Nostalgia Nerd YouTube Stats

@nostalgianerd · Gaming · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Nostalgia Nerd channel overview

Nostalgia Nerd (@nostalgianerd) is a YouTube channel in the Gaming niche created in 2014. It has 593K subscribers and 112M total views across 788 videos, an average of 143K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 394K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 58K views. Over the last 12 months, Nostalgia Nerd published 51 videos (67% Shorts), and 5 of them (10%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Nostalgia Nerd gained 0 subscribers and 211K views, about 12K views a day.

How much does Nostalgia Nerd make?

Returbe estimates Nostalgia Nerd's YouTube ad revenue at $737 – $2.9K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.66 to $2.64, typically $1.32, 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 $1.3K.

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

Nostalgia Nerd publishes about 2.2 videos a month. Based on its last 51 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (31% of uploads), usually around 17:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 29, 2026.

Nostalgia Nerd's best outlier videos

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

• Explain this Fossilised Keyboard9.7M views · Mar 11, 2026581.3× typical views
• This Mysterious Computer Could Prove Time Travel Exists | Nostalgia Nerd6.2M views · Nov 17, 202143.8× typical views
• I Have a Very Specific Dream... | RayNeo Air4 Pro695K views · Jun 24, 202611.9× typical views
• When British Devs Don't Understand American English147K views · Feb 18, 20268.8× typical views
• When you Forget a Console has no Keyboard139K views · Feb 16, 20268.3× typical views
• These Machines Need to be Studied173K views · Aug 31, 20263× typical views
• When a Hard Drive got Massive for No Reason173K views · Sep 26, 20263× typical views
• Greatest Gaming Mouse of All Time35K views · Sep 15, 20262.1× typical views

Latest videos

10 of Nostalgia Nerd's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Knows Everything About You58K views · Oct 29, 20261× typical views
• There is only One Reason to buy Boltgun II30K views · Oct 14, 20260.5× typical views
• Sonic 2 on the Mega PC #retrogaming17K views · Sep 28, 20261× typical views
• When a Hard Drive got Massive for No Reason173K views · Sep 26, 20263× typical views
• This Shouldn't Work59K views · Sep 23, 20261× typical views
• Greatest Gaming Mouse of All Time35K views · Sep 15, 20262.1× typical views
• These Machines Need to be Studied173K views · Aug 31, 20263× typical views
• Finally, it's over70K views · Aug 29, 20261.2× typical views
• ZX Spectrum Deluxe Box12K views · Jul 18, 20260.7× typical views
• I Have a Very Specific Dream... | RayNeo Air4 Pro695K views · Jun 24, 202611.9× typical views

The Gaming niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 38K videos from 2.3K channels in this niche. 10.2% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 76K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $1.5 to $6.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: SISMA FAMILY (439K subs, best video 113.2×), Star Hunt (282K subs, best video 74.1×), Mario Friendly (479K subs, best video 56.3×), More1980sGamer (459K subs, best video 117×), Abi Army (412K subs, best video 41.9×), StundZow Clips (107K subs, best video 121.4×).

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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 Nostalgia Nerd or YouTube.