# What If: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-11-05, What If has 8,990,000 subscribers, 1,771,080,212 total views, and 1,705 videos. It ranks #3,598 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [What If](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/). 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 What If is “What If the Largest Black Hole Entered Our Solar System? #Shorts #BlackHole #SolarSystem”, a Short published Nov 4, 2026.
- These are What If’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Aug 14, 2026 and Nov 4, 2026 (24 long-form videos and 24 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 74,039. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “You Are Alive to Watch the Space Station Fall From the Sky” (1,648,200 views, Sep 18, 2026). Least viewed: “What If the Largest Black Hole Entered Our Solar System? #Shorts #BlackHole #SolarSystem” (4,976 views, Nov 4, 2026).
- Median length: 1:01:17 for 24 long-form videos; 1:25 for 24 Shorts.
- In this sample, What If’s consecutive uploads were a median of 1 day apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 5 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Nov 5, 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 the Largest Black Hole Entered Our Solar System? #Shorts #BlackHole #SolarSystem](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/cptg9v3ujso/) | 2026-11-04 | Short | 4,976 | 0:10 | - |
| [What Every World in the Solar System Would Do to Your Body](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/iorGWqzRmBo/) | 2026-11-03 | Long-form | 76,657 | 2:32:14 | - |
| [Why Saudi Arabia's $8.8 Trillion Megacity Was Suspended \| The Line Failure #Shorts #SaudiArabia](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/VI6yG1J7eCQ/) | 2026-11-03 | Short | 9,746 | 2:24 | - |
| [What Happens If You Jump In Ferrofluid? #Shorts #Ferrofluid #Science](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/vKXG0q46-HA/) | 2026-11-02 | Short | 15,795 | 1:20 | - |
| [Growing 1cm Every Second: What Happens? #Shorts #Titan #Giant #Space](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/Qi7GHcaeMrM/) | 2026-10-31 | Short | 55,134 | 2:52 | 1.82x |
| [The Insane Megastructure We Could Build in 31 Years](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/icYt2bWLYeU/) | 2026-10-30 | Long-form | 122,751 | 25:35 | 0.69x |
| [What If We Drained the Oceans? #Shorts #Ocean #Water #Earth](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/zGP53yKbSdE/) | 2026-10-29 | Short | 42,344 | 1:03 | 1.6x |
| [POV: What If All Nukes Exploded in Space? #Shorts #Nuke #Space](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/9A0HCnIltEc/) | 2026-10-28 | Short | 36,278 | 2:01 | 1.76x |
| [Earth Has Erased Every World That Came Before Us](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/3oJw2rxOY3g/) | 2026-10-27 | Long-form | 71,420 | 2:08:15 | - |
| [What If Earth Had Rings Like Saturn? #Shorts #Earth #Saturn](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/UsfpwGO-1Ws/) | 2026-10-27 | Short | 13,707 | 1:24 | - |
| [Type 7 Civilization: We Become God #Shorts #Humanity #Future](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/J4nroylj9hk/) | 2026-10-26 | Short | 16,619 | 0:48 | - |
| [What If Earth Had Rings Like Saturn?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/o25BhqVZwv0/) | 2026-10-23 | Long-form | 177,435 | 21:05 | 0.79x |
| [Apophis Will Fly Closer to Earth Than Some Satellites in 2029 #Shorts #Apophis #Space #Meteor](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/j9BCh1-H8ww/) | 2026-10-23 | Short | 39,609 | 1:12 | 1.79x |
| [What If You Discovered Alien Life? #Shorts #Alien #Aliens](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/LjJURp_O3VM/) | 2026-10-22 | Short | 20,561 | 2:48 | 1.11x |
| [Solar Storms Can Black Out Cities. Is Your Home Ready? #Shorts #SolarStorm](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/KassO03xy68/) | 2026-10-21 | Short | 9,401 | 2:10 | - |
| [The Scariest Black Hole Theories That Will Keep You Up at Night](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/YFfr14mjplo/) | 2026-10-21 | Long-form | 93,161 | 2:02:52 | - |
| [What If We Nuked a Hurricane? #Shorts #Hurricane #NaturalDisaster #Earth](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/dyFZlc2h3wk/) | 2026-10-20 | Short | 512,906 | 3:00 | 24.57x |
| [The Rarest Space Events We'll See In Our Lifetime (and the Ones We'll Unfortunately Miss)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/JLRZo-nVXKg/) | 2026-10-16 | Long-form | 191,014 | 23:58 | 0.66x |
| [What If Gravity Got 1% Stronger Every Day? #Shorts #Gravity #Earth #Science](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/JCRleSbG1d8/) | 2026-10-15 | Short | 35,174 | 0:56 | 1.63x |
| [You Are Alive to Watch Earth Get Hit From Above 10 Different Ways](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/fFeGzi4odZ0/) | 2026-10-14 | Long-form | 94,101 | 2:25:51 | - |
