The Dark Somnium YouTube Stats

@darksomnium · Stories & Narration · Updated Nov 6, 2026

The Dark Somnium channel overview

The Dark Somnium (@darksomnium) is a YouTube channel in the Stories & Narration niche created in 2016. It has 884K subscribers and 193M total views across 1.1K videos, an average of 184K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 150K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 172K views. Over the last 12 months, The Dark Somnium published 47 videos (15% Shorts), and 1 of them (2%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, The Dark Somnium gained 1K subscribers and 1.5M views, about 76K views a day.

How much does The Dark Somnium make?

Returbe estimates The Dark Somnium's YouTube ad revenue at $3.1K – $12K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.49 to $5.97, typically $2.98, 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

The Dark Somnium publishes about 8.7 videos a month. Based on its last 58 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (28% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 25, 2026.

The Dark Somnium's best outlier videos

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

• "The Hidden Webpage" Scary Stories Found on The Internet | Creepypasta1.5M views · Feb 10, 20218.3× typical views
• "The Showers" Scary Stories from The Internet | Classic Creepypasta1.1M views · Jun 22, 20236.1× typical views
• "TURN IT OFF!" Scary Stories Found on The Internet | Creepypasta896K views · Feb 13, 20224.9× typical views
• Penpal (Full Story) | Scary Stories from The Internet733K views · Aug 18, 20234× typical views
• "Things Darker Than Man" Scary Stories from The Internet | Creepypasta717K views · Jul 7, 20233.9× typical views
• "Beneath The Ice of Antarctica" Scary Stories Found on The Internet | Creepypasta695K views · Oct 12, 20193.8× typical views
• "The Settlements" (Full Story) Scary Stories from The Internet | Creepypasta523K views · May 19, 20232.8× typical views
• "A Strange Church Appeared in My Hometown" Scary Stories from The Internet | Creepypasta413K views · Mar 29, 20232.3× typical views

Latest videos

5 of The Dark Somnium's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• lunch17K views · Oct 25, 20261.1× typical views
• There's something in the hallway! #creepypasta #helpmemakethismakesense #nosleep7.3K views · Oct 24, 20260.5× typical views
• I Was Hired to Decode a Forbidden Manuscript | Scary Stories from The Internet212K views · Oct 23, 20261.2× typical views
• xenomorph11K views · Oct 18, 20260.7× typical views
• October 17, 202613K views · Oct 17, 20260.9× typical views
• I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream | Scary Stories from The Internet158K views · Oct 14, 20260.9× typical views
• Glycemia | A Hidden Webpage Story121K views · Oct 9, 20260.7× typical views
• The Kramer Institute Experiment | Scary Stories from The Internet279K views · Oct 5, 20261.6× typical views
• I Saw Something Terrifying on the Gas Station Night Shift | Scary Stories from the internet236K views · Sep 23, 20261.4× typical views
• My Wife Has Been Leaving Me Terrifying Voicemails | Scary Stories from The Internet188K views · Sep 15, 20261.1× typical views

The Stories & Narration niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 1.8K videos from 215 channels in this niche. 10.6% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 5.5K 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 39.9×), The Hidden Power (240K subs, best video 23.6×), MAOD SPRINT (128K subs, best video 71.5×), Eastern Rebirth Tales (2K subs, best video 49.3×), A Man's Destiny (13K subs, best video 46.3×), ricshortz (175K subs, best video 12.9×).

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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 The Dark Somnium or YouTube.