How many views did “Fred Loses His Meds” get?

FRED · published 2008-05-08 · TubeCount #57, played 2026-08-07

Why this one

Fred Figglehorn was the first YouTube channel to reach one million subscribers, in 2009 — a milestone that felt like a ceiling at the time. Lucas Cruikshank played a helium-voiced six-year-old with an anger disorder, and the demographic that found this terminally funny was, specifically, actual six-year-olds. The channel now does about 30,000 views per upload, a quiet retirement. 'Fred Loses His Meds' has 40 million — the signature video of the first YouTube celebrity, watched primarily by children who no longer exist in the form that watched it. The cultural memory of Fred feels larger than 40 million, which is the tell: fame and view counts have never been the same number.

How everyone did

6 players called this one. The average score was 40 out of 100, and on the thumbnail alone people were typically 40× off.