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Best YouTube Outlier List

A KI-drama longform video hit 9.8 million views in two weeks; this article summarizes 5 recent standout YouTube longform and Shorts examples, including KI drama, DIY, KI Shorts, and children’s drawing.

Author · ShortsMonkeyPublished · August 6, 20262 min read

【Platform】:youtbe
【Category】Longform video
【Material form】:KI drama longform video
【Sales/Views】:9.8 million in two weeks
【Why recommended】;A longform video in KI-drama style. The rough plot: the protagonist is put in a hopeless situation for resisting a tyrant and protecting his wife, chained up and abandoned. In a crisis, he encounters a mysterious river monster. The monster not only does not hurt him, but saves him and leads him into the palace’s underground passage to rescue his wife
Hit drama
A lonely husband + a dark mystical being + a fantasy woman disguised as a human from a foreign tribe.
Meanwhile, YouTube has many creative KI longform scripts; this is only one of them. However, production attempts are still relatively costly, but the data is still good: six longform videos with 14 million views
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【Platform】:youtbe
【Category】Longform video
【Material form】:Handmade
【Sales/Views】:two million in eight days
【Why recommended】;A handcrafted longform video showing the entire DIY process of making a practical household cleaning tool from old plastic bottles and a large white plastic barrel — several green plastic bottles are cut into fine strips and assembled into a durable broom, and an old plastic container is cut and converted into a matching dustpan. It has a bit of an “out of waste comes treasure” feel, healing and relaxing at the same time
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【Platform】:youtbe
【Category】Shorts
【Material form】:KI
【Sales/Views】:30 million views in 21 days
【Why recommended】;Short videos have surged again; most of the plot is based on earlier hit-drama types. This account is a new account that only started posting short videos last month. Each video is about one minute long, and the production cost is still lower than that of longform videos,
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【Platform】:youtbe
【Category】Shorts
【Material form】:KI
【Sales/Views】:24 million views with 14 videos
【Why recommended】;This script probably won’t be unfamiliar: the earlier plot where fruits fall and then grow back. Only the previous female lead was replaced by people from India; the script is the same, only the characters are different, and it can be done in an innovative way
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【Platform】:youtbe
【Category】Longform video
【Material form】:Live action
【Sales/Views】:a million-hit last month, with most of the traffic at 400,000
【Why recommended】;A creative drawing and watercolor education video for children and early education audiences. Using fruits and delicious foods as the main themes, the creators demonstrate interactively with hand-drawn outlines, step-by-step watercolor filling, and bright color combinations, guiding children to learn about everyday fruits and foods, brand doodle IPs + cute fruit designs.
Plot highlight: The video breaks away from the traditional, boring pattern and uses a step-by-step buildup in which “bright colors are unlocked one after another.” For younger viewers, this process of turning nothing into something
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