which Superpower Collapses First?”, a long-form video published Nov 1, 2026.
- These are OBF’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Nov 24, 2024 and Nov 1, 2026 (44 long-form videos and 4 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 323,993. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Which Rich Country Goes Bankrupt First?” (8,542,331 views, Oct 13, 2026). Least viewed: “There are no bridges across the Amazon??” (10,869 views, Feb 17, 2025).
- Median length: 14:06 for 44 long-form videos; 1:01 for 4 Shorts.
- In this sample, OBF’s consecutive uploads were a median of 10 days apart (shortest gap 1 day, longest 54 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Nov 2, 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Which Superpower Collapses First?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/tWcd4YiDK7w/) | 2026-11-01 | Long-form | 117,636 | 14:40 | - |
| [Why North America Is Rich And South America Is Poor](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/mEGLACwnVwI/) | 2026-10-28 | Long-form | 99,577 | 21:17 | - |
| [Why Rich Countries Feel So Poor Now](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/J-ugfH_pg1s/) | 2026-10-26 | Long-form | 397,830 | 21:07 | 0.97x |
| [Which Country Runs Out Of Oil First?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/RAYgLzFM4pE/) | 2026-10-22 | Long-form | 518,645 | 19:29 | 1.09x |
| [How To Absolutely Ruin A New City](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/Pl8C4jcuqkA/) | 2026-10-19 | Long-form | 212,724 | 18:28 | 0.59x |
| [America Can't Go Bankrupt. Here's What Happens Instead](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/FVxmNVMSAhU/) | 2026-10-16 | Long-form | 967,484 | 18:20 | 2.44x |
| [Japan's Insane Plan To Survive](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/UN--u8keZIM/) | 2026-10-15 | Long-form | 584,644 | 17:19 | 2.66x |
| [Which Rich Country Goes Bankrupt First?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/zhQVjly5Gos/) | 2026-10-13 | Long-form | 8,542,331 | 17:35 | 37.92x |
| [Why Indonesia Is The Worst Designed Country On Earth](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/16O7HyTjg2M/) | 2026-10-10 | Long-form | 1,129,993 | 20:09 | 5.3x |
| [Every Country, Ranked By How Screwed It Is](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/de1wR-L-Sp0/) | 2026-09-30 | Long-form | 829,100 | 57:29 | 3.1x |
| [The World’s Most Dangerous Supply Chain](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/QpWMEGLgaZ8/) | 2026-09-05 | Long-form | 263,716 | 18:44 | 0.92x |
| [Why China's Unsolvable Problem Will Start A War](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/6KbziZeNaUA/) | 2026-07-28 | Long-form | 266,731 | 12:21 | 0.71x |
| [Zurich’s Insane Plan To End Traffic](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/kew0EIR5oxk/) | 2026-07-14 | Long-form | 307,621 | 9:59 | 0.68x |
| [How To Literally Run Out Of Everything](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/qqxzeNuDVc8/) | 2026-07-02 | Long-form | 447,347 | 14:40 | 0.97x |
| [Why The Next Crash Will Be Completely Different Than Before](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/Za_ka37MuPs/) | 2026-06-01 | Long-form | 136,035 | 12:58 | - |
| [South Korea's Insane Plan To Survive](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/yMGrRc1LjU8/) | 2026-05-17 | Long-form | 2,741,663 | 18:01 | 4.87x |
| [Why Europe Forgot How To Defend Itself](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/z1YQgZAjTlM/) | 2026-05-09 | Long-form | 213,854 | 22:20 | - |
| [The Hardest Problem The Mexican Cartel Solved](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/9XdPuCsexJU/) | 2026-05-01 | Long-form | 466,221 | 12:24 | 0.97x |
| [How To Destroy An Economy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/B1yXAfP0AAI/) | 2026-04-23 | Long-form | 2,495,976 | 10:55 | 4.4x |
| [Why Dictators Are Necessary Sometimes](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/Uk8eY6iYTpY/) | 2026-04-16 | Long-form | 1,173,317 | 18:39 | 2.42x |
| [America's New Target, Explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/EExOrt_m5K4/) | 2026-03-21 | Long-form | 659,383 | 17:30 | 1.53x |
| [Why The World Needs Morocco's Rocks](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/OzohL2WQcjI/) | 2026-03-08 | Long-form | 150,195 | 12:11 | 2.02x |
