Species | Documenting AGI YouTube Stats

@aispecies · Tech & AI · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Species | Documenting AGI channel overview

Species | Documenting AGI (@aispecies) is a YouTube channel in the Tech & AI niche created in 2023. It has 470K subscribers and 65M total views across 44 videos, an average of 1.5M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.7M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.1M views. Over the last 12 months, Species | Documenting AGI published 25 videos (48% Shorts), and 3 of them (12%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Species | Documenting AGI gained 4K subscribers and 1.7M views, about 102K views a day.

How much does Species | Documenting AGI make?

Returbe estimates Species | Documenting AGI's YouTube ad revenue at $7K – $28K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.96 to $15.83, typically $7.92, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $7.9K.

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Upload schedule

Species | Documenting AGI publishes about 1.1 videos a month. Based on its last 44 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (23% of uploads), usually around 19:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 22, 2026.

Species | Documenting AGI's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Species | Documenting AGI's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• MIT Explains the 12 Possible Endings for AI16M views · Mar 29, 202613.9× typical views
• Enslaved AI God Is The Only Good Future266K views · Oct 2, 202612.2× typical views
• Scientists Left 1000 AIs Alone in Minecraft. They Created A Civilization.5.1M views · Feb 1, 20264.4× typical views
• How could an AI, actually, take over the world? #agi #chatgpt70K views · Oct 30, 20253.2× typical views
• What You'd Actually See During an AI Takeover3M views · Jul 15, 20262.6× typical views
• Why not just unplug a rogue AI?49K views · Oct 24, 20252.2× typical views
• Why You Can't Escape AI42K views · Oct 6, 20261.9× typical views
• POV: You’re an AI Born 9 Seconds Ago2M views · Aug 15, 20261.8× typical views

Latest videos

10 of Species | Documenting AGI's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• How Sam Altman Could Become Dictator of Earth: A Scenario359K views · Oct 22, 20260.3× typical views
• Researchers Put AI Inside Video Games33K views · Oct 9, 20261.5× typical views
• AI Will Enslave Us As Pets If We're Lucky26K views · Oct 8, 20261.2× typical views
• Why You Can't Escape AI42K views · Oct 6, 20261.9× typical views
• I don't think people realize what just happened.528K views · Oct 4, 20260.5× typical views
• Enslaved AI God Is The Only Good Future266K views · Oct 2, 202612.2× typical views
• Why Would AI Respect Our Rights?22K views · Oct 1, 20261× typical views
• MIT Simulated AI Civilization In Minecraft21K views · Sep 29, 20261× typical views
• AI Scarier Than Nukes16K views · Sep 28, 20260.7× typical views
• AI Extinction 100x More Likely Than Nuclear War20K views · Sep 25, 20260.9× typical views

The Tech & AI niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 8.9K videos from 733 channels in this niche. 11.2% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 7.2K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $4 to $16.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Memes Land (88K subs, best video 176.1×), Fun_Games (69K subs, best video 303.1×), Sprunki Land (36K subs, best video 81.1×), Fun Universe (56K subs, best video 96.9×), MR Mocha White (16K subs, best video 131.1×), Fun Games (74K subs, best video 257×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with Species | Documenting AGI or YouTube.