How many views did “Mike plays hide and seek with Uncle at home” get?

Vlad and Niki · published 2026-05-01 · TubeCount #89, played 2026-09-08

Why this one

Vlad and Niki have 150 million subscribers — the third-largest channel on YouTube, behind only T-Series and Cocomelon. A hide-and-seek video with Uncle Mike: 590,000 views. The channel's peak era was 2019–2021, when the Brekotkin family's bilingual format was the dominant force in children's content; the subscriber count reflects that window of dominance, not the current algorithmic footprint. Kids age out of the format in 12 to 18 months; parents cancel the subscription less often than they simply stop watching. The recommendation system routes children's content by age-group engagement signal rather than subscriber count — a 150-million-subscriber channel producing content for four-year-olds is algorithmically equivalent to any other channel producing content for four-year-olds, if it no longer commands the watch-time that earned those subscribers. The 590K are the currently active core audience; the 149.4 million subscriptions are an archive of who used to watch.

How everyone did

10 players called this one. The average score was 37 out of 100, and on the thumbnail alone people were typically 9.2× off.