Darkness Prevails YouTube Stats

@darknessprevails · Stories & Narration · Updated Nov 5, 2026

Darkness Prevails channel overview

Darkness Prevails (@darknessprevails) is a YouTube channel in the Stories & Narration niche created in 2015. It has 884K subscribers and 226M total views across 1.5K videos, an average of 151K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 197K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 176K views. Over the last 12 months, Darkness Prevails published 54 videos, and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 19 days, Darkness Prevails gained 2K subscribers and 2.3M views, about 124K views a day.

How much does Darkness Prevails make?

Returbe estimates Darkness Prevails's YouTube ad revenue at $5.1K – $21K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.5 to $6, typically $3, 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 $3K.

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

Darkness Prevails publishes about 7.6 videos a month. Based on its last 55 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (25% of uploads), usually around 01:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Darkness Prevails's best outlier videos

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

• The Most Terrifying Skinwalker Story on the Internet1.5M views · Oct 10, 20259.7× typical views
• There are Demons in the Woods of Colorado369K views · Sep 5, 20262.1× typical views
• Skinwalker Reserve352K views · Oct 13, 20262× typical views
• Wendigo of the Blue Ridge Mountains340K views · Sep 22, 20261.9× typical views
• NEVER Go Hunting in Georgia322K views · Aug 31, 20261.8× typical views
• The Gods of Appalachia303K views · Sep 26, 20261.7× typical views
• Grandpa Had One Rule: NEVER GROW CORN298K views · Oct 5, 20261.7× typical views
• Watcher of the Woods295K views · Oct 8, 20261.7× typical views

Latest videos

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

• Something Stole a Forest Ranger's Skin (3 Horror Stories)54K views · Nov 5, 20260.3× typical views
• The Ozark Mountains are Full of Wendigos175K views · Nov 1, 20261× typical views
• Visceral - A Survival Horror Roguelite (Gameplay Trailer)12K views · Oct 29, 20260.1× typical views
• We Found a Cave Under a Farm We NEVER Should Have Entered146K views · Oct 26, 20260.8× typical views
• Stay Away from Ray's Rock155K views · Oct 23, 20260.9× typical views
• Stay OUT of North Dakota176K views · Oct 19, 20261× typical views
• Skinwalker Reserve352K views · Oct 13, 20262× typical views
• Watcher of the Woods295K views · Oct 8, 20261.7× typical views
• Grandpa Had One Rule: NEVER GROW CORN298K views · Oct 5, 20261.7× typical views
• American Sleep Experiment189K views · Oct 1, 20261.1× typical views

The Stories & Narration niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 1.7K videos from 211 channels in this niche. 10.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 5.4K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $1.5 to $6.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Roomie Reports (52K subs, best video 32.4×), MAOD SPRINT (128K subs, best video 89.1×), The Hidden Power (240K subs, best video 24.2×), Eastern Rebirth Tales (1.9K subs, best video 49.3×), A Man's Destiny (13K subs, best video 43.8×), Warm Sun Drama (32K subs, best video 11×).

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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 Darkness Prevails or YouTube.