JohntheDuncan YouTube Stats

@johntheduncan · News & Politics · Updated Nov 6, 2026

JohntheDuncan channel overview

JohntheDuncan (@johntheduncan) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2009. It has 53K subscribers and 3M total views across 505 videos, an average of 6K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 5K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 20K views. Over the last 12 months, JohntheDuncan published 56 videos (82% Shorts), and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 13 days, JohntheDuncan gained 200 subscribers and 45K views, about 3.5K views a day.

How much does JohntheDuncan make?

Returbe estimates JohntheDuncan's YouTube ad revenue at $88 – $349 per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.55 to $6.19, typically $3.1, 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 $3.1K.

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

JohntheDuncan publishes about 16.3 videos a month. Based on its last 54 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (22% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 3, 2026.

JohntheDuncan's best outlier videos

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

• Free Speech is Fake: Marx, Human Rights, and Academic Freedom in the Face of White Supremacism50K views · Sep 11, 20262.5× typical views
• Manchesterism: A Neoliberal Death Machine38K views · Aug 20, 20261.9× typical views
• From Pop Art to Slop Art: AI, Consumer Society and Why I Don’t Just Let People Enjoy Things33K views · Oct 24, 20261.7× typical views
• The Global Police State: Policing, and the production of Fascist Ideology26K views · Oct 9, 20261.3× typical views
• The 'Hidden Roots' of Neoliberal Fascism14K views · Jul 10, 20260.7× typical views
• From Lemkin to Life-making: Bridging Critical Genocide Studies and Social Reproduction Theory11K views · Sep 26, 20260.6× typical views
• Radical Centrism: AI Powered Authoritarianism11K views · Jun 12, 20260.5× typical views
• Hasan Piker is dressed like Mao? Liberal complicity in growing fascism #politics #breadtok #leftist2.6K views · Aug 2, 20260.5× typical views

Latest videos

2 of JohntheDuncan's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• We need humanity. AI art gives us nothing #ai #aiart #leftist #breadtok995 views · Nov 3, 20260.2× typical views
• AI art: an opiate for the masses #aiart #breadtok #leftist #marxism802 views · Oct 31, 20260.2× typical views
• This video is a commodity #leftist #aiart #marxism #breadtok672 views · Oct 29, 20260.1× typical views
• how capitalism turns you into a cog in the machine #leftist #breadtok #politicstiktok #aiart1.4K views · Oct 27, 20260.3× typical views
• I will never let people enjoy things #ai #leftist #breadtok #politicstiktok1.9K views · Oct 26, 20260.4× typical views
• why AI art is shite #ai #aiart #leftist #breadtok1.2K views · Oct 25, 20260.2× typical views
• AI art, consumerism, and fascism #aiart #leftist #politics #left973 views · Oct 24, 20260.2× typical views
• From Pop Art to Slop Art: AI, Consumer Society and Why I Don’t Just Let People Enjoy Things33K views · Oct 24, 20261.7× typical views
• where does fascist ideology come from? #leftist #breadtok #politicstiktok #marxism864 views · Oct 21, 20260.2× typical views
• authoritarianism vs fascism? #leftist #ice #acab #breadtok911 views · Oct 17, 20260.2× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 56K videos from 828 channels in this niche. 18% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 15K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2 to $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 JohntheDuncan or YouTube.