How many views did “Cicada 3301: An Internet Mystery” get?

LEMMiNO · published 2018-05-19 · TubeCount #64, played 2026-08-14

Why this one

LEMMiNO's channel normally draws 6.3 million views per video — a committed audience for internet mystery documentaries, the kind that watches every upload but doesn't spread them. Cicada 3301 is the internet puzzle that defined the early 2010s ARG scene: a series of increasingly complex cryptographic challenges posted to 4chan that nobody has ever fully explained. The video arrives in 2018 and hasn't left: 41 million people watched a 20-minute explainer about a puzzle that attracted roughly 10,000 solvers at its peak. The ratio is the whole story — 41 million viewers of a video about a community of 10,000. The mystery draws people who will never attempt to solve it, at 6.5 times the pace of anything else LEMMiNO has made.

How everyone did

14 players called this one. The average score was 40 out of 100, and on the thumbnail alone people were typically 10× off.