Paper Trail Stories YouTube Stats

@papertrailstoriesyt · Stories & Narration · Updated Nov 12, 2026

Paper Trail Stories channel overview

Paper Trail Stories (@papertrailstoriesyt) is a YouTube channel in the Stories & Narration niche created in 2023. It has 2.8K subscribers and 1.9M total views across 111 videos, an average of 17K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 15K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 4.2K views. Over the last 12 months, Paper Trail Stories published 69 videos (51% Shorts), and 10 of them (14%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Paper Trail Stories make?

Returbe estimates Paper Trail Stories's YouTube ad revenue at $1.7K – $6.8K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.93 to $3.7, typically $1.85, 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 $1.9K.

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

Paper Trail Stories publishes about 60.8 videos a month. Based on its last 69 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (25% of uploads), usually around 10:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 12, 2026.

Paper Trail Stories's best outlier videos

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

• I Cooked Thanksgiving for 300 in a School Cafeteria After the Pastor's Wife Took My Church Kitchen816K views · Oct 28, 2026196× typical views
• My Boss Said "Hard year, folks" - Then His 82-Year-Old Father Asked Where the Money Went46K views · Nov 4, 202611.1× typical views
• My mother-in-law led us into her club's Thanksgiving brunch, then told the host I was the nanny37K views · Nov 8, 20268.8× typical views
• I Plowed 23 Driveways for Free Every Winter. My Brother-in-Law Got a $6,000 State Grant for It23K views · Nov 1, 20265.4× typical views
• My stepdaughter thanked her dad, grandpa and mom at her graduation party, then looked at me...21K views · Nov 6, 20265.1× typical views
• Every Christmas Eve, the same wrong number calls my phone64K views · Oct 28, 20264.3× typical views
• I Brought My Great-Aunt to My Mother's Christmas Eve Dinner. When We Walked In Through the Garage...17K views · Nov 2, 20264.1× typical views
• I spent my cousin's wedding at the singles table with three 10-year-olds56K views · Oct 29, 20263.8× typical views

Latest videos

16 of Paper Trail Stories's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• I paid for my daughter's quinceañera with a year of Saturdays. My ex's mother took the credit1.6K views · Nov 12, 20260.1× typical views
• My sister-in-law raised her glass and thanked her parents for the down payment. It was my savings2.1K views · Nov 11, 20260.5× typical views
• I asked my stepbrother to lift my father's watch out of its box in front of 60 mourners755 views · Nov 10, 20260.2× typical views
• "She gets to be the fun aunt," my sister told 40 guests, because I can't have kids...10K views · Nov 9, 20262.5× typical views
• My mother-in-law led us into her club's Thanksgiving brunch, then told the host I was the nanny37K views · Nov 8, 20268.8× typical views
• I raised my hand at my sister's book launch after she told 80 people I was her difficult sister7.1K views · Nov 8, 20261.7× typical views
• I handed my husband's ex a spoon at Christmas, after my mother-in-law called my gravy brown water6.7K views · Nov 7, 20261.6× typical views
• "A man should give that speech," my mother said, and gave my late dad's letter to the bride's father3.5K views · Nov 7, 20260.8× typical views
• My stepdaughter thanked her dad, grandpa and mom at her graduation party, then looked at me...21K views · Nov 6, 20265.1× typical views
• I wrote my mother every week for 9 years. At her 70th, my sister said I moved away and forgot us15K views · Nov 5, 20263.6× typical views

The Stories & Narration niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 8.3K videos from 614 channels in this niche. 12.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 3.7K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $1.5 to $6.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: The Hidden Power (243K subs, best video 34.5×), Roomie Reports (53K subs, best video 22.3×), Dominion Reels (17K subs, best video 134.4×), Eastern Rebirth Tales (2.2K subs, best video 53×), Mochi Stories (7K subs, best video 37.3×), Karma Unfolded (9.2K subs, best video 28.9×).

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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 Paper Trail Stories or YouTube.