| [How To Ruin A Country Economically](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/Y9d9Qq4uL3E/) | 2026-02-17 | Long-form | 775,171 | 13:33 | 1.8x |
| [The Money Laundering Capital Of The World](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/LxZGzFUGCMM/) | 2026-01-21 | Long-form | 356,515 | 19:38 | 0.96x |
| [How The Colombian Cartels Work](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/Yiw6ynlG_6U/) | 2025-12-11 | Long-form | 386,290 | 19:13 | 1.07x |
| [Where Illegal Guns REALLY Come From](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/BLAftj9Hhrc/) | 2025-11-26 | Long-form | 335,936 | 16:37 | 0.83x |
| [Earth's Most Absurd Dictatorship](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/mU_XUaJnWUQ/) | 2025-10-06 | Long-form | 497,512 | 15:32 | 1.37x |
| [How Italy's Mafia Runs Europe's Underworld](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/1KtuPpinF9M/) | 2025-09-10 | Long-form | 634,822 | 13:08 | 2.87x |
| [The World's Maddest Dictatorship](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/GYs_Wa8xyGg/) | 2025-08-28 | Long-form | 472,788 | 13:15 | 2.18x |
| [How They Caught the Queen of Human Trafficking](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/IqcwtZS5l7k/) | 2025-08-21 | Long-form | 188,064 | 12:05 | 0.86x |
| [Why You Haven't Heard Of Russia's Area 51 Yet](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/9EH0MJ4Ob2k/) | 2025-07-25 | Long-form | 190,431 | 13:13 | 0.88x |
| [The Geopolitics Of The Mexican Cartels](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/Ak85pCY5hqQ/) | 2025-07-13 | Long-form | 1,625,826 | 14:07 | 6.56x |
| [Immigrants vs. Sweden](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/fdkhcV23mLg/) | 2025-07-04 | Long-form | 133,354 | 8:58 | 0.71x |
| [Why Japan Built A City In This Volcano](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/EC3-tAVi7lc/) | 2025-06-19 | Long-form | 251,213 | 9:06 | 1.01x |
| [How To Absolutely Ruin A Country](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/h4uKhOptkjs/) | 2025-06-12 | Long-form | 529,144 | 10:32 | 2.43x |
| [Why there's no bridge between Great Britain and Ireland](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/93ufLfOhax4/) | 2025-06-09 | Short | 64,777 | 1:09 | 3.14x |
| [How Haiti became The First Failed State](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/heHolXKYFE8/) | 2025-06-06 | Long-form | 93,890 | 13:07 | - |
| [Tokyo's Map Design, Explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/gc_NZT2OZbw/) | 2025-06-01 | Long-form | 67,394 | 10:24 | - |
| [The mystery of Manhattan's 15 wider streets](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/ts3oxb-qFg0/) | 2025-05-22 | Short | 25,616 | 1:10 | - |
| [Why Amsterdam Looks Like That](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/Mo3llzKdAD0/) | 2025-05-20 | Long-form | 244,887 | 9:24 | 0.88x |
| [Life in the Worst vs. Best City on Earth](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/h9-7SksG23s/) | 2025-05-11 | Long-form | 312,049 | 20:27 | 0.81x |
| [How To Perfect A Country](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/edxK200E1z8/) | 2025-04-13 | Long-form | 109,397 | 10:56 | 1.2x |
| [Trump Didn't Want Us To Know This About Greenland](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/7bRQroP3BgA/) | 2025-04-05 | Short | 12,995 | 0:53 | - |
| [If Failure Was A City, It Would Be This One...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/A1hTo7EFDbg/) | 2025-02-28 | Long-form | 463,596 | 13:07 | 1.01x |
| [There are no bridges across the Amazon??](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/X64RXefS89o/) | 2025-02-17 | Short | 10,869 | 0:44 | - |
| [How Elon & Trump Could End U.S. Debt](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/i4eaWqCKk8U/) | 2025-02-13 | Long-form | 92,966 | 14:06 | - |
| [How To Destroy A Country](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/R8NVJmpXimo/) | 2024-12-21 | Long-form | 1,513,795 | 9:07 | 3.09x |
| [The Amazon's Hidden Metropolis Of 2,000,000](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@obfyt/videos/olkyGH42hYw/) | 2024-11-24 | Long-form | 191,188 | 9:26 | 0.53x |

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