Blackfiles YouTube Stats

@blackfiles-hd · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Blackfiles channel overview

Blackfiles (@blackfiles-hd) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2025. It has 461K subscribers and 61M total views across 170 videos, an average of 361K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 111K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 65K views. Over the last 12 months, Blackfiles published 55 videos, and 7 of them (13%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Blackfiles gained 5K subscribers and 2.2M views, about 130K views a day.

How much does Blackfiles make?

Returbe estimates Blackfiles's YouTube ad revenue at $14K – $47K 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

Blackfiles publishes about 11.9 videos a month. Based on its last 60 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (27% of uploads), usually around 13:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 3, 2026.

Blackfiles's best outlier videos

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

• Why Kim Jong-un Is Impossible to Kill645K views · Oct 22, 20269.9× typical views
• The ONLY Hacker the FBI Gave Up Trying to Catch508K views · May 10, 20267.8× typical views
• Why Anonymous is Impossible to Close393K views · Oct 16, 20266× typical views
• The Hacker Who Took Down North Korea1.9M views · May 14, 20255.3× typical views
• The Hacker Who Saw UFOs302K views · Oct 31, 20264.6× typical views
• The Teen Who Hacked the Pentagon1.5M views · Sep 23, 20254.2× typical views
• Why the Dark Web Is Impossible to Shut Down230K views · Oct 29, 20263.5× typical views
• The Man Who Created Infinite Money LEGALLY219K views · Jul 15, 20263.3× typical views

Latest videos

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

• The Strangest Phone Call of the JFK Assassination98K views · Nov 3, 20261.5× typical views
• The Hacker Who Saw UFOs302K views · Oct 31, 20264.6× typical views
• Why the Dark Web Is Impossible to Shut Down230K views · Oct 29, 20263.5× typical views
• The Man Who Scammed an ENTIRE Country67K views · Oct 27, 20261× typical views
• The Gamers Who Hacked the US Army58K views · Oct 25, 20260.9× typical views
• Why Kim Jong-un Is Impossible to Kill645K views · Oct 22, 20269.9× typical views
• The Man Who Stole $350 Million and Never Served a Day64K views · Oct 20, 20261× typical views
• The Hacker Who Trolled the FBI32K views · Oct 18, 20260.5× typical views
• Why Anonymous is Impossible to Close393K views · Oct 16, 20266× typical views
• The Man Who Outsmarted the CIA67K views · Oct 14, 20261× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.5K videos from 378 channels in this niche. 13.5% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 12K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 202.4×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 26.7×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 42.9×), James Sullivan (6.8K subs, best video 12×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 61.9×), ViralVerseUSA (9.4K subs, best video 38.8×).

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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 Blackfiles or YouTube.