Beside the Dying Fire YouTube Stats

@besidethedyingfire · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Beside the Dying Fire channel overview

Beside the Dying Fire (@besidethedyingfire) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2014. It has 120K subscribers and 6.9M total views across 82 videos, an average of 84K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 53K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 10K views. Over the last 12 months, Beside the Dying Fire published 7 videos, and 1 of them (14%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 14 days, Beside the Dying Fire gained 0 subscribers and 64K views, about 4.6K views a day.

How much does Beside the Dying Fire make?

Returbe estimates Beside the Dying Fire's YouTube ad revenue at $367 – $1.1K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 to $9, typically $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 $5K.

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Upload schedule

Based on its last 49 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (27% of uploads), usually around 20:00 UTC. The last video went out on Sep 28, 2026.

Beside the Dying Fire's best outlier videos

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

• Why Internet Predators Think They'll Never Get Caught282K views · Sep 28, 202627.1× typical views
• The Twisted Psychology Of Sovereign Citizens29K views · May 18, 20262.8× typical views
• The Dark Psychology of Serial Killers17K views · Dec 7, 20251.7× typical views
• The Shooting of Sam DuBose12K views · Nov 3, 20251.1× typical views
• A Collection of Disturbing Disappearances10K views · Jan 7, 20261× typical views
• Strange and Disturbing Things Found Online [Vol 5]26K views · Oct 6, 20251× typical views
• The Endless Corruption of ‘Apostle’ David Taylor 59K views · Sep 11, 20251× typical views
• AI Dating & The Epidemic of Loneliness20K views · Aug 14, 20251× typical views

Latest videos

3 of Beside the Dying Fire's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Why Internet Predators Think They'll Never Get Caught282K views · Sep 28, 202627.1× typical views
• Terrifying Police Encounters8.4K views · Jul 20, 20260.8× typical views
• The Twisted Psychology Of Sovereign Citizens29K views · May 18, 20262.8× typical views
• Strange & Disturbing Things Found Online [Vol VI]8.3K views · Mar 15, 20260.8× typical views
• The Dark World of Internet Blackmail6.4K views · Feb 8, 20260.6× typical views
• A Collection of Disturbing Disappearances10K views · Jan 7, 20261× typical views
• The Dark Psychology of Serial Killers17K views · Dec 7, 20251.7× typical views
• The Shooting of Sam DuBose12K views · Nov 3, 20251.1× typical views
• Strange and Disturbing Things Found Online [Vol 5]26K views · Oct 6, 20251× typical views
• The Endless Corruption of ‘Apostle’ David Taylor 59K views · Sep 11, 20251× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.1K videos from 500 channels in this niche. 8.2% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 21K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Crime 360 (241K subs, best video 17.9×), Criminally Obsessed (247K subs, best video 36.9×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.2×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (399K subs, best video 8.4×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 39.3×), Shezi Vlogs (270K subs, best video 63.9×).

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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 Beside the Dying Fire or YouTube.