Eras

Four years, four different channels wearing the same title format. Dates are upload dates; episode ids are lookup keys into the Episode overviews.

2023 — the experiment

84 videos, one every 3–4 days. The channel starts on Mar 21 with [443] I Got TRAPPED In A MOVING TRUCK…. Early uploads are loose, long, real-time improv: school, adoption, hide-and-seek, a creepy principal ([436]), being adopted by Barbie ([446]).

The formats that will carry the channel are all invented this year:

• Life-span films — [398] 100 YEARS Under BROOKHAVEN, [389] 100 YEARS Above BROOKHAVEN, [377] 100 YEARS Trapped In CASTLE, [348] BIRTH To DEATH of a Brookhaven KING.
• Full movies — compilations like [444], [445] 300 YEARS (the channel's longest video, 89 min) and [390] I Prank POKE for 24 HOURS.
• Holiday events — [370] I Was FORCED to be SANTA.
• Mr Brookhaven lore — [437] in September, then the Halloween pair [392]/[394].

2024 — the growth engine

170 videos, the busiest year, and the one that built the audience. Median views roughly double.

• Milestones: 100K on Jun 4 ([290], a face reveal — "my name is Danny AKA Todd") and 200K on Oct 26 ([209], reacting to the first video, "+200K COLA CHUGS").
• Family era: adoption becomes the spine. [285] I Adopted BABY TODD (Jul 10), then school, bedtime, secrets, and Baby Poke ([261], Aug 1). Baby Todd is the most-mentioned character of the year.
• Crime-comedy sagas: the fake-baby arc ([306] I Became A FAKE BABY To Rob BILLIONAIRES, [297], [272], [277]), zombie survival ([283], [275], [379]), and the Criminal War ([232] → [201], November).
• Civilization era begins: [192] COLA CIVILIZATION (Dec 9) is still the most-viewed video on the channel; [194] CRIME CIVILIZATION follows three weeks later.
• Border patrol ([336], [350]) and the slowest-to-fastest upgrade series ([266], [280]) pull seven-figure and near-seven-figure numbers.
• Prime lineage lore is seeded ([188], Dec 19).

2025 — scale and mythology

158 videos. The channel gets bigger sets, more serialized lore, and its first proper year-long milestone campaign.

• Winter/spring: cola is banned ([173]), the FBI saga runs in April ([130] → [138]), and Toddville is founded in May ([145], [118]) — explicitly to push toward 300K.
• Summer: 300K lands on Jul 28 ([083] The Day SQUID GAME Took Over Brookhaven RP). The border economy goes into overdrive: fake borders, boys-only borders, girls-only borders, a $1,000,000 border, a cola border.
• Autumn: the nuclear-border climax — [061] I Survive A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION, [058] I Joined A NUCLEAR HAZMAT TEAM, [000] I Opened A NUCLEAR BORDER (Dec 9). The 2026 revival's siege episodes grow out of this.
• Girls-vs-boys revival: [079], [076], [075], [065], [054] There's A GIRL INVASION.
• The 400K push starts in November ([050] I Opened A COLA BORDER, 278K views; [054], 157K).
• Meta layer: Brookhaven is SOLD ([199], Feb 5), Wolfpaq content ([420] is 2023, but the meta thread recurs), game updates.

2026 — the format-consolidation era

41 videos through October, on a near-weekly Saturday slot, with the longest median runtime (27 min) and the strongest median views of any year.

Almost every upload is one of three templates:

1. "I Survive 99 YEARS in X" life-span films — 10 of 41, e.g. [081] SWAT, [030] PURGE, [019] Born In JAIL, [007] JURASSIC PARK, [045] MILITARY, [452] BACKROOMS.
2. Civilization battles — [048] BOYS Vs GIRLS, [028] KIDS Vs ADULTS, [008] POLICE Vs CRIMINAL, [022] TINY, [014] $1, [011] YOUTUBE.
3. Border/siege and girls-only arcs — [001] BORDER INVASION, [004] MAX LEVEL BORDER, [020] BUNKER To SURVIVE The GIRLS ONLY INVASION, [038] BOYS ONLY REVOLUTION, [034] BOYS ONLY EMPIRE.

New faces: Tappy moves in ([042], Apr), the Uber-driver mini-series ([041], [032], [035]), and the year ends with a big lore drop — [452] reveals Todd's twin brother Ted and dad Chuck.

• 400K lands on Oct 17 in [452]; the "million subscriber cola" is explicitly saved for later.
• The final upload in this dataset is [451] on Oct 24, 2026.

What changed under the hood

• Length: median 15 → 18 → 17 → 27 minutes; the 4–8K-word episodes of 2026 are twice the 2023 norm.
• Writing: 2023 improv → 2024 serialized arcs → 2025 scripted-sounding set pieces → 2026 template-driven "event" videos.
• Captions as evidence of craft: real speaker-switch markers (>>) appear in 103 videos — none in 2023–24, 62 in 2025 and all 41 of 2026. That matches the shift from one narrator paraphrasing everyone to actual multi-voice scenes.
• Cadence: 84 → 170 → 158 → 41 per year; the drop in 2026 is intentional (weekly, longer), not decline.