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The Little Richeys @TheLittleRicheys YouTube

49 videos, 11 million subscribers: a family of seven dubs every upload into 40 languages

A spin-off channel from a big family channel, with 1.5M views on the very first video. Two things pushed it to 3.5 billion views: high-concept challenges you understand in one line, and multilingual dubbing on almost every upload.

The IMPOSSIBLE Puzzle.., the 13th upload: 1.4B views

At a glance

What it is
Challenge shorts from a family of seven: cheap vs expensive, can they do it, can they sneak it in.
Who watches
Families and kids worldwide; almost every video is dubbed into dozens of languages.
How it earns
Only Shorts ad revenue is visible on the channel.
How it broke out
A parent channel gave it a head start, then high-concept challenges and multilingual dubbing scaled it worldwide.

Subscribers Fact

11M

Registered 2025-03-25, 49 videos

Median views, first 10 videos Fact

1.18M

The first video alone had 1.55M

Video 13 Fact

1.40B

40% of all channel views

Est. ad revenue to date Estimate

$71K–353K

at $0.02–0.10 per 1,000 views

Summary

The play

Ask one question per video that fits in a sentence ($1 vs $500, can they find it, can they sneak it in), play it out with the whole family on camera, then dub it into dozens of languages and publish worldwide.

What this channel is

Platform
YouTube Shorts
Format
Real-world family challenges
On camera
A family of seven, each with a persona
Team
The crew of the parent channel, The Richey Family
First upload
2025-03-26
Length
Median 59 seconds

Key findings

  1. The premise fits in one line

    The biggest hits are titled as the question itself: the impossible puzzle, sneaking into the parade, $1 vs $500 water. You know what you are waiting for without watching the first three seconds.

  2. Almost every video is dubbed into dozens of languages

    40 of 49 videos carry 10 or more dubbed audio tracks. Those 40 account for 99.7% of views, with a 17M median; the 9 undubbed ones have a 1.24M median.

  3. It was not built from zero

    This is a sub-channel of The Richey Family, and its first video got 1.55M views. What you can copy is the premise and the dubbing, not the starting point.

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 blew up

Video 13 hits 1.4B

500M1000MChicken 🐓 Banana 🍌#chickenbanana #trending #shorts (2M)Oops, Straw Surprise (1M)$1 vs $2000 RC Try to Knock Down the Pins! (11M)$1 vs $2,000 RC Tug Of War! #richey #tugofwar (1M)$1 vs $2,000 Ball Which Will Bounce the HIGHEST? (749K)The Best Milkshake Preparation 😂 (2M)DON’T POP THE BALLOON CHALLENGE! (666K)I Tested The World's Sharpest Knife (1M)Can You Guess The Fake Disco Ball? (72M)Don't Pop the Baloon Challenge! (1M)How Strong Is The Rubber Bands? 🤔 (1M)The Best Milkshake Preparation for Mommy 😂 (1M)The IMPOSSIBLE Puzzle.. (1404M)25 days offWhat Can You Cut With a World's Sharpest Katana? (1M)$1 vs $2000 RC to knock down The Pins! (52M)Which ball will bounce the highest $1 vs $5000? (1M)How Strong Is Money $10 vs $10,000? (2M)12 days off$1 Water vs $500 Water – Blind Taste Test! (186M)I'm Hiding $500 At An Amusement Park! @TheRicheyFamily (99M)Can I Sneak Onto a Roller Coaster in High Platform Shoes? @TheRicheyFamily (50M)$1 vs $1000 Water Gun Challenge! #Richey (2M)How Many Steps Are On An One of The Biggest Escalator? (121M)Sneaking Candy into the Cinema Inside a Basketball (343M)Will My iPhone Get Stolen If I Leave it at Theme Park For a Day? (2M)Sneaking into the Parade like a Princesses! (617M)Can We Sneak on The Top of The Tallest Building in Korea? (5M)Will My iPhone Get Stolen If I Leave it at Theme Park For a Whole Day? (17M)Can I Sneak on The Top of The Tallest Building in Korea? (8M)14 days offCan We Find NEMO? 🐠🔎 (64M)IMPOSSIBLE Puzzle Challenge! (140M)I'm Hiding Labubu at An Amusement Park! (1M)Impossible Puzzle on Halloween! (22M)It's Impossible to Solve This Puzzle! (96M)Can We Find Treasure With Pirates? 🏴‍☠️💰 (5M)How Much Money Does it Cost To Win PS5 in An Arcade? (18M)14 days offIf Glass Tower Falls You Lose! (876K)We Broke Our Favorite Christmas Ornament… 🎄😱 (22M)34 days offSneaking Onto the Dragon Roller Coaster 😱🐉 (26M)Trying The World's Weirdest Desserts! Which one is the Weirdest? (696K)Can We Find MrBeast in Real Life? (19M)Can The World’s Most Famous Wax Figures Come to Life? (1M)Can We Sneak To The Top of The Tallest Building In The World? (999K)Flying to Korea for a PSY Concert — Was It Worth It? 🇰🇷🎤 (126K)Can We Make It to the Top of the World’s Tallest Observation Wheel? 🎡🌍 (10M)13 days offCan I survive the world’s scariest glass slide in Dubai? 😱 (22M)The CRAZIEST Gangnam Style Dance Ever 😱 Wait for it… (1M)Can we find animals from cartoons in the zoo? 🐰🦊 (3M)Which Country Has the Cleanest Streets? 🧼🌍 (32M)103 days offMy Brother Ripped My Toy… So We Built a New Teddy Bear! (38M)Video 13 hits 1.4B

