@GMODFUNNYSHORTS Competitors: 5 Similar YouTube Channels Compared

Worth saying up front: this competitor set isn't five GMOD shorts channels lined up next to each other. It's the algorithmic neighborhood YouTube has clustered around @GMODFUNNYSHORTS, and the more useful read is what that clustering tells you. The shared DNA across all six channels is short-form vertical video, sub counts in the 12K–31K band, and a viewer who's scrolling — not searching. Genre is almost a coincidence. So when we talk "competitors" here, we're really talking about who else is fighting for the same five seconds of attention on the Shorts feed.

@Sideye-24 (19,500 subs) is the closest scale match — basically the same sub count as GMODFUNNYSHORTS — but with only 31 videos to GMODFUNNYSHORTS's 741. That's a wild ratio. They've pulled 19.5K with what looks like roughly 4% of the upload volume. From the outside that suggests one or two videos went hard and dragged a thin catalog up the chart. Channel bio is just thank-yous and a "Next Target 20,000" line, which reads like someone who got surprised by a hit and is still figuring out what to do next. Follow them if you want to watch a low-output, high-variance trajectory unfold in real time. They're not a direct GMOD competitor — they're a cautionary data point about how lumpy Shorts growth actually is.

@Autolykus (21,800 subs, 783 videos, US) is structurally the twin of GMODFUNNYSHORTS — almost identical sub count, almost identical video count — except the content is League of Legends climbing footage (NA Challenger, Rank 1 Season 9, Sett/Mordekaiser main). Same shorts-heavy game-clip format, different game, different audience age skew, and a meaningfully different intent: people watch Autolykus to learn matchups, people watch GMODFUNNYSHORTS to laugh. If you're benchmarking your own upload cadence and retention against "a 20K US gaming-shorts channel," Autolykus is the cleanest peer in this list. Worth following just to track how a parallel-scale channel handles its catalog.

@SchoolDayzGamerz-yn5pt (12,300 subs, 987 videos, India) is the volume play. Almost 1,000 uploads to reach 12.3K is roughly 12 subs per video, versus GMODFUNNYSHORTS's roughly 28 subs per video. Different market (India), different game library (old/retro titles, per the bio), different monetization economics — Indian RPM is a fraction of US RPM, so the strategy of brute-forcing upload count makes sense there in a way it wouldn't for a US creator. Useful to follow if you want to see what high-frequency, low-CPM gaming shorts looks like at scale. Not really competing with GMODFUNNYSHORTS for attention so much as competing for the same algorithmic slot.

@MachoRushDrama (30,600 subs, 67 videos, Taiwan) is the outlier and honestly the most interesting one in the set. Mandarin short-drama clips, 67 videos, 30.6K subs — so roughly 457 subs per upload, which is an order of magnitude better than anyone else here. Different niche entirely (短剧 / Chinese mini-drama), different language audience, but YouTube is grouping them next to a Garry's Mod channel. That tells you the algorithm is reading both as "vertical, fast-paced, high-replay-rate clips." If you watch GMODFUNNYSHORTS to study format, MachoRushDrama is the channel in this cluster that's executing the format hardest.

@NemFN (12,500 subs, 1,500 videos, US) is the genuine gaming-shorts peer in terms of style — the handle reads Fortnite-ish, the channel has the highest video count of the bunch, and the bio ("Subscribe=🍪") signals the kid/teen Fortnite audience that overlaps meaningfully with GMOD humor viewers. About 8 subs per upload, which is rough — they're grinding harder than anyone else here for less per-video return. Watch them if you want to see what GMODFUNNYSHORTS's volume strategy looks like when it doesn't quite land.

If you watch @GMODFUNNYSHORTS, the two channels that genuinely belong next on your feed are @Autolykus (the structural twin — same scale, same format, different game) and @NemFN (closest content-flavor match — US gaming shorts aimed at a similar audience). @MachoRushDrama is the one to study, not subscribe to. @Sideye-24 and @SchoolDayzGamerz-yn5pt are interesting trajectory data more than competitors.