This. produces science-focused content with a humorous tone, offering tutorials and explanations on topics like brain function, perception, magnets, touch screens, sound, and procrastination. The channel publishes a new video irregularly (average around 6 minutes per video) with an average view count near 819K and has 18 videos since joining in November 2023, totaling 24.5M views and 755K subscribers.
Both target audiences seeking science communication and psychology topics, with high search overlap on queries like how brains work and psychology humor, though TEDx Talks emphasizes standalone talks rather than regular series, resulting in a strong search match but varied content style.
Similar to This in covering science and brain-related topics and humor-inflected science, sharing searches for funny science and how brains work, yet TED-Ed delivers animated educational shorts, creating similar intent but different presentation format.
Shares audience interest in funny science and hands-on science concepts (magnet, sound), with medium search overlap but higher content alignment on practical experiments, aligning more with demonstrations than This's style.
Overlaps with audience interest in science tricks and optical illusions, showing notable search overlap on touch screen and optics queries, but content centers on short, quirky life-hack style videos rather than This's brain science focus.
Both address psychology humor and brain science basics, with substantial search overlap on these topics; However, Professor Dave often leans into instructional science explanation, creating a similar audience but a more textbook-oriented tone.
Shares interest in touch screen tech, sound science, and camera basics, yielding solid search alignment; Branch Education tends toward educational experiments and practical tech demos, differentiating in content approach from This.
Content Landscape
Discovered competitors include TEDx Talks (80% match, 44.2M subscribers) and TED-Ed (77% match, 22.4M subscribers) as top contenders due to overlapping queries like science communication and how brains work. These creators are larger in audience and share similar themes around psychology humor and science explainer content. Science Max - Scholastic (63% match, 533K subscribers) also competes on funny science and magnet/sound science topics, while BRIGHT SIDE (62% match, 44.7M subscribers) and Professor Dave Explains (62% match, 4.2M subscribers) further mirror interests in touch screen science and brain science humor, positioning This. within a landscape of high-visibility education and science entertainment channels.
TEDx Talks (80% match, 44.2M subscribers) and TED-Ed (77% match, 22.4M subscribers) are This.'s biggest competitors. Science Max - Scholastic is also a competitor (63% match, 533K subscribers). They all share a focus on educational science content and explanations of scientific concepts.
What type of content does This. make?
This. creates educational science content exploring how things work, with video titles like The Science of Procrastination (and how to stop) and How Do Painkillers Know Where the Pain is?. The channel uploads at about 0.2 videos per week, and each video averages about 819.2K views.
How do we determine which channels are similar to This.?
We analyze This.'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.
