# ThePrimeagen: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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

As of 2026-10-29, ThePrimeagen has 550,000 subscribers, 58,439,760 total views, and 109 videos. It ranks #138,874 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [ThePrimeagen](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/). 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 ThePrimeagen is “am I becoming a real Game Dev?”, a long-form video published Aug 6, 2026.
- These are ThePrimeagen’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Mar 31, 2023 and Aug 6, 2026 (20 long-form videos and 28 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 233,497. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “This Is A Game Changer” (5,479,911 views, Jun 5, 2024). Least viewed: “He did WHAT to the DB?” (39,812 views, Aug 7, 2025).
- Median length: 8:16 for 20 long-form videos; 0:37 for 28 Shorts.
- In this sample, ThePrimeagen’s consecutive uploads were a median of 7 days apart (shortest gap 1 day, longest 275 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 30, 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [am I becoming a real Game Dev?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/tYQyh1tjSFc/) | 2026-08-06 | Long-form | 67,979 | 13:03 | - |
| [I like Game Programming](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/G8vdu30EEfw/) | 2026-07-17 | Long-form | 171,361 | 8:01 | 0.65x |
| [Layout is harder than you think..](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/js7_bCY6WEw/) | 2026-06-24 | Long-form | 130,518 | 21:12 | 1.05x |
| [I learned Odin](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/HwmqZTnb7Co/) | 2026-06-04 | Long-form | 247,341 | 9:59 | 0.86x |
| [I Hate Google](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/GKpwO-DGKiI/) | 2025-09-02 | Short | 484,595 | 0:30 | 2.01x |
| [WHY STARBUCKS, WHY?!?!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/q5jcjAQXiIU/) | 2025-08-22 | Short | 112,241 | 0:18 | - |
| [Prime picks one language (Challenge Level: Impossible)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/tLLQoF2JjAg/) | 2025-08-21 | Short | 496,519 | 1:12 | 2.37x |
| [A Billion Dollar Idea Gone Wrong](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/_iGHYwPU2WE/) | 2025-08-14 | Short | 78,877 | 1:11 | - |
| [He did WHAT to the DB?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/4zJHs_L-GOc/) | 2025-08-07 | Short | 39,812 | 0:59 | - |
| [Musician turned Programmer turned Musician](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/taoAAcS5PSw/) | 2025-07-20 | Long-form | 144,246 | 8:16 | 1.17x |
| [I was wrong btw](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/ZH3iKbEiks0/) | 2025-07-03 | Long-form | 925,122 | 18:00 | 2.68x |
| [the worst man in tech](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/A_XGsAl-LqY/) | 2024-10-23 | Long-form | 160,183 | 6:25 | 0.55x |
| [I Went To DEFCON!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/GwcFxTuMYmU/) | 2024-08-28 | Long-form | 438,259 | 16:25 | 1.52x |
| [This Keyboard](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/dhuX9t2j5Hc/) | 2024-07-07 | Short | 276,374 | 0:39 | 2.23x |
| [Find And Replace](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/v2a6Nv7RSd0/) | 2024-06-27 | Short | 1,907,063 | 0:27 | 9.32x |
| [We Have A Problem..](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/1-0r90bm6CE/) | 2024-06-23 | Short | 205,250 | 0:16 | 1.66x |
| [Programming Tier List 2024](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/c3yRbrYIUeo/) | 2024-06-22 | Short | 204,278 | 0:11 | 1.65x |
| [Programming Curves](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/_ebVsYQou8A/) | 2024-06-21 | Short | 4,449,768 | 0:51 | 20.78x |
| [Why Do I Suck At Programming?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/SEVD2nI4Bis/) | 2024-06-19 | Short | 212,864 | 0:35 | 1.72x |
| [Imposter Syndrome](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/u2trdurv638/) | 2024-06-18 | Short | 66,763 | 0:55 | - |
