Viral Content Week #23 — Nov 3–9: 8 YouTube videos, 5 Reddit posts, and a No. 1 from a channel four days old
Two channels opened days before their uploads took the week's top two YouTube slots on 207 million views between them, Reddit's biggest posts were all about the midterm results, and no checkable platformwide weekly ranking exists for TikTok or Instagram, so the list covers YouTube and Reddit.
The biggest video of the week holds 109,653,899 views. The channel that posted it opened on November 1, four days before the upload. 12
Between them, the two accounts hold thirty videos and no audience older than eight days.
This issue covers what was published between November 3 and November 9, 2026. YouTube entries run in order of view count, Reddit entries in order of score.
The video list ranks what reached YouTube's US trending boards across eleven categories, read on Monday afternoon. The Reddit list is the top of r/popular, Reddit's aggregated feed of popular subreddits.
Every figure here is a snapshot from that window, and all of these counts keep moving.
One coverage boundary holds. TikTok and Instagram publish no platformwide weekly ranking that can be checked from outside, so the lists below cover YouTube and Reddit.
It was midterm week, and the two platforms spent it differently: Reddit's biggest posts were mostly about the vote, and YouTube's biggest videos were mostly about babies.
YouTube
1. "When you realize your parents had another baby and you have to take full charge now! 🍼👶😅" — Sophia Family
109,653,899 views, 615,017 likes, 1,274 comments. Published November 5; runtime 0:29. 1
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The thumbnail is a single vertical frame in a dark bedroom. A toddler in a blue "Sophia" T-shirt and pink leggings sits on the bed, and a swaddled newborn in a hospital beanie lies beside her. A doorway behind them is lit by a bedside lamp.
@sophiafamily-k1y opened on November 1, 2026. It holds 55,300 subscribers, 19 uploads and 103,311,732 lifetime views, about 5.4 million an upload. 2
The clip ran 1,983 times the subscriber count and 20.2 times the channel average. This one upload is 6.3 million views larger than the channel's entire lifetime total.
Its like rate is 0.56%, and its 1,274 comments come to one per 86,071 views.
Twenty-nine seconds hold one scene, and the joke arrives in the title. The toddler's face does the rest.
2. "one sweet kiss, and the funniest surprise! 🥹😂 This golden lady moment is pure happiness! 💛" — Tiny Little Chaos
97,227,641 views, 1,013,385 likes, 5,288 comments. Published November 4; runtime 0:31. 3
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The thumbnail shows a baby in a cream sleepsuit reaching up to touch the face of a gilded bronze statue of a girl on a park bench, with a woman in a white dress behind and summer trees beyond her.
@thetinylittlechaos opened on November 2, 2026, and declares India. It holds 121,000 subscribers, 11 uploads and 98,113,191 lifetime views, about 8.9 million an upload. 4
The clip ran 804 times the subscriber count and 10.9 times the channel average. Ninety-nine per cent of the channel's lifetime views sit in this one upload.
Its million likes are a 1.04% rate, and its 5,288 comments come to one per 18,386 views.
The clip runs silently: a baby offers affection to something that cannot return it.
3. "I made a DIY payment ring from a credit card! #diy #lifehacks #tech" — Crafter Duck GARAGE
97,173,717 views, 1,500,938 likes, 14,640 comments. Published November 3; runtime 3:00. 5
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The thumbnail is a vertical frame of hands turning a bright cyan credit card over a dark workbench, a maroon door and dark machinery around them. The finished ring stays out of frame.
The description lists every step, from cutting the card to lifting the NFC chip out and polishing the finished ring. 5
@crafterduckgarage opened on October 29, 2025, and declares Cyprus. It holds 814,000 subscribers, 29 uploads and 1,407,087,099 lifetime views, about 48.5 million an upload. 6
The clip ran 119 times the subscriber count and 2.0 times the channel average, the smallest multiple here.
Its 1,500,938 likes are the largest total of the eight and a 1.54% rate. Its 14,640 comments come to one per 6,638 views.
Three minutes is long for this list. The video earns them: a card gets destroyed, a ring gets made, and the payoff works.
4. "Why Is Ronaldo Last ? 🤔🔥" — GunBrick
57,380,334 views, 410,949 likes, 347 comments. Published November 4; runtime 1:06. 7
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Five footballer heads run across a white wall in the thumbnail, the third outlined in green. A hand holds a gold plate reading "LAMINE YAMAL" beneath a row of pins, and a second hand at the edge holds a golden frame showing another player.
@thegunbrick opened on May 24, 2024, and declares the US. It holds 1,230,000 subscribers, 443 uploads and 1,621,548,811 lifetime views, about 3.7 million an upload. 8
The clip ran 47 times the subscriber count and 15.7 times the channel average.
Its 347 comments come to one per 165,361 views, the thinnest column here by nearly a factor of two. Its like rate is 0.72%.
The title asks a question and the thumbnail shows the ranking half-built, which is enough to pull 57 million people in. Then the video answers it, and 347 people had something to add.
