How many views did “WW2 - OverSimplified (Part 1)” get?

OverSimplified · published 2019-05-17 · TubeCount #66, played 2026-08-16

Why this one

OverSimplified's WW2 Part 1 doesn't have 15 million views or 30 million views. It has 104 million. A cartoon where stick figures stumble through the causes of the deadliest conflict in human history — narrated with exasperated sarcasm — is now the most-watched history video on the platform, by a significant margin. The mechanism is pure search traffic: every student, every autodidact, every person who left history class confused and returned to YouTube looking for a second chance at it found this video first. OverSimplified's 9.5 million subscribers are irrelevant to the number; the channel benefited from being the answer that appeared when the entire internet asked the same question.

How everyone did

7 players called this one. The average score was 33 out of 100, and on the thumbnail alone people were typically 44× off.