Forgotten American Skills YouTube Stats

@forgottenamericanskills · Travel & Outdoors · Updated Nov 15, 2026

Forgotten American Skills channel overview

Forgotten American Skills (@forgottenamericanskills) is a YouTube channel in the Travel & Outdoors niche created in 2026. It has 52K subscribers and 11M total views across 105 videos, an average of 101K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 56K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 20K views. Over the last 12 months, Forgotten American Skills published 31 videos, and 9 of them (29%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Forgotten American Skills make?

Returbe estimates Forgotten American Skills's YouTube ad revenue at $6K – $20K 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

Forgotten American Skills publishes about 18.5 videos a month. Based on its last 31 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (42% of uploads), usually around 03:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 13, 2026.

Forgotten American Skills's best outlier videos

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

• 20 POOR MAN’S $5 Campfire Dinners That Make Expensive Camping Food Look Like a Scam425K views · Oct 22, 202621.5× typical views
• 15 POOR MAN’S No-Cooler Meals That Make Pricey Camping Food Look Ridiculous229K views · Oct 13, 202611.6× typical views
• 25 POOR MAN'S Camping Storage Tricks That Make a Small Car Feel Like a Camper151K views · Oct 13, 20267.6× typical views
• 25 POOR MAN’S 5-Gallon Bucket Camping Tricks That Make Expensive Outdoor Gear Look Ridiculous143K views · Oct 29, 20267.2× typical views
• 25 POOR MAN’S Camp-Kitchen Tricks That Make $1,500 Outdoor Cooking Gear Look Like a Scam121K views · Oct 13, 20266.1× typical views
• 25 POOR MAN'S Camping Hygiene Tricks That Make Expensive Shower Setups Look Ridiculous103K views · Oct 13, 20265.2× typical views
• 25 POOR MAN’S Milk Crate Camping Tricks That Replace Expensive Outdoor Gear62K views · Nov 11, 20263.1× typical views
• 25 POOR MAN’S Boondocking Tricks That Make $10,000 Off-Grid RV Upgrades Look Like a Scam61K views · Oct 13, 20263.1× typical views

Latest videos

10 of Forgotten American Skills's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• 25 POOR MAN’S Winter Camping Fixes That Keep Cheap Gear Working in Freezing Weather4.6K views · Nov 13, 20260.2× typical views
• 25 POOR MAN’S Milk Crate Camping Tricks That Replace Expensive Outdoor Gear62K views · Nov 11, 20263.1× typical views
• 20 POOR MAN’S 3-Ingredient Campfire Dinners That Beat Expensive Camping Food17K views · Nov 10, 20260.9× typical views
• 25 POOR MAN’S No-Electricity Camping Tricks That Make $3,000 Off-Grid Gear Look Ridiculous8.4K views · Nov 8, 20260.4× typical views
• 25 POOR MAN’S Cold-Weather Car-Camping Tricks That Make $2,000 Winter Gear Look Ridiculous14K views · Nov 6, 20260.7× typical views
• 20 POOR MAN’S Camping Dinners That Feed Two for $5 Without a Cooler8.7K views · Nov 4, 20260.4× typical views
• 25 POOR MAN’S Campsite Fixes Using Household Items That Make $1,000 Gear Look Like a Scam23K views · Nov 2, 20261.2× typical views
• 25 POOR MAN’S Pickup-Truck Camping Tricks That Make Expensive Truck Campers Look Like a Scam32K views · Oct 31, 20261.6× typical views
• 20 POOR MAN’S $3 Campfire Breakfasts That Make Expensive Camping Food Look Like a Scam18K views · Oct 29, 20260.9× typical views
• 25 POOR MAN’S 5-Gallon Bucket Camping Tricks That Make Expensive Outdoor Gear Look Ridiculous143K views · Oct 29, 20267.2× 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.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: France 3 Bretagne (141K subs, best video 83.1×), Ngoc Linh (337K subs, best video 160.4×), Crusty Face (76K subs, best video 44.7×), Greenbrier Bushcraft (41K subs, best video 122.3×), Sharon Dawson (11K subs, best video 114.8×), kohstan kal (6.2K subs, best video 139.6×).

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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 Forgotten American Skills or YouTube.