5. "Baby Thought Everyone Got Berries Except Her! 😭😂 #familyfun" — little family moments
56,971,842 views, 295,444 likes, 441 comments. Published November 3; runtime 0:31. 9
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The thumbnail catches a toddler mid-wail at the dinner table, yellow bib on, both fists up, a red domed cover in front of her. A woman sits on one side and a man on the other, each with a bowl of berries.
@ourlittlechaos_6 opened on September 7, 2026, and declares the US. It holds 222,000 subscribers, 101 uploads and 523,158,008 lifetime views, about 5.2 million an upload. 10
The clip ran 257 times the subscriber count and 11.0 times the channel average. Its like rate is 0.52%, and its 441 comments come to one per 129,188 views.
The description lays out the trick: the child is given a reason to cry, the parents hold the correction, and dad lifts the red cover to reveal her own bowl of berries.
6. "Bottle Flip🎉😎" — TAIKISLIFE / タイキライフ
46,044,771 views, 817,151 likes, 2,833 comments. Published November 7; runtime 0:12. 11
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The thumbnail has a man kneeling on tatami in a blue patterned shirt, a small bottle in the air above a cardboard target with three holes cut in it, two of them holding water bottles. A television behind him shows his channel name and the words "0 SUBSCRIBERS".
@taikislife428 opened on March 19, 2022. It holds 9,210,000 subscribers, 2,181 uploads and 1,506,321,844 lifetime views, about 691,000 an upload. 12
The clip ran 66.7 times the channel average, the largest multiple of the eight, and five times its subscriber count, the smallest.
Its like rate is 1.77%, the second highest here, and its 2,833 comments come to one per 16,253 views.
Twelve seconds, one skill, one attempt. Anybody watching can try it with the bottle on their own desk.
7. "Comment 'DINO' if you want one! 🦖💚 #nonverbal #latetalker #toddlermom #speechdelay" — Dino Says
29,574,669 views, 148,818 likes, 1,307 comments. Published November 5; runtime 0:19. 13
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The thumbnail shows a boy in a blue-and-white raglan shirt pressing a green plush dinosaur against a wall sticker of a tree. Words over the frame read "This is Dino that turned pointing into the words".
@thedinosays opened on September 5, 2026. It holds 100,000 subscribers, 124 uploads and 240,563,354 lifetime views, about 1.9 million an upload. 14
The clip ran 296 times the subscriber count and 15.2 times the channel average. Its like rate is 0.50%, the lowest of the eight, and its 1,307 comments come to one per 22,628 views.
The hashtags name the audience: nonverbal children, late talkers, the parents counting words. The ask in the title drew 1,307 replies, a small return on 29 million views.
8. "Moments Jesus SAVED Them ✝️🔥 #jesussaves #faith #viralshorts #holyprotection" — HaLan-AA
22,400,524 views, 665,729 likes, 37,246 comments. Published November 6; runtime 1:00. 15
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The thumbnail belongs to a ranking clip. A man with purple hair in a pink polo shouts at the camera in a toy-store aisle, a pink jar in his hand, "RANKING THE BEST Hair Dye Transitions" across the top and a "SUBSCRIBE" strip along the bottom.
@halan-aa opened on July 3, 2026. It holds 244,000 subscribers, 8 uploads and 23,749,181 lifetime views, about 3.0 million an upload. 16
The clip ran 92 times the subscriber count and 7.5 times the channel average. Its 22,400,524 views are 94% of everything the channel has ever been watched for.
Its like rate is 2.97%, the highest of the eight. Its 37,246 comments come to one per 601 views, twenty-seven times denser than the next entry here.
The channel describes itself as ranking videos and "inspiring clips of Jesus to spread love, faith, and positivity"; this upload is the second half of that. Faith content pulls a written reply the way a bottle flip cannot.
The five entries below are the highest-scoring posts on r/popular for the week, ordered by score.
1. "me_irl" — r/me_irl
134k score, 1.1k comments, 95% upvoted. Posted November 5 by u/weaver3294. 17
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The image is a meme: white lettering reads "MOVES TESLA HQ TO TEXAS TO ESCAPE DEMS", over a photograph of a grinning schoolboy in a plaid shirt against a purple backdrop. Tesla moved its headquarters to Austin in 2021. 18
The joke needed Tuesday's result, when Texas elected a Democratic senator for the first time since 1988. 19
The thread runs the joke forward. The top text comment, at 4.3k, is u/Ill_Dragonfruit_453: "Elon had a big hand in flipping texas, even when he spent half a billion trying to prevent it."
u/archthechef, at 1.1k, brings in a Texas chain: "Let's not forget Buc-ees swore not to operate in blue states."
The poster's background is not public.
2. "Happy Blue Wave!" — r/comics
134k score, 2.9k comments, 77% upvoted. Posted November 4 by u/Pizzacakecomic. 20
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The post is a two-panel comic by PizzaCake. A woman at a laptop in a dim room says, "Okay, no more avoiding it. I gotta see how the Americans voted..." In the second panel her face is lit blue from the screen, eyes wide.
Democrats won the House and the Senate, taking both chambers for the first time since 2023. 21
The thread opens at 11k with u/shellbullet17, a Texan: "Today makes the first time in the entirety of my life that I have even been alive much less lived in this state and it been Blue."
