MonkeyExplains YouTube Stats

@monkeyexplains1999 · News & Politics · Updated Nov 7, 2026

MonkeyExplains channel overview

MonkeyExplains (@monkeyexplains1999) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2012. It has 256K subscribers and 25M total views across 137 videos, an average of 185K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 475K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 397K views. Over the last 12 months, MonkeyExplains published 15 videos, and 1 of them (7%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does MonkeyExplains make?

Returbe estimates MonkeyExplains's YouTube ad revenue at $3.1K – $13K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1 to $4, typically $2, 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 $2K.

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Upload schedule

MonkeyExplains publishes about 4.3 videos a month. Based on its last 15 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (27% of uploads), usually around 12:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 2, 2026.

MonkeyExplains's best outlier videos

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

• Why Hasn’t The AI Bubble Burst (Yet)?2.2M views · Nov 2, 20265.5× typical views
• OpenAI's Financial Crisis is Worse Than You Think455K views · Sep 8, 20261.1× typical views
• South Korea's AI Bubble Crash Is Terrifying, Actually453K views · Sep 8, 20261.1× typical views
• Meta's Disturbing AI "Gulags"437K views · Aug 9, 20261.1× typical views
• WTF Is Happening To US Bonds?415K views · Oct 8, 20261× typical views
• WTF Is Happening To SpaceX?414K views · Sep 8, 20261× typical views
• China's Population Collapse Has Already Begun412K views · Oct 8, 20261× typical views
• The AI Industry's Hidden Debt Is Terrifying, Actually397K views · Oct 8, 20261× typical views

Latest videos

1 of MonkeyExplains's last 15 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Why Hasn’t The AI Bubble Burst (Yet)?2.2M views · Nov 2, 20265.5× typical views
• The EU is Quietly Destroying The Internet182K views · Oct 25, 20260.5× typical views
• The New US Oil Crisis Has Just Landed319K views · Oct 24, 20260.8× typical views
• The US Student Debt Bubble Is Worse Than It Looks234K views · Oct 17, 20260.6× typical views
• The AI Industry's Hidden Debt Is Terrifying, Actually397K views · Oct 8, 20261× typical views
• China's Population Collapse Has Already Begun412K views · Oct 8, 20261× typical views
• The US Debt Crisis Has Reached a Breaking Point394K views · Oct 8, 20261× typical views
• WTF Is Happening To US Bonds?415K views · Oct 8, 20261× typical views
• WTF Is Happening To SpaceX?414K views · Sep 8, 20261× typical views
• America's Job Market Is Completely F*cked302K views · Sep 8, 20260.8× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 59K videos from 997 channels in this niche. 17% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 16K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2 to $8.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: ESdiario TV (117K subs, best video 64.4×), BNN Bloomberg (188K subs, best video 224.3×), CP24 (383K subs, best video 36.3×), France 3 Grand Est (241K subs, best video 99.5×), NBC Montana (107K subs, best video 1375.8×), Onda Cero (421K subs, best video 140.7×).

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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 MonkeyExplains or YouTube.