ALEX The Hermit YouTube Stats

@foresthermit · Travel & Outdoors · Updated Nov 14, 2026

ALEX The Hermit channel overview

ALEX The Hermit (@foresthermit) is a YouTube channel in the Travel & Outdoors niche created in 2022. It has 74K subscribers and 24M total views across 150 videos, an average of 161K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 105K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 34K views. Over the last 12 months, ALEX The Hermit published 30 videos, and 8 of them (27%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 7 days, ALEX The Hermit gained 100 subscribers and 80K views, about 11K views a day.

How much does ALEX The Hermit make?

Returbe estimates ALEX The Hermit's YouTube ad revenue at $1.1K – $3.6K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 to $10, typically $5.5, 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 $5.5K.

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Upload schedule

ALEX The Hermit publishes about 2.2 videos a month. Based on its last 30 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (20% of uploads), usually around 18:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

ALEX The Hermit's best outlier videos

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

• Building a warm and cozy forest house from start to finish906K views · Jun 10, 202627× typical views
• Building a dugout for survival during snowfall in the forest403K views · Mar 12, 202612× typical views
• Building of a secret underground shelter inside the mountain307K views · May 11, 20269.2× typical views
• Building My Most Dangerous Shelter Yet: Near the Jackals257K views · Aug 9, 20267.7× typical views
• Building the coziest dugouts in the wild. Bushcraft and survival231K views · Sep 8, 20266.9× typical views
• Building a winter shelter in the ground using clay and sticks, bushcraft survival200K views · Apr 11, 20266× typical views
• Building A Warm And Secret Underground Shelter For The Winter, survival skills138K views · Jun 10, 20264.1× typical views
• Building of a secret cave. Bushcraft survival. Forest cooking135K views · Jun 10, 20264× typical views

Latest videos

10 of ALEX The Hermit's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Building A Warm And Secret Underground Shelter For The Winter66K views · Nov 7, 20262× typical views
• Building a Cozy Shelter with a Clay Fireplace Under a Huge Tree45K views · Oct 28, 20261.3× typical views
• Building a Secret and Cozy Hideout inside a clay mountain. Clay fireplace25K views · Oct 17, 20260.7× typical views
• Bushcraft survival: 2 days in the wild forest with minimal gear.6.6K views · Oct 8, 20260.2× typical views
• Building a cozy forest camp out of logs and clay6.5K views · Oct 8, 20260.2× typical views
• Life at the Forest House caught in the rain, cooking on a Finnish candle stove15K views · Oct 8, 20260.4× typical views
• Building cozy, warm winter shelters near a fallen tree40K views · Sep 8, 20261.2× typical views
• Building the coziest dugouts in the wild. Bushcraft and survival231K views · Sep 8, 20266.9× typical views
• Building the best secret survival dugouts in the forest25K views · Sep 8, 20260.8× typical views
• Building a Secret Shelter Under a Tree Stump | Bushcraft & Survival4.3K views · Aug 9, 20260.1× typical views

The Travel & Outdoors niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.3K videos from 1.1K channels in this niche. 13.6% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 15K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

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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 ALEX The Hermit or YouTube.