One of three channels run by Taiwo Alabi. This is the live one. Two episodes shipped in 24 hours: EP_MUSASHI (2026-10-27, 876 first-day views, 65.3% retention) and EP_BOOK_OF_FIVE_RINGS (built, ready to ship).
Dark history. The events, regimes and people history skipped over - the kind with a story that took decades to come out. Episodes weekly, shorts three times a week, long-form once a month. Every claim is traceable to a Wikipedia article, Britannica entry, or the primary document the article cites.
Display name: Forgotten Fronts
YouTube / Instagram / TikTok / Facebook handle: @forgottenfronts0
Tagline: "What they buried. Why it broke. The history they didn't teach you."
EP_MUSASHI: 876 views, 65.3% retention, 21 likes, 21 comments. EP_BOOK_OF_FIVE_RINGS: 6 views (built, awaiting upload). Studio aggregate: 984 views, 0 new subscribers. Two readings, can't separate signal from lag yet - subscriber attribution on a brand-new channel is always slow.
Vertical narration-driven Short, ~40 seconds, 1080x1920, 19 shots. Hard cuts on beat boundaries (no blur whip). 2-4 word captions, white with exactly one yellow word. Single narrator, episode length locked to the narration.
Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojiro at Ganryu Island with a wooden bokken instead of steel, by arriving late to unbalance Kojiro's composure. 40.1 seconds, 19 shots, 136 words. First-day: 876 views, 65.3% retention, 21 likes, 21 comments. QA gate: 15 confirmed, 2 dropped.
View the breakdownThe closing promise of EP_MUSASHI. The Book of Five Rings written by Musashi after his duelling days. EP_BOOK_OF_FIVE_RINGS.mp4 (14.2 MB), built and gated, closing-caption pointing at the next subject (the duel series continues).
The named next subject after Book of Five Rings: 216 BC, Hannibal crosses the Alps with elephants and defeats Rome at the Battle of Cannae. The named-next from the source-channel insights: war/military subject ratio is 3.35x per channel on n=266.
EP_MUSASHI took 40.1 seconds to ship a real fact-checked history episode with 65% retention. That's the whole proof: dark history as a subject carries, the format holds attention, and the gate catches defects without blocking the build. Next 10-20 episodes test whether subscribers convert.
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