Basically Primitive YouTube Stats

@basically-primitive · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Basically Primitive channel overview

Basically Primitive (@basically-primitive) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2023. It has 37K subscribers and 5.8M total views across 88 videos, an average of 66K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 80K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 18K views. Over the last 12 months, Basically Primitive published 31 videos, and 8 of them (26%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Basically Primitive make?

Returbe estimates Basically Primitive's YouTube ad revenue at $6.7K – $22K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 to $10, typically $5.5, 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 $5.5K.

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Upload schedule

Basically Primitive publishes about 20.6 videos a month. Based on its last 31 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (39% of uploads), usually around 01:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

Basically Primitive's best outlier videos

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

• Why Did Evolution Make Us Fear “Almost Humans”?719K views · Oct 24, 202639.9× typical views
• Why Did Evolution Keep ADHD?520K views · Nov 4, 202628.9× typical views
• Did Ancient Humans Get Cancer?175K views · Oct 8, 20269.7× typical views
• Why Did Evolution Give Only Some Men Beards? (Not All)172K views · Oct 25, 20269.5× typical views
• Why Didn't Native American Diseases Wipe Out Europe?170K views · Nov 1, 20269.4× typical views
• Why Did Evolution Make 90% of Us Right Handed (But Not All)?162K views · Oct 30, 20269× typical views
• Why Didn't Evolution Get Rid of Psychopaths?101K views · Nov 5, 20265.6× typical views
• Why Did Evolution Make Humans So Much Weaker Than Other Animals?55K views · Oct 17, 20263.1× typical views

Latest videos

10 of Basically Primitive's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Why Did Gunpowder Make Europe Unstoppable, Not China?5K views · Nov 7, 20260.3× typical views
• Why Did Evolution Keep Night Owls?7.9K views · Nov 6, 20260.4× typical views
• Why Didn't Evolution Get Rid of Psychopaths?101K views · Nov 5, 20265.6× typical views
• Why Did Evolution Keep ADHD?520K views · Nov 4, 202628.9× typical views
• Why Did Evolution Give Humans White Eyes?44K views · Nov 2, 20262.5× typical views
• Why Didn't Native American Diseases Wipe Out Europe?170K views · Nov 1, 20269.4× typical views
• Why Did Evolution Make 90% of Us Right Handed (But Not All)?162K views · Oct 30, 20269× typical views
• Why Does Ancient Roman Concrete Last Longer Than Ours6.4K views · Oct 28, 20260.4× typical views
• How Did Ancient Humans Know Who Their Father Was?11K views · Oct 26, 20260.6× typical views
• Why Did Evolution Give Only Some Men Beards? (Not All)172K views · Oct 25, 20269.5× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.9K videos from 614 channels in this niche. 13.5% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 13K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 281.1×), Military Exposed Shorts (141K subs, best video 54.5×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 28.3×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 61.8×), Military History Talks (45K subs, best video 25.8×), JTM History (7.6K subs, best video 39×).

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Frequently asked questions

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