# SideQuest - Animated History: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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

As of 2026-10-27, SideQuest - Animated History has 677,000 subscribers, 53,199,111 total views, and 72 videos. It ranks #111,818 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [SideQuest - Animated History](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/). 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 SideQuest - Animated History is “What If You Were a Medieval Mercenary?”, a long-form video published Sep 29, 2026.
- These are SideQuest - Animated History’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Jul 14, 2021 and Sep 29, 2026 (45 long-form videos and 3 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 443,540. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “That Time England Almost Converted to Islam” (2,751,311 views, May 7, 2022). Least viewed: “How Profitable Was It to Own Black Slaves? #history #animation #sidequest” (24,901 views, Mar 26, 2026).
- Median length: 9:03 for 45 long-form videos; 1:06 for 3 Shorts.
- In this sample, SideQuest - Animated History’s consecutive uploads were a median of 25 days apart (shortest gap 2 days, longest 159 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [What If You Were a Medieval Mercenary?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/zwOrYfdpjEo/) | 2026-09-29 | Long-form | 200,684 | 9:29 | 1.05x |
| [What If You Were a Russian Aristocrat in 1917?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/FoR7bLYQsHc/) | 2026-09-19 | Long-form | 185,550 | 12:39 | 0.61x |
| [What If You Were a Roman Gladiator?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/fsWINTv8iVQ/) | 2026-08-31 | Long-form | 77,802 | 10:29 | - |
| [Why Were Military Ranks Sold in the Past?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/JE4ltetw8Ag/) | 2026-08-22 | Long-form | 423,515 | 9:03 | 0.98x |
| [What If You Invested in Confederate Stocks?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/Ejk2nYlDwBM/) | 2026-07-31 | Long-form | 92,899 | 11:09 | - |
| [How Douglas MacArthur Almost Started WW3](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/bUnTI22XcQ0/) | 2026-07-21 | Long-form | 442,291 | 12:54 | 1x |
| [What If You Invested in the Nazi Stock Market?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/-1MUeBxpb48/) | 2026-06-26 | Long-form | 643,825 | 13:25 | 1.4x |
| [How Debt Nearly Destroyed America](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/9EpJp3xrXeo/) | 2026-06-12 | Long-form | 158,201 | 14:31 | - |
| [Why Didn’t Africans Colonize the Americas](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/ahZWEJlRMrw/) | 2026-06-05 | Long-form | 185,563 | 10:31 | - |
| [Why Korea Has the Best Alphabet - And How They Got It](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/oAeiHXkY1iE/) | 2026-05-01 | Long-form | 419,868 | 12:23 | 0.88x |
| [How Profitable Was It to Own Black Slaves? #history #animation #sidequest](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/bJ7OB_63Rns/) | 2026-03-26 | Short | 24,901 | 1:07 | - |
| [How Spain Planned to Conquer China](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/Mr6w_pOWm0I/) | 2026-03-20 | Long-form | 444,728 | 11:53 | 0.93x |
| [How Profitable Was It to Own Black Slaves?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/70R2KhShCzs/) | 2026-03-06 | Long-form | 645,830 | 9:19 | 1.24x |
| [What Happened to British Loyalists After the Revolution? #history #animation #sidequest](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/KS1MXudTLv0/) | 2026-02-10 | Short | 31,213 | 1:06 | - |
| [What Happened to British Loyalists After the Revolution?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/4ileq4P8KDs/) | 2026-01-27 | Long-form | 564,185 | 12:55 | 1.08x |
| [How the Germans Took Over the British Monarchy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/wPLrlOck8uU/) | 2026-01-03 | Long-form | 416,670 | 8:43 | 0.87x |
| [How the USSR Almost Invented the Internet](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/JUa2d40qVos/) | 2025-12-27 | Long-form | 474,642 | 9:41 | 0.99x |
| [Was Jesus Guilty?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/VXoJB4XfQpU/) | 2025-12-03 | Long-form | 481,514 | 10:17 | 1.04x |
| [Why Didn't China Conquer Taiwan?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/GoZzs73FVko/) | 2025-08-03 | Long-form | 583,344 | 10:49 | 1.15x |
| [Who Was the Worst Pope of All Time?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/OzY00opZizE/) | 2025-07-14 | Long-form | 593,862 | 11:56 | 1.44x |
