Paint Maniac YouTube Stats

@paintmaniac-u5v · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Paint Maniac channel overview

Paint Maniac (@paintmaniac-u5v) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2026. It has 59K subscribers and 7.2M total views across 21 videos, an average of 344K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 342K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 254K views. Over the last 12 months, Paint Maniac published 21 videos, and 1 of them (5%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 19 days, Paint Maniac gained 6.3K subscribers and 1.4M views, about 71K views a day.

How much does Paint Maniac make?

Returbe estimates Paint Maniac's YouTube ad revenue at $4.6K – $14K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 to $9, typically $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 $5K.

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

Paint Maniac publishes about 3.3 videos a month. Based on its last 21 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (24% of uploads), usually around 20:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 30, 2026.

Paint Maniac's best outlier videos

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

• The Disturbing Audio Recordings Explained895K views · Aug 6, 20263.5× typical views
• Every Dark Web Mystery Explained713K views · Jun 4, 20262.8× typical views
• 1 Hour of Internet Horrors612K views · Aug 30, 20262.4× typical views
• The ████ Epstein Mysteries Explained545K views · Aug 13, 20262.1× typical views
• Every Meme With a Horrific Backstory Explained540K views · Sep 6, 20262.1× typical views
• Every Infamous Internet Video Explained443K views · Jun 10, 20261.7× typical views
• Every Disturbing Rabbit Hole Explained422K views · Sep 29, 20261.7× typical views
• The Origins of Unnerving Images Explained403K views · Oct 17, 20261.6× typical views

Latest videos

9 of Paint Maniac's last 21 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• 1 Hour of Horrific Information175K views · Oct 30, 20260.7× typical views
• The Disgusting Internet Communities Explained166K views · Oct 25, 20260.7× typical views
• The Origins of Unnerving Images Explained403K views · Oct 17, 20261.6× typical views
• Every Dark Web Mystery Explained [2]228K views · Oct 7, 20260.9× typical views
• Every Disturbing Rabbit Hole Explained422K views · Sep 29, 20261.7× typical views
• The Brutal Surgery Cases Explained166K views · Sep 23, 20260.7× typical views
• The Disturbing Roblox Media Explained366K views · Sep 13, 20261.4× typical views
• Every Meme With a Horrific Backstory Explained540K views · Sep 6, 20262.1× typical views
• 1 Hour of Internet Horrors612K views · Aug 30, 20262.4× typical views
• Horrors of the Russian Internet Explained111K views · Aug 20, 20260.4× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.2K videos from 517 channels in this niche. 8.2% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 20K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Crime 360 (241K subs, best video 15×), Criminally Obsessed (247K subs, best video 36.9×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.3×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (399K subs, best video 8.8×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 39.3×), Crazy planet (31K subs, best video 58.2×).

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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 Paint Maniac or YouTube.