Halloween Shorts offer a seasonal angle—not a guaranteed growth formula

Halloween gives visual creators a timely way to put their existing skills to work. Tubefilter’s worldwide subscriber chart for the week of October 11, 2026, using GospelStats data, highlights Mexican creators whose spooky videos sit alongside strong channel growth. The useful angle is how they adapt their creative strengths to the season.

Lily Belloncle added 300,000 subscribers during the first full week of October, reaching 22.5 million subscribers and placing 33rd in the chart. Tubefilter points to her detailed makeup work, including a toothy horror look in her most-watched Short, which has 240 million lifetime views. For a makeup or costume creator, that’s a concrete example of turning a familiar production skill into a seasonal visual centerpiece.

Those figures need to stay separate: the Short’s lifetime views are not its October performance, and the report doesn’t establish how many of Belloncle’s weekly subscribers came from that video. It illustrates a creative approach without proving that Halloween caused the growth.

Jenny Devil offers a more resource-intensive example, purchasing real-life versions of Five Nights at Freddy’s animatronics for her videos. That’s evidence of commitment to a concept, not evidence that expensive props pay for themselves. The chart supplies no production-cost or revenue figures.

If your format already involves makeup, costumes or character work, a Halloween variation could be a reasonable experiment before October 31. These examples don’t justify building an unfamiliar, costly production around the holiday alone. Although 38 of this week’s top 50 channels are primarily active on Shorts, the ranking captures exceptional subscriber gains—not typical results a seasonal upload should be expected to deliver.

Source: Tubefilter · 2026-10-13

By Hookami