Dark History Class YouTube Stats

@darkhistoryclass · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Dark History Class channel overview

Dark History Class (@darkhistoryclass) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2025. It has 33K subscribers and 1.4M total views across 10 videos, an average of 139K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 139K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 8.5K views. Over the last 12 months, Dark History Class published 9 videos, and 2 of them (22%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Dark History Class make?

Returbe estimates Dark History Class's YouTube ad revenue at $423 – $1.4K 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

Dark History Class publishes about 2.2 videos a month. Based on its last 10 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (40% of uploads), usually around 01:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 24, 2026.

Dark History Class's best outlier videos

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

• Napoleon's Frozen Hell: 685,000 Enter Russia, 40,000 Return | 1812 Disaster818K views · Dec 12, 202595.9× typical views
• THE SIEGE OF BAGHDAD: This is How the Mongols Ended the Islamic Golden Age in 1258126K views · Oct 17, 202614.8× typical views
• Genghis Khan's Rarest Defeat: 15,000 Refugees Who Humiliated the Mongol Empire(Parwan 1221)12K views · Aug 9, 20261.4× typical views
• Battle of Vaslui (1475): When 120,000 Ottomans Were Crushed by 40,000 Moldavians9.9K views · Jul 10, 20261.2× typical views
• The Siege of Eger: 1552 – How 2,000 Hungarians and Civilians Defeated the Ottoman Empire404K views · Nov 7, 20251× typical views
• Battle of the Pyramids 1798: How Napoleon Broke and Took Over Military Power in Egypt8.5K views · Oct 10, 20261× typical views
• Stephen the Great's Genius Trap — When the Barlad River Became a Death Trap for the Ottomans5.9K views · Oct 24, 20260.7× typical views
• Genghis Khan's Greatest Victory: 90,000 Mongols Invaded 500,000 Jin Dynasty Troops5.7K views · Jul 10, 20260.7× typical views

Latest videos

2 of Dark History Class's last 10 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Stephen the Great's Genius Trap — When the Barlad River Became a Death Trap for the Ottomans5.9K views · Oct 24, 20260.7× typical views
• THE SIEGE OF BAGHDAD: This is How the Mongols Ended the Islamic Golden Age in 1258126K views · Oct 17, 202614.8× typical views
• Battle of the Pyramids 1798: How Napoleon Broke and Took Over Military Power in Egypt8.5K views · Oct 10, 20261× typical views
• Welcome to Dark History Class!1.7K views · Oct 8, 20260.2× typical views
• The Ottoman Rise to Power: From Kosovo to the Fall of Constantinople (1389–1453)1.4K views · Aug 9, 20260.2× typical views
• Genghis Khan's Rarest Defeat: 15,000 Refugees Who Humiliated the Mongol Empire(Parwan 1221)12K views · Aug 9, 20261.4× typical views
• Battle of Vaslui (1475): When 120,000 Ottomans Were Crushed by 40,000 Moldavians9.9K views · Jul 10, 20261.2× typical views
• Genghis Khan's Greatest Victory: 90,000 Mongols Invaded 500,000 Jin Dynasty Troops5.7K views · Jul 10, 20260.7× typical views
• Napoleon's Frozen Hell: 685,000 Enter Russia, 40,000 Return | 1812 Disaster818K views · Dec 12, 202595.9× typical views
• The Siege of Eger: 1552 – How 2,000 Hungarians and Civilians Defeated the Ottoman Empire404K views · Nov 7, 20251× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.7K videos from 584 channels in this niche. 13.9% 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.

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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 Dark History Class or YouTube.