| [The Real Meaning of 42](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/JKPDfGhhWBY/) | 2024-06-17 | Short | 126,663 | 0:39 | 1.02x |
| [You Have Time...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/fIhZqY_XKsc/) | 2024-06-15 | Short | 180,974 | 0:32 | 1.46x |
| [AI Scuffed Programming](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/D9q5wnX2_DY/) | 2024-06-14 | Short | 2,340,730 | 0:52 | 1.4x |
| [1000 Players - One Game of Doom](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/3f9tbqSIm-E/) | 2024-06-13 | Long-form | 282,884 | 15:42 | 0.98x |
| [Imagine...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/3aGylFJAzTk/) | 2024-06-12 | Short | 145,644 | 0:09 | 1.18x |
| [Modern Software Engineering](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/WCwD_1Qm218/) | 2024-06-11 | Short | 1,998,346 | 0:40 | 1.13x |
| [Peak Production Code](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/ksBNx1vBm_0/) | 2024-06-09 | Short | 3,931,465 | 0:15 | 2.64x |
| [Code Mentor](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/i3TyJIyPm84/) | 2024-06-06 | Short | 215,323 | 0:43 | 1.74x |
| [This Is A Game Changer](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/M-VU0fLjIUU/) | 2024-06-05 | Short | 5,479,911 | 0:43 | 6.17x |
| [Easy Vim Motion](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/jHAOMOZ_DPI/) | 2024-06-03 | Short | 1,329,749 | 0:28 | 4.19x |
| [Do Something Different](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/P0XSS2Xst-U/) | 2024-06-02 | Short | 446,326 | 0:45 | 2.38x |
| [Math.sqrt](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/r3pGWijDzHE/) | 2024-06-01 | Short | 99,653 | 0:07 | - |
| [Magic Swap](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/DJxEYOC8IRc/) | 2024-05-31 | Short | 2,609,100 | 0:48 | 21.09x |
| [Don't Make This Mistake \| SWE](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/4P0HVCMX3kM/) | 2024-05-30 | Short | 1,880,367 | 0:50 | 11.22x |
| [How To Master JavaScript](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/I5_Gx3JNho8/) | 2024-05-29 | Short | 1,645,767 | 0:28 | 11.12x |
| [10 Years At Netflix](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/nbVSITerFkE/) | 2024-04-25 | Short | 147,979 | 0:17 | 1.2x |
| [This Is Goodbye](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/UWb1dw_kbvo/) | 2024-04-04 | Long-form | 524,506 | 4:21 | 2.04x |
| [FULL Introduction To HTMX Using Golang](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/x7v6SNIgJpE/) | 2024-03-13 | Long-form | 498,775 | 2:02:31 | 1.93x |
| [Will It Run Doom ?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/oUDj8p7z0tQ/) | 2024-01-31 | Short | 77,043 | 0:17 | - |
| [Are Developers Ok?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/SCPVDpyApgQ/) | 2024-01-10 | Long-form | 206,389 | 11:46 | 0.8x |
| [What You Need To Learn 2023 (as a software engineer)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/6jPiuOXmxEc/) | 2023-08-03 | Long-form | 294,602 | 3:45 | 1.15x |
| [I Fixed Git](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/o462tY758CY/) | 2023-07-26 | Long-form | 120,680 | 4:50 | - |
| [How To Learn A New Programming Language](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/E8cM12jRH7k/) | 2023-06-03 | Long-form | 394,967 | 6:24 | 1.79x |
| [Stepping Down From RustConf and Rust Project Controversy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/TB0cXGvuw9A/) | 2023-05-27 | Long-form | 105,084 | 3:30 | - |
| [This Lesson Taught Me How To Do Better Benchmarks](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/PHvbLmLPX6s/) | 2023-05-19 | Long-form | 73,555 | 5:59 | - |
| [Rust Foundation IS DOING WHAT????](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/gutR_LNoZw0/) | 2023-04-10 | Long-form | 362,739 | 8:17 | 1.67x |
| [Twitter's Algorithm Has MASSIVE Problems](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/2gG08VUuwzg/) | 2023-04-03 | Long-form | 219,652 | 5:01 | 1.05x |
| [How to Vim in 2023: Tips and Tricks](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theprimeagen/videos/FrMRyXtiJkc/) | 2023-03-31 | Long-form | 511,617 | 15:53 | 2.45x |

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