Finance & businessMegaBuildsThe (Quiet) Collapse of the World's Biggest Apartment Building

The (Quiet) Collapse of the World's Biggest Apartment Building

Long-form11:54Education16.6× channel median

Published Oct 7, 2026, 2:30 PM · 1w ago

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120K subscribers · median 66.4K views
Views
1,105,963
+431 views/hour
Likes
7.3K
0.7% of views
Comments
509
0.05% of views

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Views / hour now
431
measured 23h ago
Peak views / hour
523
1d ago
Avg views / day
114K
since upload
First 24 hours
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not tracked from upload
vs channel median
16.6×
Rank in channel
#1
of 21 tracked
Engagement
0.7%
likes + comments / views
Est. ad revenue
$11,060–$26,543
lifetime, $10–24 RPM

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Description

Nearly 20,000 people once lived inside a single building in China. Today, more than half are gone — and it wasn't fire, flood, or anything that touched the concrete. This is how the largest apartment building on Earth quietly started to empty.
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