2026-03-19

# Subscriber count graphs of popular youtubers on ASI risk

Disclaimer
 - **Quick Note**
 - target audience - potential youtubers on ASI risk

Main
 - **It seems likely to me that these are among the most important graphs in human history, and whether our species lives or dies depends on these graphs.**
 - The most important thing to track is not the absolute number of subscribers as a function of time, but the slope in number of subcribers as a function of time. Youtube channels, like software apps, follow exponential growth curves. Most people are not used to thinking in terms of exponentials. Even a mediocre channel could grow if you make enough videos. A good channel will grow more quickly with lesser videos required.
 - I am tracking only youtube not twitter or substack, because the highest view counts are orders of magnitude higher. As of 2025-03, MrBeast has over 400 million subscribers. Top substack accounts have less than 10M subscribers. I am aware that all views are not equal, and views of powerful or technical people are worth more, for the AI pause political movement. (Update - I should probably publish twitter subscriber curves too, many accounts reaching 100k subs there as well)
 - Statistics obtained from viewstats by MrBeast on 2026-03-19. (Viewstats is also good for tracking outlier videos)

Rational Animations

![Rational Animations](../../non_text_non_video/viewstats_images/rationalanimations.jpeg "Rational Animations")

AI in context

![AI in context](../../non_text_non_video/viewstats_images/ai_in_context.jpeg "AI in context")

The AI Risk Network - John Sherman

![The AI Risk Network](../../non_text_non_video/viewstats_images/theairisknetwork.jpeg "The AI Risk Network")

AI Species - Drew Spartz

![AI Species](../../non_text_non_video/viewstats_images/aispecies.jpeg "AI species")

Doom Debates - Liron Shapira

![Doom Debates](../../non_text_non_video/viewstats_images/doomdebates.jpeg "Doom Debates")

Lethal intelligence - Michael Zafiris

could not obtain graph - 162K subs

Rob Miles

![Rob Miles](../../non_text_non_video/viewstats_images/robmilesai.jpeg "Rob Miles")

Siliconversations - Liam

![Siliconversations](../../non_text_non_video/viewstats_images/siliconversations.jpeg "Siliconversations")

The Inside View - Michael Trazzi

![The Inside View](../../non_text_non_video/viewstats_images/theinsideview.jpeg "The Inside View")