| [How Close Were the Nazis to Nuclear Weapons?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/FeEJyzd5qdQ/) | 2025-05-25 | Long-form | 446,625 | 8:43 | 1.08x |
| [Why Was India Partitioned After Independence?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/4VMLTmksq3Y/) | 2025-05-11 | Long-form | 362,661 | 14:47 | 0.96x |
| [When Did Salt Stop Being Expensive?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/bHgWkiHZY8I/) | 2025-04-13 | Long-form | 836,687 | 7:56 | 2.22x |
| [Why Didn't China Conquer Korea?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/rLVjF8wl-7E/) | 2025-01-06 | Long-form | 698,659 | 9:30 | 1.85x |
| [Were Horses Regulated Before Cars?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/7RRYzaUYQAM/) | 2024-07-31 | Long-form | 191,898 | 8:10 | 0.51x |
| [Why Didn't We Domesticate Beavers?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/AejJOJWHgNI/) | 2024-07-17 | Long-form | 379,377 | 8:01 | 1x |
| [Why Didn't America Nuke the USSR in 1945?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/-DN0xjYUoTU/) | 2024-05-01 | Long-form | 375,256 | 9:02 | 0.94x |
| [When Did England and France Stop Being Enemies? #history #animation #sidequest](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/lQ616dwLxfw/) | 2024-04-29 | Short | 262,919 | 1:00 | - |
| [When Did England and France Stop Being Enemies?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/XXbaqhpTDlA/) | 2024-04-23 | Long-form | 569,765 | 8:35 | 1.32x |
| [How to Read Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/emn_nqbETco/) | 2024-01-09 | Long-form | 274,651 | 11:30 | 0.63x |
| [How to Be a Kamikaze Pilot](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/Fan82RbThVU/) | 2023-12-29 | Long-form | 447,469 | 9:42 | 0.93x |
| [How to Drop a Nuclear Bomb](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/Wt--IF3qrwc/) | 2023-11-14 | Long-form | 458,576 | 11:11 | - |
| [Who Wore the First Watch?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/K-Mz8H5SGp8/) | 2023-09-05 | Long-form | 150,545 | 6:31 | - |
| [Which WW2 Tank Was the Tankiest?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/VGPf-feJfN4/) | 2023-07-15 | Long-form | 250,506 | 6:59 | - |
| [Who Were the Last German Holdouts in WW2?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/R558aqUXChY/) | 2023-06-06 | Long-form | 1,769,651 | 9:02 | 3.55x |
| [Why Didn't the Chinese Colonize America?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/qBLN0fjeUfM/) | 2023-01-31 | Long-form | 771,897 | 7:02 | 1.6x |
| [How to Get Rich After Destroying the USSR](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/LwEjAtNi9IA/) | 2022-12-19 | Long-form | 382,553 | 7:28 | 0.83x |
| [How to Become a Medieval Aristocrat](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/Q4jFLquvIBw/) | 2022-11-18 | Long-form | 416,098 | 6:17 | 0.86x |
| [Why Didn't the Roman Empire Industrialize?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/7UB3SHBaMsw/) | 2022-09-24 | Long-form | 1,568,354 | 5:43 | - |
| [How to Command a WW2 Submarine](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/1YY5EXsoEeA/) | 2022-09-04 | Long-form | 661,548 | 6:46 | - |
| [When Did Britain's Kings Lose Their Power?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/8wEQ2GaINlY/) | 2022-08-20 | Long-form | 1,345,091 | 6:46 | - |
| [How to Steal a Central Bank](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/x9P-pYGu_ws/) | 2022-07-26 | Long-form | 515,469 | 9:38 | - |
| [How to Be a Victorian Arms Dealer](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/3y-D0meHrTs/) | 2022-06-14 | Long-form | 1,343,299 | 7:37 | - |
| [That Time England Almost Converted to Islam](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/dxbRA8Ss6zY/) | 2022-05-07 | Long-form | 2,751,311 | 6:09 | - |
| [How to Be a Cat in Ancient Egypt](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/xlK16lzyySU/) | 2022-03-31 | Long-form | 482,627 | 6:44 | - |
| [That Time the Pope Was a Woman](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/R5aEUzQ4zkQ/) | 2021-11-13 | Long-form | 442,352 | 5:02 | - |
| [The Cinderella Story of Sweden's French King](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/qHVnnxWfNjA/) | 2021-10-02 | Long-form | 433,956 | 6:55 | - |
| [How Spain (Narrowly) Became a Democracy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@sidequestyt/videos/WYts75ZEsIE/) | 2021-07-14 | Long-form | 748,554 | 6:21 | - |

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