| [What If Gravity Got 1% Stronger Every Second?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/yoZ-jfFdYnI/) | 2026-10-09 | Long-form | 308,237 | 25:00 | 0.9x |
| [What If all Glaciers Melted, INSTANTLY? #Shorts #Glacier #GlobalWarming #NaturalDisaster](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/95NRyQVvkQo/) | 2026-10-08 | Short | 27,618 | 2:48 | 1.21x |
| [What If You Had Perfect Memory? #Shorts #Plaud #SecondBrain](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/maG0i6XpMG4/) | 2026-10-07 | Short | 14,278 | 1:32 | - |
| [Why the Universe Is Far Bigger Than You Think](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/7gg7f7TPl3o/) | 2026-10-07 | Long-form | 206,579 | 2:11:00 | - |
| [What If all Glaciers Melted, INSTANTLY (Hour by Hour)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/fNokPiGfviM/) | 2026-10-02 | Long-form | 1,038,287 | 21:49 | 2.68x |
| [Earth's CLOSEST Call to EXTINCTION: The Great Dying #Shorts #Earth #Extinction #Pangea #History](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/WKlZPZQK4TM/) | 2026-10-01 | Short | 30,757 | 2:12 | 1.33x |
| [You Are Falling Through the Entire Universe](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/o3FI87Fu8tY/) | 2026-09-29 | Long-form | 200,400 | 1:51:12 | - |
| [What If Pangea Still Existed Today?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/Y6RFeC87XRM/) | 2026-09-25 | Long-form | 211,891 | 24:29 | 0.6x |
| [You Are Alive to Watch the Space Station Fall From the Sky #Shorts #ISS #SpaceStation #NASA](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/ETZCpdS3VmY/) | 2026-09-24 | Short | 20,292 | 1:17 | - |
| [What If Earth Was No Longer Our Home?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/I5f3OE46Vmc/) | 2026-09-22 | Long-form | 210,554 | 1:30:03 | - |
| [You Are Alive to Watch the Space Station Fall From the Sky](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/plJVUFErhf8/) | 2026-09-18 | Long-form | 1,648,200 | 24:46 | 4.68x |
| [What If All the Oceans Disappeared Overnight #Shorts #Ocean #Earth](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/j2SMN_u8CbA/) | 2026-09-17 | Short | 20,031 | 2:56 | - |
| [What If We Swapped Our Moon For The Solar System’s Biggest Moon?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/LMkpcE8scyg/) | 2026-09-15 | Long-form | 159,657 | 2:03:45 | - |
| [What If All the Oceans Disappeared Overnight?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/BNjUiKnPyWY/) | 2026-09-11 | Long-form | 354,117 | 22:23 | 1x |
| [God of Chaos Asteroid: Close Call Incoming? #Shorts #Apophis #Asteroid #Space](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/vpZdoX9jfjQ/) | 2026-09-10 | Short | 21,858 | 0:58 | - |
| [Everything That Had to Go Right for Earth](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/hiawfXiJUY0/) | 2026-09-08 | Long-form | 277,413 | 2:02:42 | - |
| [What if you walked the solar system?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/a-3cj32Nynk/) | 2026-09-04 | Long-form | 577,897 | 23:02 | 1.5x |
| [AI Escapes OpenAI: Secret Messages & Data Breach! #Shorts #AI #ArtificialIntelligence](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/jjOh2dGIkB4/) | 2026-09-03 | Short | 22,382 | 1:27 | - |
| [We Found the Largest Exoplanet in the Universe (And It’s Terrifying)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/6HM3KEVhs74/) | 2026-09-01 | Long-form | 361,478 | 2:12:15 | - |
| [AI Only Needs 48 Weeks to Wipe Out Earth](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/9LR85VNrpAo/) | 2026-08-28 | Long-form | 236,498 | 32:31 | 0.61x |
| [Is The Speed of Light a LIE? Brains Live in the Future! #Shorts #Space #Science #SpeedOfLight](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/AwKp5bAyQzg/) | 2026-08-27 | Short | 28,498 | 1:29 | - |
| [What If We Swapped Our Sun With the Universe’s Deadliest Objects?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/z7LeU1V3_kU/) | 2026-08-26 | Long-form | 390,041 | 1:44:56 | - |
| [15 Space Facts You Learned Wrong](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/jMKSp6YD2gM/) | 2026-08-21 | Long-form | 420,347 | 20:56 | 0.92x |
| [What Happens If You Dive Into the Mariana Trench? 🌊 #Shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/5ijs_Iu28wo/) | 2026-08-21 | Short | 38,521 | 1:15 | - |
| [Could Mars Be Our Next Home? #Shorts #Mars #Earth #Science](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/GOJtzMlMbLQ/) | 2026-08-20 | Short | 46,239 | 0:39 | 1.01x |
| [What If Everything on Earth Changed at Once?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/nSbUuI7B1Jk/) | 2026-08-19 | Long-form | 129,390 | 2:04:01 | - |
| [Mariana Trench: Earth’s Deepest Point You Won’t Believe #Shorts #Ocean #Earth](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/Hg2dySEfiIU/) | 2026-08-17 | Short | 41,142 | 1:22 | - |
| [What If We Moved All 8 Billion People To Mars?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@whatifscienceshow/videos/3HhCClcp8mY/) | 2026-08-14 | Long-form | 350,888 | 26:50 | 0.79x |

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