Dark Silk YouTube Stats

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

Dark Silk channel overview

Dark Silk (@darksilkyt) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2026. It has 42K subscribers and 8.1M total views across 30 videos, an average of 271K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 270K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 125K views. Over the last 12 months, Dark Silk published 30 videos, and 8 of them (27%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 10 days, Dark Silk gained 3.2K subscribers and 1.1M views, about 113K views a day.

How much does Dark Silk make?

Returbe estimates Dark Silk's YouTube ad revenue at $12K – $35K 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.

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

Dark Silk publishes about 5.4 videos a month. Based on its last 30 uploads, its most common upload day is Sunday (83% of uploads), usually around 14:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 1, 2026.

Dark Silk's best outlier videos

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

• Paranormal TikToker Dies After "Cursing" Herself2M views · Sep 6, 202615.9× typical views
• Chinese Influencer Exposed As Real Life Parasite861K views · Aug 2, 20266.9× typical views
• “Perfect” TikTok Mom Hired Children as Hitmen570K views · Sep 27, 20264.6× typical views
• The Most Hated Woman on Chinese Internet556K views · Sep 20, 20264.5× typical views
• "Angel-Faced Pimp” That Sold Her Friend to 400 Men543K views · Aug 23, 20264.3× typical views
• China's Most Confusing Streamer495K views · Nov 1, 20264× typical views
• K-Pop Fan Harassed To Death by Her Own Fandom468K views · Aug 8, 20263.7× typical views
• Chinese Mukbangers Are Dying over Views430K views · Sep 13, 20263.4× typical views

Latest videos

12 of Dark Silk's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• China's Most Confusing Streamer495K views · Nov 1, 20264× typical views
• Why China Erased Kylian Mbappé Overnight82K views · Oct 28, 20260.7× typical views
• Prodigy Harassed to Death Over... Pink Hair?192K views · Oct 25, 20261.5× typical views
• Thailand Turned a Murderer Into a Fashion Icon127K views · Oct 18, 20261× typical views
• "Gen Z Gangster" Tortures Best Friend to Death287K views · Oct 11, 20262.3× typical views
• Chinese Socialite Sold Abroad by "Best Friend"291K views · Oct 4, 20262.3× typical views
• “Perfect” TikTok Mom Hired Children as Hitmen570K views · Sep 27, 20264.6× typical views
• The Most Hated Woman on Chinese Internet556K views · Sep 20, 20264.5× typical views
• Chinese Mukbangers Are Dying over Views430K views · Sep 13, 20263.4× typical views
• Paranormal TikToker Dies After "Cursing" Herself2M views · Sep 6, 202615.9× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.2K videos from 504 channels in this niche. 8.3% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 20K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Crime 360 (241K subs, best video 15×), Criminally Obsessed (247K subs, best video 36.9×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.3×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (399K subs, best video 8.8×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 39.3×), Crazy planet (31K subs, best video 58.2×).

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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 Silk or YouTube.