At 794, u/White_Winged_Fox asks what makes a midterm matter and then edits in the answer: the Democrats took both chambers, so the president's power is cut.
A 77% upvote share is the lowest of the five, on the second-heaviest thread: its supporters upvote, and its opponents arrive to argue.
3. "HIV is no longer a terminal disease" — r/interesting
122k score, 1.9k comments, 95% upvoted. Posted November 3 by u/Negative_1by12_aura. 22
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The image is a graphic: two electron-microscope views of virus particles, one gold on blue, one orange-red, above the words "IT'S OFFICIAL — HIV IS NO LONGER A TERMINAL DISEASE!"
The claim is accurate, and it has been for years. With antiretroviral treatment, HIV is a manageable chronic condition; untreated, it weakens the immune system and can progress to AIDS. 23
The thread spends itself on the gap between those two facts. The top comment, at 5.3k, is u/cmhamm: "Hasn't this been true for a pretty long time? I mean, Magic Johnson has had HIV for over 35 years, and is still quite alive."
At 505, u/oscarink says the only other thing that changed was "a large pile of cash", and at 73 u/LostMyFuckingSanity points at the treatment gap: "In the US. Im sure its plenty deadly across Africa."
The poster's background is not public.
4. "[OC] Street light by the Alex Pretti memorial today" — r/pics
114k score, 539 comments, 96% upvoted. Posted November 4 by u/thedubiousstylus. 24
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The photograph shows a wooden utility pole on a wet pavement, covered from waist height to above a head in red "I VOTED" stickers, with a purple "FUTURE VOTER" sticker among them. Flowers, a white T-shirt and a handwritten cardboard sign sit at the base.
Alex Pretti and Renee Good were shot and killed by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis earlier in 2026, during Operation Metro Surge. On election day, hundreds of people left their voting stickers at the two memorials. 25
The top comment, at 10k, is u/Due_Willingness1: "Like the other posts today say, we vote because he can't anymore." At 4.5k, u/Glass_Thing3097 finds their own sticker in the shot and lists who it was for: "For Alex. For Renee. For the Ramos family."
The photograph is the poster's own, marked [OC] in the title.
5. "90 years old, James Thomas completed his 43rd NYC Marathon, his last one." — r/MadeMeSmile
114k score, 844 comments, 98% upvoted. Posted November 3 by u/nutznboltsguy. 26
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The post is a short video of a finish line at night: a runner in a yellow shirt and a race bib comes down the chute with his arms up, and text over the frame reads "The Last Man To Finish Has Been Running The NYC Marathon Since 1980".
James Thomas is 78. He crossed the line at 11:20 p.m. on November 1 as the last finisher of the 2026 New York City Marathon, his 43rd since he started running in 1980. 27
The thread's biggest comments are arithmetic and warmth. u/Hotchi_Motchi, at 8.9k: "If he's been running the marathon since 1980, it took him 46 years to finish the race."
At 388, u/KennethTremendous fixes the headline: "James Thomas is 78 and this was his 43rd consecutive marathon... but he's not 90." The comment then names two runners who were 90 and finished.
The 98% upvote share is the highest of the five.
The poster's background is not public.
What the week actually shared
Eight videos, 516,427,397 views. Their likes total 5,467,431, on 63,376 comments.
Five of the eight channels opened this year, four of them since September. Together they hold 315,828,575 of those views, 61% of the list.
Two uploads outran their own channels. Sophia's 109.7 million is 6.3 million more than its channel's lifetime total, and HaLan-AA's 22.4 million is 94% of its.
Six of the eight run under 70 seconds. The exceptions are a 1:06 ranking and a 3:00 build. The shortest, at 0:12, came from the biggest channel on the list.
Comment columns separate these videos. HaLan-AA takes one comment per 601 views and TAIKISLIFE one per 16,253. GunBrick takes one per 165,361.
On midterm week, the video board barely noticed. The first political video among the fifty most-viewed in this window is Saturday Night Live's post-midterm cold open, at 9,977,307 views and 31st place. 28 The top entry drew eleven times as much.
Reddit went the other way. Seven of the twenty highest-scoring posts of the week were about the election, and the two at the top were jokes about the result.
The correction lived in the comments. A post titled "90 years old" carried a 78-year-old man, and the thread fixed it kindly.
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- 4Tiny Little Chaos — YouTube
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- 6Crafter Duck GARAGE — YouTube
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- 7Why Is Ronaldo Last? — YouTube
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- 8GunBrick — YouTube
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- 10little family moments — YouTube
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- 11Bottle Flip — YouTube
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- 12TAIKISLIFE / タイキライフ — YouTube
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- 13Comment "DINO" if you want one! — YouTube
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- 14Dino Says — YouTube
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- 15Moments Jesus SAVED Them — YouTube
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- 16HaLan-AA — YouTube
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- 17me_irl — Reddit
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- 20Happy Blue Wave! — Reddit
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- 27NYC Marathon: 78-year-old completes 43rd race — NewsNation
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- 28Post-Midterm Cold Open - SNL — YouTube
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