Each bar is one video in the order posted. Gaps are breaks in posting.

Phase Dates Videos Format Median views
1 2025-03-26 – 05-04 13 One small experiment a day: $1 vs $2000 RC car, real vs fake disco ball, the impossible puzzle 1.24M
05-04 – 05-29 0 25 days off after the 1.4B video
2–4 2025-05-29 – 08-01 8 Moved outdoors: $1 vs $500 water, hiding money at an amusement park 26.5M (phase 2)
5–6 2025-08-15 – 10-31 12 A batch every two weeks: sneaking into a parade and a cinema, counting escalator steps, finding Nemo 16.6M → 63.75M
7–14 2025-11 – 2026-08-07 16 Farther afield: Seoul, the world’s tallest building, streets in other countries Mostly 10–38M
2026-08-07 – today 0 No uploads for 3 months

Reading the numbers

Fact

40 of 49

videos have 10+ dubbed tracks

Those 40 bring 99.7% of views; the most has 46 audio tracks.

Derived

17M vs 1.24M

median views, dubbed vs undubbed

Correlation, not causation: the dubbed ones are mostly the ones they put more care into.

Fact

1.40B

best single video

The IMPOSSIBLE Puzzle.., 59 seconds, 29 audio tracks.

Fact

3 months

without uploads

The last video is from 2026-08-07, with 38.42M views.

In the creator’s words Self-reported

Our Goals: 1. Beat Mr. Beast in subscribers 2. Become the most popular family 3. Try every crazy expensive thing out there

02Where it lives

Mainwhere the audience and views are

  • YouTube Shorts

    11M

    3.53B views; 48 of the 49 videos are Shorts.

Triedan account exists, little activity

  • TikTok

    10K

    Same-name account with 48 videos; it barely took off.

  • Instagram

    2,360

    Same-name account.

Same format elsewherewho else runs this format

  • Parent channel The Richey Family

    —

    The description says it is part of it, and titles tag it too.

Not doneopen opportunities

  • Sponsors, merchandise, memberships

    0

    No way to earn was found on the channel page.

03The plays

$1 Water vs $500 Water, 186M views

Look at these

  1. 0:00The first sentence is the question: “Can you guess which cup is the $500 water?”See play 3.1
  2. middleCup by cup, one reaction line each, no explanationSee play 3.1
  3. endingAfter the reveal they go back for another sip, leaving something to argue aboutSee play 3.1
  4. audioDubbed into dozens of languagesSee play 3.2
3.1MainUp to 1.4B, median 6.43M

High-concept challenges that fit in one line

What they did
  • The title is the question itself: The IMPOSSIBLE Puzzle, Sneaking into the Parade like Princesses, $1 Water vs $500 Water. Fact
  • The transcript structure is fixed: pose the question, a few failures in the middle, a reveal at the end (in the escalator-steps video they count first, then stick on stickers, then draw marks). Fact
What happened
  • The top three videos have 1.40B, 617M and 343M views. Fact
How you can use it
  • When writing the premise, ask: from the title alone, without the picture, does the viewer know what result they are waiting for?
  • Plan two or three failures in the middle and save the result for the last 10 seconds.
Evidence
3.2Main99.7% of views come from dubbed videos

