Dark5 YouTube Stats

@dark5tv · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 5, 2026

Dark5 channel overview

Dark5 (@dark5tv) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2013. It has 2.7M subscribers and 777M total views across 791 videos, an average of 982K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 284K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 230K views. Over the last 12 months, Dark5 published 15 videos, and 1 of them (7%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 13 days, Dark5 gained 10K subscribers and 318K views, about 24K views a day.

How much does Dark5 make?

Returbe estimates Dark5's YouTube ad revenue at $2K – $6.8K 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.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

Dark5 publishes about 1.1 videos a month. Based on its last 50 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (24% of uploads), usually around 18:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 15, 2026.

Dark5's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Dark5's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• 5 End of the World Tapes You Were Never Supposed to See699K views · Nov 28, 20253× typical views
• 5 Photos Were Never Supposed to Be Found525K views · Nov 6, 20252.3× typical views
• Cases of " People" Who Appeared Human... But Maybe Weren't355K views · Dec 21, 20251.5× typical views
• 5 UFO Artifacts We Can’t Explain327K views · Oct 15, 20261.4× typical views
• 5 Times We Found Unexplained Creatures… Then Lost the Proof316K views · Feb 25, 20261.4× typical views
• Cases of People That Met Something Not Quite Human... Then Vanished296K views · Nov 20, 20251.3× typical views
• 5 Horrifying Clues Left by Stranded People Beyond Rescue238K views · Jul 12, 20261× typical views
• Greenland’s Biggest Mysteries: 5 Secrets Hidden Under the Arctic Ice230K views · Feb 7, 20261× typical views

Latest videos

3 of Dark5's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• 5 UFO Artifacts We Can’t Explain327K views · Oct 15, 20261.4× typical views
• Her Plane Vanished. Then They Found The Photos139K views · Aug 14, 20260.6× typical views
• 5 Horrifying Clues Left by Stranded People Beyond Rescue238K views · Jul 12, 20261× typical views
• They Discovered the Impossible. Then They Vanished.204K views · Jun 14, 20260.9× typical views
• The Miami Mall Incident: 5 Mall Mysteries That Shouldn't Be Possible227K views · Apr 16, 20261× typical views
• The Redditors Who Never Came Back94K views · Mar 8, 20260.4× typical views
• 5 Times We Found Unexplained Creatures… Then Lost the Proof316K views · Feb 25, 20261.4× typical views
• Greenland’s Biggest Mysteries: 5 Secrets Hidden Under the Arctic Ice230K views · Feb 7, 20261× typical views
• The Mysterious Cosmonaut Photos That The Soviets Tried to Bury157K views · Jan 10, 20260.7× typical views
• Cases of " People" Who Appeared Human... But Maybe Weren't355K views · Dec 21, 20251.5× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.5K videos from 372 channels in this niche. 13.5% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 11K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 206.5×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 26.7×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 43.7×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 63.4×), James Sullivan (6.7K subs, best video 12×), ViralVerseUSA (9.4K subs, best video 39×).

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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 Dark5 or YouTube.