BRIGHT SIDE is a YouTube channel maintained by media publisher TheSoul Publishing, who also owns other channels such as 5-Minute Crafts, SMART BANANA and Slick Slime Sam. They upload videos about conspiracy theories, science, trivia and tips, as well as multiple Clickbait videos about the RMS Titanic with extremely misleading information.
About[]
They were formerly one of the fastest growing YouTubers in subscribers, gaining over 1 million subscribers and over 186 million views a month. As of May 2024, they are the 77th most subscribed YouTuber. (excluding Youtube auto-generated channels).
Sergei Upensky (born: 1993) is assumed to be the only person narrating the videos, and he narrates a lot of BRIGHT SIDE's videos, such as "How to Solve a 3x3 Rubik's Cube In No Time | The Easiest Tutorial". However, other people have been narrating the videos, like Alexey Komarov (born: 1986), Andreou Kitos (born 1978), Jason Mack (born: 1991), Alexa Samara (born: 1995), Sam Khovarshski (born: 1981) and so on.
Content[]
Trivia[]
BRIGHT SIDE mainly makes videos about space, science, historical mysteries, real-life curiosities, tests, and tips.
Riddle Videos[]
They have been releasing riddles videos since the January of 2018. Despite being their newest genre, they are some of BRIGHT SIDE's most popular work. The videos are mostly based around detective, mystery, and murder puzzles.
This has sparked quite a bit of controversy, as BRIGHT SIDE is generally regarded as a kid-friendly YouTuber, yet their riddles contain dark themes. Their most popular riddle video had thirty-nine million views, and the next has thirty-seven.
Channel milestones[]
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
Subscriber milestones[]
- 1 million subscribers: June 18, 2017
- 2 million subscribers: August 4, 2017
- 3 million subscribers: September 27, 2017
- 4 million subscribers: November 1, 2017
- 5 million subscribers: December 5, 2017
- 6 million subscribers: January 3, 2018
- 7 million subscribers: January 30, 2018
- 8 million subscribers: March 1, 2018
- 9 million subscribers: March 28, 2018
- 10 million subscribers: April 22, 2018
- 11 million subscribers: May 17, 2018
- 12 million subscribers: June 6, 2018
- 13 million subscribers: July 1, 2018
- 14 million subscribers: July 21, 2018
- 15 million subscribers: August 9, 2018
- 16 million subscribers: August 29, 2018
- 17 million subscribers: September 18, 2018
- 18 million subscribers: October 14, 2018
- 19 million subscribers: November 3, 2018
- 20 million subscribers: November 19, 2018
- 21 million subscribers: December 10, 2018
- 22 million subscribers: January 6, 2019
- 23 million subscribers: February 4, 2019
- 24 million subscribers: March 5, 2019
- 25 million subscribers: April 3, 2019
- 26 million subscribers: May 3, 2019
- 27 million subscribers: June 1, 2019
- 28 million subscribers: July 3, 2019
- 29 million subscribers: August 11, 2019
- 30 million subscribers: September 23, 2019
- 31 million subscribers: October 24, 2019
- 32 million subscribers: December 2, 2019
- 33 million subscribers: January 21, 2020
- 34 million subscribers: April 3, 2020
- 35 million subscribers: May 21, 2020
- 36 million subscribers: August 14, 2020
- 37 million subscribers: October 11, 2020
- 38 million subscribers: December 14, 2020
- 39 million subscribers: February 12, 2021
- 40 million subscribers: April 15, 2021
- 41 million subscribers: June 27, 2021
- 42 million subscribers: October 8, 2021
- 43 million subscribers: March 3, 2022
- 44 million subscribers: August 28, 2022
Video view milestones[]
- 1 billion views: December 5, 2017
- 2 billion views: April 30, 2018
- 3 billion views: August 25, 2018
- 4 billion views: January 9, 2019
- 5 billion views: June 14, 2019
- 6 billion views: November 3, 2019
- 7 billion views: September 12, 2020
- 8 billion views: February 25, 2021
- 9 billion views: September 6, 2021
- 10 billion views: July 16, 2022
- 11 billion views: February 11, 2024
Associated channels[]
- BRIGHT SIDE VR 360 VIDEOS
- Health is Wealth
- 7-Second Riddles
- 5-Minute Crafts
- SMART BANANA
- Baby Learn Channel
- Nursery rhymes for children & baby songs - kids learning colors, shapes, ABCs & more
- SLICK SLIME SAM - DIY, Comedy, Science for Kids
- Now I've Seen Everything
- You're Gorgeous
- ACTUALLY HAPPENED
- La La Life
- RATATA
- Crafty Panda
- Stickman
- Dark Side
- Avocado Couple
- Zodiac Maniac
- Doodland
- 123 GO!
- 1 Million Comments
- Bright Side Fit
- SONNENSEITE (German (Deutsch 🇩🇪) Version)
- GENIAL (Spanish (Español 🇲🇽) Version)
- SYMPA (French (Français 🇫🇷) Version)
- SISI TERANG (Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia 🇮🇩) Version)
- IL LATO POSITIVO (Italian (Italiano 🇮🇹) Version)
- JASNA STRONA (Polish (Polski 🇵🇱) Version)
- INCRÍVEL (Portuguese (Português 🇧🇷) Version)
- Soi Sáng (Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt 🇻🇳) Version)
- OLUMLU BAK (Turkish (Türkçe 🇹🇷) Version) (Inactive as of August 2022)
- ADME (Russian (Русский 🇷🇺) Version)
- الجانب المُشرق (Arabic (العربية 🇸🇦) Version)
- ชีวิตสดใส (Thai (ภาษาไทย 🇹🇭) Version)
- 밝은 면 (Korean (한국어 🇰🇷) Version)
- ブライトサイド (Japanese (日本語 🇯🇵) Version)
- 亮生活 (Chinese (中文 🇨🇳) Version) (Inactive as of August 2022)
- SUNEHRA PEHLU (Hindi (हिन्दी 🇮🇳) Version) (Inactive as of April 2022)