Most GTA VI videos are invisible. That is the first thing the data says, and it is worth sitting with before anything else: the typical GTA VI Short published in the last two weeks has about 1,254 views, and the typical long-form video about 2,304.
These are medians, measured on 3 October 2026 across the 6,898 videos ViceRadar tracked that were published between two and fourteen days earlier. Videos newer than two days are excluded because their view count has not settled yet. Medians, not averages: a single video with two million views drags an average into fiction.
Long-form wins the typical video, Shorts win the lottery
- Shorts: 5,864 videos, median 1,254 views, top 10% start at 18,185.
- Long-form: 987 videos, median 2,304 views, top 10% start at 84,041.
Six Shorts are published for every long video, and the typical Short gets about half the views. The upside is also wildly different: the top decile of long videos starts at four and a half times the Shorts threshold.
That is not an argument against Shorts. It is an argument about what you are buying with your time. A Short is a cheap ticket in a crowded raffle. A long video is a slower bet on a subject, and the subject is the part most creators choose last.
Subject matters more than format
Here are the medians by the subject a title names. The keyword is a rough proxy — a title containing "map" is usually a map video — and the gap between the top and the bottom is far too large to be noise.
- "vs" (comparisons): 1,651 views across 366 videos
- "physics": 1,414 across 59
- "online": 1,360 across 451
- "Lucia": 1,290 across 102
- "graphics": 1,236 across 68
- "Jason": 1,226 across 92
- "gameplay": 1,223 across 528
- "NPC": 1,192 across 81
- "leak": 1,152 across 373
- "trailer": 978 across 190
- "easter egg": 911 across 111
- "release date": 734 across 35
- "police": 678 across 62
- "map": 640 across 889
- "glitch": 467 across 162
- "cars": 357 across 275
- "money": 77 across 369
A comparison video does, on the median, twenty-one times what a money video does.
The two traps in that list
The map trap. 889 videos, median 640 views. Map content is the single most covered subject in GTA VI and one of the worst performing. It feels like a safe choice precisely because everyone makes it, which is also why nobody needs another one.
The money trap. 369 videos and a median of 77 views. Money guides are a staple of GTA Online, so creators ported the format across. There is no economy to guide anyone through yet, and the audience knows.
Meanwhile "physics" has 59 videos and a higher median than almost anything else. Low supply, real demand — that is the shape of an opening, and it closes quickly.
What this does not tell you
It does not tell you a word causes views. Nobody gets 1,651 views for typing "vs"; comparison videos do well because the audience is comparing a game they cannot play yet with games they can. When GTA VI ships, that reason disappears, and so will the number.
It also says nothing about your channel. A 1,254-view Short is a flop on a 200k channel and a hit on a 500-subscriber one, which is why ViceRadar measures every video against its own channel's normal rather than against the corpus.
And it is a snapshot. These figures were true on 3 October 2026. The live version of this question — which subjects are accelerating right now, and how crowded they already are — is what the radar tracks hourly, and the statistics page keeps the summary current.