Lost Legacy

Subscribers 225K

Videos 35

Views 23.5M

Channels Like Lost Legacy

Lost Legacy focuses on storytelling, history, and animation to explore what life could have been like in different historical contexts, combining historical topics with narrative-style exploration. The channel presents long-form-style videos about alternative lives in historical settings, with a keyword set including stick figure, history, and why it sucked, and recent uploads feature 'Your Life as...' scenarios, indicating a deep-dives orientation rather than quick tutorials or vlogs. Uploads appear to be infrequent, averaging around 0 views per video in recent listings, with an overall catalog of 35 videos and 23.5M total views since joining YouTube in November 2024.

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#1

TED-Ed view on YouTube ▶

79% relevance

Subscribers 22.4M

Videos 2.3K

Views 4.5B

Appearances 17

SERP 100%

Similarity 65%

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High overlap with Lost Legacy on ancient cultures and medieval history topics (100% search overlap; 65% content overlap), indicating shared audience interested in concise, educational history content but differing in presentation style (TED-Ed is more animation-based lessons vs. Lost Legacy's narrative history storytelling).

#2

CrashCourse view on YouTube ▶

70% relevance

Subscribers 16.9M

Videos 1.6K

Views 2.2B

Appearances 15

SERP 84%

Similarity 61%

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Significant search overlap on gender roles and slave history education (84% search), with moderate content similarity (61%), suggesting a shared history-focused audience but CrashCourse often delivers faster-paced, course-like video formats compared to Lost Legacy's deeper narrative approach.

#3

PBS Origins

61% relevance

Subscribers 675K

Videos 260

Views 48.2M

Appearances 5

SERP 47%

Similarity 71%

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Moderate search overlap on gender roles history (47%), high content similarity (71%), implying a similar educational angle and focus on historical topics, though PBS Origins tends to incorporate more documentary-style presentation and sourcing.

#4

The Shogunate

61% relevance

Subscribers 223K

Videos 304

Views 28.6M

Appearances 5

SERP 46%

Similarity 72%

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Comparable interest in ninja and samurai topics (search 46%), very high content similarity (72%), indicating a shared niche audience interested in Japanese history, with The Shogunate often emphasizing myth-busting and lore.

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Weird History view on YouTube ▶

59% relevance

Subscribers 4.7M

Videos 1K

Views 716.5M

Appearances 10

SERP 51%

Similarity 65%

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Overlap on ancient cultures and medieval daily life (51% search), decent content alignment (65%), showing a shared curiosity for quirky or lesser-known historical facets, albeit Weird History emphasizes entertaining curiosities over structured narratives.

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58% relevance

Subscribers 525K

Videos 309

Views 86.4M

Appearances 7

SERP 29%

Similarity 78%

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Queries around courtesans and samurai myths yield moderate search overlap (29%), high content similarity (78%), signaling a shared interest in stylized historical narratives about fringe figures with a mythic tilt.

Content Landscape

Discovered competitors include TED-Ed (79% match) and CrashCourse (70% match) as top competitors, with PBS Origins and The Shogunate also showing strong alignment at 61% match. The overlapping queries driving competition include ancient cultures life, medieval history topics, slave history education, gender roles history, and historical gender roles. TED-Ed leads in subscriber count with 22.4M, followed by CrashCourse with 16.9M, while Lost Legacy has 225K subscribers, highlighting a significant size gap. These channels compete on historical storytelling and educational history content, particularly around ancient cultures, medieval life, and slave history education.

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#8	54%	Historian Sleepless	67%	48.2K	36%	5
#9	53%	The School of Life ▶	72%	9.6M	26%	2
#10	53%	Kings and Generals ▶	66%	4.1M	33%	6
#11	53%	Serious History ▶	70%	692K	28%	8
#12	53%	ANIMATED LIFE LINES	78%	93.4K	15%	3
#13	53%	Let's ask Shogo \| Katana, Budo, & Kimono	75%	1.9M	19%	4
#14	53%	Historically	70%	876K	27%	3
#15	52%	History Hit	68%	1.9M	29%	4
#16	52%	National Geographic ▶	68%	25.9M	28%	6
#17	52%	Nicole Rudolph ▶	67%	332K	29%	2
#18	52%	Sleepless Historian	71%	694K	22%	8
#19	52%	Possible History	68%	260K	27%	2
#20	50%	LMN	66%	1.2M	28%	5
#21	50%	Chat History	72%	981K	18%	3
#22	50%	Mythic Women	71%	151K	20%	3
#23	50%	ANIKI	68%	100K	23%	2
#24	50%	MedievalMadness	72%	495K	16%	2
#25	49%	Well, I Never	70%	608K	19%	3
#26	49%	Forgotten Lives	71%	393K	15%	4
#27	49%	Curious Muse	60%	221K	32%	2
#28	49%	Big Think ▶	63%	8.6M	27%	2
#29	48%	Motiversity Quotes	67%	186K	21%	2
#30	48%	Joe Scott	65%	2.5M	23%	3
#31	48%	English Avenue	67%	1.2M	20%	2
#32	48%	Blundera	66%	35.8K	20%	3
#33	47%	AlternateHistoryHub	66%	2.5M	19%	6
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#35	47%	The Rest Is History	66%	443K	19%	3
#36	47%	NBC News Learn	65%	40.5K	20%	4
#37	46%	Metatron	67%	1M	16%	3
#38	46%	HISTORY ▶	63%	15.2M	20%	3
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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to Lost Legacy?

Lost Legacy's biggest YouTube competitors are TED-Ed (79% match, 22.4M subscribers), CrashCourse (70% match, 16.9M subscribers), and PBS Origins (61% match, 675K subscribers). They share a focus on educational, history-related content presented in engaging, explainers or historical overview formats.

What type of content does Lost Legacy make?

Lost Legacy creates history-themed, educational content as suggested by video titles like Your Life as a Concubine, Your Life as a Medieval Torturer, Your Life as a Geisha, Your Life as an Oiran, Why It Sucked to Be a Samurai. The channel has an average of about 0 views per video based on recent uploads and approximately 0.0 uploads per week; typical videos appear to explore historical roles and life scenarios.

How do we determine which channels are similar to Lost Legacy?

We analyze Lost Legacy's recent videos, generate topic-relevant search queries, check YouTube search results, and compare the meaning of each channel's content to measure similarity. The result is a ranked list sorted by SERP overlap, semantic similarity, and search appearances.

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