Fork the People YouTube Stats

@forkthepeople · Food & Cooking · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Fork the People channel overview

Fork the People (@forkthepeople) is a YouTube channel in the Food & Cooking niche created in 2022. It has 642K subscribers and 275M total views across 153 videos, an average of 1.8M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 2.1M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.7M views. Over the last 12 months, Fork the People published 32 videos (97% Shorts), and 10 of them (31%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Fork the People gained 14K subscribers and 12M views, about 697K views a day.

How much does Fork the People make?

Returbe estimates Fork the People's YouTube ad revenue at $654 – $2.2K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.07 to $0.23, typically $0.13, 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 $130.

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

Fork the People publishes about 3.3 videos a month. Based on its last 52 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (31% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 28, 2026.

Fork the People's best outlier videos

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

• Fancy Ratatouille (Confit Byaldi) #food #cooking11M views · Mar 12, 202613.9× typical views
• The Key to a Good Guacamole #ad #instacart #instacartpartner #instacart6.9M views · Jun 29, 20268.6× typical views
• Overripe vs Underripe Banana Bread #ad #instacart #InstacartPartner6.4M views · Jun 22, 20267.9× typical views
• Michelin Star Hummus #cooking #food4.9M views · Apr 17, 20266× typical views
• Food Formulas | Spice Mixes 🌶️ #cooking #food4.8M views · Oct 7, 20265.9× typical views
• The World’s “Hardest”Omelette (Omurice) #cooking #food4M views · Jan 22, 20264.9× typical views
• Recreating Rolo’s “2-Sheet Lasagna” #cooking #food3.8M views · Sep 22, 20264.7× typical views
• Recreating the Lori Jayne “Steak Frites” #cooking #food3.6M views · May 20, 20264.4× typical views

Latest videos

13 of Fork the People's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Cookbook Recommendations #cooking #food213K views · Oct 28, 20260.3× typical views
• Attempting to create the world’s greatest vodka pasta (version 2.0) #cooking #food581K views · Oct 23, 20260.7× typical views
• The World’s Longest Chicken Wing Recipe #cooking #food1.6M views · Oct 16, 20261.9× typical views
• Food Formulas | Spice Mixes 🌶️ #cooking #food4.8M views · Oct 7, 20265.9× typical views
• 3 Ways to Make Aglio e Olio #cooking #food2.5M views · Sep 30, 20263.1× typical views
• Recreating Rolo’s “2-Sheet Lasagna” #cooking #food3.8M views · Sep 22, 20264.7× typical views
• The Ultimate Fish Curry #cooking #food253K views · Sep 16, 20260.3× typical views
• Recreating a Michelin Chef’s 10-hour Sausage Ragu #cooking #food713K views · Sep 10, 20260.9× typical views
• Recreating the best roast chicken I’ve ever had 🇵🇷 #cooking #food126K views · Sep 4, 20260.2× typical views
• Anthony Bourdain’s “Steak Au Poivre” #cooking #food252K views · Aug 25, 20260.3× typical views

The Food & Cooking niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.6K videos from 677 channels in this niche. 12.8% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 7.9K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2.5 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: ChefClick (46K subs, best video 110.3×), Hauptsache Wissen (130K subs, best video 31.6×), Outback Caravan Guide (86K subs, best video 93.4×), Chinese Cuisine 6969 (105K subs, best video 7.6×), Dadi’s Crazy Kitchen (183K subs, best video 21.6×), TODAY Food (38K subs, best video 15.5×).

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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 Fork the People or YouTube.