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steinful
Subscribers 37.9K
Videos 16
Views 960.6K

Channels Like steinful

Steinful appears to produce deep-dives and video essays focused on internet culture, music subcultures, digital aesthetics, and retro media history, with irregular scheduling. The channel covers topics like city pop history, online communities, cosmonaut mysteries, and influential media figures, delivering long-form explorations rather than tutorials or vlogs. With 37.9K subscribers and about 960.6K total views across 16 videos, it averages roughly 47K views per video and maintains an implied cadence of a few uploads per month.

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83% relevance

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Videos 50
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SERP 100%
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Both target internet culture and media analysis through video essays, sharing high search overlap on queries like internet culture analysis and video essays on media; Steinful and oliSUNvia also align closely in content focus (72% content match) though oliSUNvia has a larger scale.

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SERP 100%
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77% relevance

Subscribers 834K
Videos 291
Views 80.8M
Appearances 7
SERP 79%
Similarity 76%
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Both explore internet culture and collective memory online, matching on searches for internet culture analysis (79%) and online collective memory, with a solid content alignment (76%), suggesting overlapping thematic territory and presentation.

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Navie D

75% relevance

Subscribers 374K
Videos 291
Views 32.2M
Appearances 4
SERP 84%
Similarity 70%
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Both channels touch on contemporary internet culture and niche subcultures (e.g., JPEGMAFIA style); high search overlap (84%) indicates shared topics, while content similarity (70%) shows they approach these topics with comparable video essay or analysis formats.

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Cal Does Life

74% relevance

Subscribers 107K
Videos 88
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SERP 76%
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Both discuss music subcultures and alt culture movements, with meaningful search overlap on music subculture topics (76%) and a strong content alignment (73%), indicating parallel interests expressed through documentary-style content.

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Harmost

68% relevance

Subscribers 1.3K
Videos 28
Views 281.5K
Appearances 5
SERP 66%
Similarity 70%
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Both focus on music subcultures, reflected by a solid search overlap (66%) and a high content match (70%), signaling similar subject matter delivered in a related style despite Harmost’s much smaller channel size.

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Content Landscape

Top competitors by match strength are oliSUNvia (83% match) and Tiffanyferg (77% match), with All Things Secured (80% match) and Navie D (75% match) also aligning closely. They share overlapping queries such as internet culture analysis, video essays on media, and online memory or JPEGMAFIA-style topics, indicating a common focus on media history, online communities, and digital aesthetics. Steinful sits in a smaller subscriber tier (37.9K) compared with oliSUNvia (1.2M), Tiffanyferg (834K), and All Things Secured (428K), while Navie D has 374K subscribers. The competitors collectively emphasize similar search intents around internet age nostalgia, music subcultures, and media analysis, meaning they compete for the same audience interested in documentary-style explorations of digital culture.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to steinful?

steنinful's biggest YouTube competitors are oliSUNvia (83% match, 1.2M subscribers), All Things Secured (80% match, 428K subscribers), and tiffanyferg (77% match, 834K subscribers). They share a focus on documentary-style content and video essays that explore topics like culture, history, and online phenomena.

What type of content does steinful make?

Steinful creates documentary-style video essays and gaming-related content, as suggested by titles like The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of City Pop, lost cosmonauts and why youtube sucks now, and The Man Who Saved Yeezus. The channel averages about 47K views per video. Upload frequency is described as approximately multiple times per week.

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