Hard Fork YouTube Stats

@hardfork · Tech & AI · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Hard Fork channel overview

Hard Fork (@hardfork) is a YouTube channel in the Tech & AI niche created in 2023. It has 75K subscribers and 7.6M total views across 692 videos, an average of 11K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 54K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 43K views. Over the last 12 months, Hard Fork published 52 videos (75% Shorts), and 7 of them (13%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Hard Fork make?

Returbe estimates Hard Fork's YouTube ad revenue at $5.5K – $22K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.51 to $14.03, typically $7.01, 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 $7K.

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Upload schedule

Hard Fork publishes about 18.5 videos a month. Based on its last 52 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (35% of uploads), usually around 12:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Hard Fork's best outlier videos

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

• Why Nathan Fielder's ‘You Can See Everything’ Left Us Reeling | Hard Fork708K views · Oct 16, 202616.5× typical views
• A Spoiler-Filled Guide to 'You Can See Everything' | Hard Fork505K views · Oct 23, 202611.8× typical views
• What's the Deal With Billy Evans and Elizabeth Holmes's Relationship?53K views · Oct 24, 202610.7× typical views
• What Happened to Sunny Balwani? 'Bad Blood' Author Answers Your Questions.47K views · Oct 27, 20269.3× typical views
• Why the Hugging Face Attack Was Worse Than We Thought384K views · Sep 4, 20269× typical views
• Why Google Paid $10 Million for Spirit Airlines Employees' Emails and Slack Messages28K views · Aug 25, 20265.6× typical views
• What Billy Evans Told Us About ‘Theranos 2.0’25K views · Oct 25, 20265× typical views
• The Two Sides of Elizabeth Holmes15K views · Oct 20, 20263× typical views

Latest videos

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

• What Happened to the Tech Right? | Ezra Klein on 'Hard Fork'830 views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• Why Tech Billionaires Couldn't Buy the 2026 Election | Hard Fork8.1K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• Could A.I. Data Centers Swing the Midterm Elections?1.3K views · Oct 31, 20260.3× typical views
• Anthropic's IPO: Why the Stakes are So High2.1K views · Oct 30, 20260.4× typical views
• What We Learned About Anthropic's Business | Hard Fork41K views · Oct 30, 20260.9× typical views
• Is Billy Evans's Blood-Testing Start-Up 'Real'?6.4K views · Oct 29, 20261.3× typical views
• Who Wrote the Tweets: Elizabeth Holmes or Billy Evans?4.8K views · Oct 28, 20261× typical views
• What Happened to Sunny Balwani? 'Bad Blood' Author Answers Your Questions.47K views · Oct 27, 20269.3× typical views
• Anthropic's IPO: Send Us Your Questions!4.5K views · Oct 27, 20260.9× typical views
• What Billy Evans Told Us About ‘Theranos 2.0’25K views · Oct 25, 20265× typical views

The Tech & AI niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 8.9K videos from 730 channels in this niche. 11.2% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 7K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $4 to $16.

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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 Hard Fork or YouTube.