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Subscribers 6.3M

Videos 426

Views 2.1B

Channels Like What Would You Do?

What Would You Do? covers public reaction and ethical dilemma scenarios in real-life social settings, focusing on hidden-camera-style content that examines bystander decisions and interpersonal conflicts. The channel explores moral choices in public through reality-style clips, with a frequent emphasis on dilemmas and social experiments. It publishes content regularly, drawing an audience across its 6.3 million subscribers and averaging roughly 245.8K views per video from 426 published works across a long-running run since 2015.

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#1

TED-Ed view on YouTube ▶

83% relevance

Subscribers 22.4M

Videos 2.3K

Views 4.5B

Appearances 34

SERP 100%

Similarity 72%

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High search overlap on public reaction and moral dilemmas; shares audience interest in ethical scenarios, with content focusing on animated explanations rather than real-life scenario experiments like What Would You Do?

#2

TEDx Talks view on YouTube ▶

63% relevance

Subscribers 44.2M

Videos 255K

Views 8.8B

Appearances 23

SERP 58%

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Strong alignment on bystander decision making and people behavior under pressure, attracting viewers curious about ethics in public settings, though TEDx Talks emphasizes speaker presentations rather than staged social experiments.

#3

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55% relevance

Subscribers 27.2M

Videos 5.5K

Views 3.1B

Appearances 16

SERP 38%

Similarity 67%

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Broad overlap on moral and ethical dilemmas in public and social experiments ethics, drawing the same audience interested in thoughtful, issue-driven talks, but content is more lecture-style than reality-based scenarios.

#4

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50% relevance

Subscribers 6.2M

Videos 581

Views 1.3B

Appearances 2

SERP 9%

Similarity 78%

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Shares audience interest in privacy and public social experiments, but focuses on provocative stunts filmed in public rather than organized bystander ethics drills typical of What Would You Do?

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#5

Practical Psychology view on YouTube ▶

48% relevance

Subscribers 2.3M

Videos 311

Views 120.7M

Appearances 6

SERP 15%

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Sambucha view on YouTube ▶

47% relevance

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Appearances 8

SERP 12%

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Content Landscape

Top competitors by match strength are TED-Ed (83% match) and TEDx Talks (63% match). Both share overlapping queries with What Would You Do? such as public reaction dilemmas, moral dilemmas in public, ethical behavior scenarios, and bystander decision making. TED and TEDx Talks are larger, with 22.4M and 44.2M subscribers respectively, compared to What Would You Do?’s 6.3M. A third competitor, TED (55% match), also intersects on similar topics like moral dilemmas in public and social experiments ethics. Coby Persin (50% match) and Practical Psychology (48% match) align on privacy in public social experiments and bystander response scenarios, respectively.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to What Would You Do??

TED-Ed (83% match, 22.4M subscribers) and TEDx Talks (63% match, 44.2M subscribers) and TED (55% match, 27.2M subscribers) are What Would You Do?'s biggest competitors. They share a focus on educational or thought-provoking content and large subscriber bases from educational channels.

What type of content does What Would You Do? make?

What Would You Do? creates reality-style scenarios based on social ethics and moral dilemmas, as seen in video titles like 'Employee tries to swindle boss for more compensation by faking injury' and 'Desperate adult steals toy from boy’s hands at store.' The channel averages about 245.8K views per video and posts content that appears to be updated for holiday editions; the recent video list shows several holiday-themed uploads with hundreds of thousands of views each.

How do we determine which channels are similar to What Would You Do??

We analyze What Would You Do?'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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