How many views did “Pranking Scammers ft. Mark Rober” get?

Jim Browning · published 2022-05-08 · TubeCount #50, played 2026-07-31

Why this one

Jim Browning's channel averages about 1.1 million views per upload — a devoted anti-scam audience, technically sophisticated and numerically modest. In May 2022 he released a scam-busting collab with Mark Rober, and the number was 11.3 million: ten times his baseline. The mechanism is textbook collab math when both audiences are genuinely curious about the same problem — Browning's subscribers are people who understand exactly how call-centre fraud works; Rober's 78-million-subscriber audience includes every person who's ever received a suspicious phone call. When two audiences with perfect overlap collide on a single video, the recommendation engine treats it as a signal from two directions at once. Most collabs don't have this; this one did, and the algorithm noticed.

How everyone did

8 players called this one. The average score was 37 out of 100, and on the thumbnail alone people were typically 15× off.