Giovana Quintanilha
@gigi_quintanilha YouTube
A six-year-old channel with 3,200 subscribers posted one skit. It drew 35 million views, and 38 days later she had a million subscribers.
A Brazilian creator and two friends film short Portuguese skits outdoors on a phone. The first one on the channel today, “I had a terrible vision!”, reached 35.2M views. Five follow-ups held a 4.83M median; when she moved to superhero costumes, views fell to around half a million.
- Report
- v1
- Data as of
- 2026-11-08
- Sample
- 11 videos
At a glance
- What it is
- Short live-action skits in Portuguese: Gigi sees a prank coming and stops it.
- Who watches
- Portuguese speakers first; dubbed and translated for many more. Young, by our reading.
- How it earns
- Shorts ad revenue only. No email, links, store or sponsors.
- How it broke out
- The first public Short reached 35.2M views at 3,200 subscribers.
Subscribers Fact
1.08M
3,200 on September 17
Days to 100K Fact
19
Sep 16 → Oct 5
The first Short Derived
35.2M
10.7× the channel median
Est. ad revenue to date Estimate
$1.5K–7.5K
at $0.02–0.10 per 1,000 views
Summary
The play
Give yourself one power the audience understands in a sentence (she sees a prank before it happens), stop the same friend being hurt twice in under a minute, and write the like-and-subscribe ask into the joke.
Can you copy it? Our read
The premise is easy to borrow: a power, a friend, a small disaster, under a minute. The hard part is a cast of three who can act it out several times a week, and her channel shows how fast it fades once the premise is dropped.
- What it takes
- Two or three people who can act broadly on camera, and someone who writes tight 40-second scenes.
- Startup cost
- A phone, daylight, a few props. No studio or special effects beyond a sticker or a flame overlay.
- Time to a verdict
- One skit every two or three days; judge each premise on five skits and drop it if the median falls below a fifth of your best.
- Window
- Short-skit Shorts are crowded in Portuguese and Spanish. A clear premise travels; her superhero costumes did not.
Key findings
One premise, explained in the first line
“I had a terrible vision” tells the viewer the rule in two seconds: she sees a prank coming and stops it. It reached 35.2M views on a channel with 3,200 subscribers. See play 2.1 (subscribers)
Her follow-ups held, until she changed the premise
Five skits from October 1–17 kept a 4.83M median and added the two biggest subscriber jumps (+97K and +279K in a day). The next five, tricks and superhero costumes, fell to 511K. See play 2.2 (subscribers)
The ask is part of the joke
Several skits build “like and subscribe” into the scene, including the 16.8M Stop Copying Me! and the 9.09M He Never Knows How to Play. Every Short is also dubbed, 7 to 18 audio tracks. See play 2.3 (subscribers)
What this channel is
- Platform
- YouTube Shorts
- Format
- Live-action skits, Portuguese
- On camera
- Yes, with two or three friends
- Team
- At least three people on camera
- First public Short
- Sep 16, 2026
- Length
- 29–62 seconds
Every number is tagged
- Fact straight from public data
- Derived calculated from facts
- Estimate from published pay ranges
- Self-reported what the creator says
- Our read our judgement
01How it happened
How the subscriber count grew
- YouTube 1.08M
Daily YouTube subscriber counts, measured. Two jumps follow two Shorts: +97K the day after He Never Knows How to Play, +279K the day after Stop Copying Me!
- under 1×
- 1–3×
- 3–10×
- 10× and up
Each bar is one video in the order posted. Gaps are breaks in posting.
| Phase | Dates (2026) | Shorts | Format | Median views |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 16 | 1 | “I had a terrible vision”: she foresees two pranks on her friend Patrick and stops both | 35.2M |
| Sep 16 – Oct 1 | 0 | 15 days off | ||
| 2 | Oct 1 – Oct 17 | 5 | A second “visions” skit, then “Stop copying me!” and “He never knows how to play” rivalry skits | 4.83M |
| 3 | Oct 20 – Nov 7 | 5 | Tricks (light a candle with water), then superhero costumes: Supergirl, the Flash, Spider-Man | 511K |
Hottest and coldest
Top 5 by views
- Eu tive uma visão terrível! #shorts2026-09-1635.2M
- PARA DE ME IMITAR! #shorts2026-10-1716.8M
- Ele Nunca Sabe Brincar #shorts2026-10-099.09M
- Eu tive visões horríveis! #shorts2026-10-014.83M
- Escondi Squishy no Mercado #shorts2026-10-153.39M
Bottom 5 by views
- ACENDA A VELA COM ÁGUA #shorts2026-10-2082K
- Ele camuflou bonequinhos no parque #shorts2026-10-23334K
- O HOMEM-ARANHA FOI POSSUÍDO! #Shorts2026-11-07511K
- FALHA NO SUPER SENTIDO DA SUPER GIRL #shorts2026-10-30918K
- O FLASH TA ESCONDENDO ALGUMA COISA DE MIM! #Shorts2026-11-051.09M
The five hottest are the first Short and four follow-ups from October 1–17: two “visions” skits and three rivalry skits (Stop Copying Me! 16.8M, He Never Knows How to Play 9.09M). The five coldest are the last five, October 20 – November 7: a water-and-candle trick (82K), camouflaged toys in a park, and three superhero skits. Our read
Reading the numbers
Derived
99%
of subscribers at day 30 came in those 30 days
3,200 on September 17, 412K on October 16.
Derived
≥6.6×
the post-hit median over everything before
2.19M against at most 333K: the channel’s total views on September 17, older videos included.
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