Dub almost every video into dozens of languages

What they did
  • Multilingual audio tracks start on the second video; the third already has 22, and later videos have 30–46 each. Fact
  • There is little speech, so dubbing is cheap and the picture explains itself. Our read
What happened
  • The 40 dubbed videos have a 17M median; the 9 undubbed ones have 1.24M. Derived
How you can use it
  • Keep speech under 150 words and turn on YouTube auto-dubbing, or outsource dubbing into 20 or more languages.
  • Write titles in the simplest English so automatic translation works well.
Evidence
3.3SupportingPhases 5–6 median 16.6M → 63.75M

From tabletop experiments to big real-world set pieces

What they did
  • Most of the first 13 videos were shot at home on a tabletop; from June they moved outdoors: amusement park, parade, cinema, the world’s tallest building. Fact
  • Uploads slowed from one a day to a batch roughly every two weeks. Fact
What happened
  • After moving outdoors, median views went from the millions to the tens of millions. Fact
How you can use it
  • Validate the personas and the dubbing on cheap tabletop ideas first, then put the budget into locations.
Evidence
3.4Lesson3 months without uploads

11 million subscribers, no visible second income

What they did
  • No links, business email, merchandise or long-form; no new videos since August 7. Fact
What happened
  • The 2027 Shorts threshold has to be carried by the long tail of old videos, so there is a risk of dropping out of revenue sharing. Our read
How you can use it
  • Put a business contact in place while views are coming in; do not rely on Shorts revenue alone.
Evidence

04The money

An estimate, at roughly $0.02–0.10 per thousand Shorts views outside music (AIR Media-Tech). Viewers are spread across dozens of languages, so the average RPM likely sits at the low end.

Views Est. ad revenue
Channel to date 3.53B $71K–353K
The IMPOSSIBLE Puzzle.. alone 1.40B $28K–140K
One typical video (median) 6.43M $129–643

The February 2027 rule needs 10M qualified Shorts views in 90 days. The channel has not posted since August 7, so whether it qualifies depends entirely on the long tail of old videos.

For brands None yet

How it earns today
The channel page has no links, business email or merchandise. Revenue is probably negotiated together on the parent channel, The Richey Family.
Who would fit
Toy, snack, travel and family brands. The premise is already “spend money on stuff and test it”, so dropping in a $1 vs $500 comparison needs almost no script change, and the dubbing opens dozens of markets at once.

05What you can take

  1. Idea generator

    [cheap version vs expensive version] or [can they do it] × [something everyone knows]. Examples: $1 vs $500 water, can they count the escalator steps, can they hide candy in a basketball and get it into the cinema.

  2. Shoot

    Pose the question in the first sentence, two or three failures in the middle, a final success or reveal, all inside 60 seconds. The whole family takes turns on camera, each with a fixed persona.

  3. Look

    Real locations, handheld, big captions. The title is the question itself, with one emoji.

  4. Dubbing

    Use YouTube auto-dubbing or outsource it, at least 20 languages. The 40 dubbed videos here have a 17M median; the 9 undubbed ones have 1.24M.

  5. Pace and stop-loss

    If the first 10 videos sit around 1M views, the premise is right. After that, prefer a batch every two weeks, with an out-of-the-house set piece in every video.

  6. Mistakes to skip

    This channel stopped for 3 months and has no way to earn beyond Shorts. The parent channel’s audience and team were its starting point; a solo copy has to accept a much slower cold start.

Appendix

What you cannot easily copy

  • The parent channel. The description says “a part of The Richey Family”. The first video had 1.5M views and the first 10 had a 1.18M median, so there was no cold start. A new account cannot get that head start.
  • People and money. A family of seven, filming abroad, with expensive props (a $2000 RC car, $500 water) costs far more than solo Shorts.
  • Dubbing is a correlation, not a cause. The dubbed videos are mostly the ones they put more care into, so the data cannot separate the two.

Sources

Per-video data for all 49 videos (including audio-track languages) from the public YouTube channel, collected November 6, 2026. Transcripts from YouTube auto-captions.