Ink Explainer YouTube Stats

@inkexplainer96 · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Ink Explainer channel overview

Ink Explainer (@inkexplainer96) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2026. It has 163K subscribers and 28M total views across 20 videos, an average of 1.4M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.4M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 301K views. Over the last 12 months, Ink Explainer published 20 videos, and 6 of them (30%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 7 days, Ink Explainer gained 8K subscribers and 1.8M views, about 253K views a day.

How much does Ink Explainer make?

Returbe estimates Ink Explainer's YouTube ad revenue at $26K – $86K 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

Ink Explainer publishes about 3.3 videos a month. Based on its last 20 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (25% of uploads), usually around 19:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 31, 2026.

Ink Explainer's best outlier videos

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

• What Did Ancient Humans Actually Do All Day?18M views · Aug 21, 202661.1× typical views
• What Did Ancient Humans Do When It Rained All Week?2M views · Jul 3, 20266.6× typical views
• Why Are We the Only Human Species Left? What happened to others...1.7M views · Jun 14, 20265.7× typical views
• The Disturbing Ways Ancient Humans Survived Winter1.5M views · Jul 16, 20265× typical views
• When Did Ancient Humans Start Drinking Alcohol?935K views · May 16, 20263.1× typical views
• How Did Ancient Humans Travel the World?904K views · Jun 23, 20263× typical views
• When Did Ancient Humans Start Smoking Weed?758K views · Jun 5, 20262.5× typical views
• Why Ancient Humans Were The Most TERRIFYING Animal Alive480K views · Aug 7, 20261.6× typical views

Latest videos

8 of Ink Explainer's last 20 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• How Long Would You Survive in Every Era of Earth?62K views · Oct 31, 20260.2× typical views
• Why Did Ancient Humans Evolve In Africa?46K views · Oct 27, 20260.2× typical views
• Why Did Human Progress Explode 10,000 Years Ago After 300,000 Years of Nothing? (11 Min Explainer)90K views · Oct 18, 20260.3× typical views
• What Did Ancient Humans Actually Do all Night?116K views · Oct 4, 20260.4× typical views
• How Did Ancient Humans Survive the Deadliest Predators on Earth?197K views · Sep 27, 20260.7× typical views
• What Did Ancient Humans Do For Pleasure?287K views · Sep 4, 20261× typical views
• What Did Ancient Humans Actually Do All Day?18M views · Aug 21, 202661.1× typical views
• Why Ancient Humans Were The Most TERRIFYING Animal Alive480K views · Aug 7, 20261.6× typical views
• How Did Human Accidentally Invented Guns?81K views · Jul 25, 20260.3× typical views
• The Disturbing Ways Ancient Humans Survived Winter1.5M views · Jul 16, 20265× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.6K videos from 400 channels in this niche. 13% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 12K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 202×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 42.9×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 25.3×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 61.9×), James Sullivan (6.8K subs, best video 10.5×), ViralVerseUSA (9.4K subs, best video 38.8×).

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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 Ink Explainer or YouTube.