Dr Insanity YouTube Stats

@drinsanitycrime · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 5, 2026

Dr Insanity channel overview

Dr Insanity (@drinsanitycrime) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2022. It has 6.2M subscribers and 1.7B total views across 141 videos, an average of 12M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 16M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 16M views. Over the last 12 months, Dr Insanity published 33 videos, and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 19 days, Dr Insanity gained 100K subscribers and 53M views, about 2.8M views a day.

How much does Dr Insanity make?

Returbe estimates Dr Insanity's YouTube ad revenue at $337K – $1M 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

Dr Insanity publishes about 4.3 videos a month. Based on its last 54 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (33% of uploads), usually around 19:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 4, 2026.

Dr Insanity's best outlier videos

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

• Rich Mass Killer Realizes She's Been Caught 8 Years Later41M views · Aug 28, 20262.5× typical views
• How Police Captured Colorado's Smartest Killer39M views · Dec 3, 20252.4× typical views
• Colorado Hitman Caught On Camera Moments Before Executing Her Target32M views · Sep 11, 20262× typical views
• Killer Couple Realizes Cops Found Their Murder House22M views · Nov 25, 20241.8× typical views
• Cop Runs Into Secret Killer Dumping Body Parts In River27M views · Apr 16, 20261.7× typical views
• 13 Year Old Realizes His Twin Brother Just Killed Someone25M views · May 30, 20261.6× typical views
• Hidden Camera Reveals Wanted Killer Living Inside Family's Attic24M views · Aug 14, 20261.5× typical views
• Daughters Lead Police To Mother's Dead Body24M views · Dec 30, 20251.5× typical views

Latest videos

6 of Dr Insanity's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Mother Realizes Her Husband Just Buried Their Son Alive2.4M views · Nov 4, 20260.1× typical views
• How Police Captured The Highway Cop Killer7.6M views · Oct 30, 20260.5× typical views
• Ringing Phone In Trash Can Leads Police To Serial Killer’s Secret Hideout4.6M views · Oct 16, 20260.3× typical views
• Cops Find 12 Year Old Son Dead Inside Grandmother's Shed5.5M views · Oct 9, 20260.3× typical views
• Couple Gets Pulled Over In The Middle Of Transporting A Rotting Body14M views · Sep 25, 20260.8× typical views
• 50 SWAT Officers Hunt Down The Arkansas Hospital Shooter14M views · Sep 18, 20260.9× typical views
• Colorado Hitman Caught On Camera Moments Before Executing Her Target32M views · Sep 11, 20262× typical views
• 24/7 True Crime Livestream - Dr. Insanity TV - With Live Chat0 views · Sep 9, 20260× typical views
• Rich Mass Killer Realizes She's Been Caught 8 Years Later41M views · Aug 28, 20262.5× typical views
• Hidden Camera Reveals Wanted Killer Living Inside Family's Attic24M views · Aug 14, 20261.5× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.1K videos from 497 channels in this niche. 8% 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 17.9×), Criminally Obsessed (247K subs, best video 36.9×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 24.8×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 36.1×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (398K subs, best video 8.5×), Shezi Vlogs (270K subs, best video 63.5×).

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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 Dr Insanity or YouTube.