fern YouTube Stats

@fern-tv · Armchair documentary true crime and internet mysteries · Updated Nov 6, 2026

fern channel overview

fern (@fern-tv) is a YouTube channel in the Armchair documentary true crime and internet mysteries niche created in 2020. It has 5.7M subscribers and 724M total views across 147 videos, an average of 4.9M views per video over its lifetime.

What the channel makes: Narrated investigative videos exploring notorious crimes, dark web scandals, unsolved cases and controversial conspiracies

Its last 30 uploads averaged 4.6M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 4.2M views. Over the last 12 months, fern published 49 videos, and 1 of them (2%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 19 days, fern gained 50K subscribers and 28M views, about 1.5M views a day.

How much does fern make?

Returbe estimates fern's YouTube ad revenue at $121K – $362K 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

fern publishes about 4.3 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Sunday (37% of uploads), usually around 14:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

fern's best outlier videos

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

• Mapping the Trump Shooting22M views · Jul 16, 20245.3× typical views
• The Kids Who Hacked The CIA20M views · Mar 17, 20244.9× typical views
• The Hunt for the King of the Dark Web17M views · Aug 20, 20234.1× typical views
• How an FBI Agent Infiltrated the KKK16M views · Nov 12, 20253.7× typical views
• The Hunt for America's Smartest Killer13M views · Apr 17, 20253× typical views
• The Only Nazi Hitler Feared12M views · Feb 15, 20262.8× typical views
• The Kids Who Hacked Xbox11M views · Sep 23, 20242.8× typical views
• The Death of Educational Content on YouTube11M views · Sep 2, 20262.7× typical views

Latest videos

7 of fern's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• How the Internet Uncovered a Massive Pokémon Fraud816K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• NATO's Plan If Russia Attacks Tomorrow4.5M views · Oct 28, 20261.1× typical views
• The Stoner Kids Dealing Guns to the Army2.4M views · Oct 21, 20260.6× typical views
• The Most Feared Kids on the Internet2.1M views · Oct 14, 20260.5× typical views
• The Strangest Place on the Internet4.3M views · Oct 7, 20261× typical views
• The Scariest Building in Europe3.2M views · Oct 2, 20260.8× typical views
• The Most Disgusting Influencer Campaign of 202611M views · Sep 23, 20262.5× typical views
• Why El Mencho Was So Hard to Catch9.1M views · Sep 16, 20262.2× typical views
• The FBI's Most Valuable Agent7.7M views · Sep 9, 20261.8× typical views
• The Death of Educational Content on YouTube11M views · Sep 2, 20262.7× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.1K videos from 499 channels in this niche. 8.1% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 21K 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 25.2×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (399K subs, best video 8.5×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 39.3×), Shezi Vlogs (270K subs, best video 63.9×).

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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 fern or YouTube.