Origins Explained YouTube Stats

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

Origins Explained channel overview

Origins Explained (@originsexplained) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2016. It has 3.9M subscribers and 1.1B total views across 4.5K videos, an average of 232K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 116K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 78K views. Over the last 12 months, Origins Explained published 64 videos, and 7 of them (11%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Origins Explained gained 0 subscribers and 3.3M views, about 195K views a day.

How much does Origins Explained make?

Returbe estimates Origins Explained's YouTube ad revenue at $18K – $59K 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

Origins Explained publishes about 29.3 videos a month. Based on its last 64 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (16% of uploads), usually around 20:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Origins Explained's best outlier videos

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

• They Found Something IMPOSSIBLE Deep Inside a Mountain1.3M views · Sep 6, 202616.5× typical views
• Scientists Found Something IMPOSSIBLE Beneath Antarctica478K views · Oct 22, 20266.2× typical views
• Archaeologists Just Discovered Something They Weren’t Expecting381K views · Sep 22, 20264.9× typical views
• They Found a Civilization That Shouldn’t EXIST372K views · Oct 17, 20264.8× typical views
• 10 Incredible Discoveries Archaeologists Made Last Month370K views · Sep 21, 20264.8× typical views
• New Scans Exposed What the Terracotta Army Is Really Guarding!289K views · Sep 3, 20263.7× typical views
• Advanced Pre-Flood Civilization That Vanished 12,000 Years Ago259K views · Sep 17, 20263.3× typical views
• Scientists Found Out What Orcas REALLY Think of Humans224K views · Oct 28, 20262.9× typical views

Latest videos

9 of Origins Explained's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Miners Found a Wheel in Rock OLDER Than the Dinosaurs77K views · Nov 5, 20261× typical views
• Divers Found What This 4,700-Year-Old Ship Was CARRYING57K views · Nov 4, 20260.7× typical views
• They Found Proof Civilization Is Much OLDER Than We Thought | Marathon52K views · Nov 3, 20260.7× typical views
• They Found Something IMPOSSIBLE Buried Underground68K views · Nov 2, 20260.9× typical views
• Archaeologists Found a Link Between Ruins 10,000 Years APART48K views · Nov 1, 20260.6× typical views
• They Found Something in America That Shouldn’t EXIST71K views · Oct 31, 20260.9× typical views
• They Found Something BIGGER Than the Pyramids Under Egypt144K views · Oct 30, 20261.9× typical views
• They Found Something IMPOSSIBLE Hidden in America199K views · Oct 29, 20262.6× typical views
• Scientists Found Out What Orcas REALLY Think of Humans224K views · Oct 28, 20262.9× typical views
• They Found Lost Worlds That Shouldn’t EXIST | Marathon63K views · Oct 27, 20260.8× 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

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