RealLifeLore YouTube Stats

@reallifelore · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 10, 2026

RealLifeLore channel overview

RealLifeLore (@reallifelore) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2016. It has 7.9M subscribers and 2B total views across 508 videos, an average of 3.9M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.3M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.2M views. Over the last 12 months, RealLifeLore published 39 videos, and 1 of them (3%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does RealLifeLore make?

Returbe estimates RealLifeLore's YouTube ad revenue at $12K – $39K 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

RealLifeLore publishes about 4.3 videos a month. Based on its last 50 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (38% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 31, 2026.

RealLifeLore's best outlier videos

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

• Why The Taliban Are Begging The US To Come Back3.8M views · Sep 11, 20263.1× typical views
• What's Hidden Under the Jungles of New Guinea?2.6M views · Dec 24, 20252.1× typical views
• Why The Nepal Flood Was WAY Scarier Than You Think2.3M views · Sep 19, 20261.9× typical views
• The Worst Horror On Earth You Aren't Being Told About2.3M views · Nov 28, 20251.8× typical views
• Why Russia is Suddenly Losing in Ukraine2.1M views · Jun 12, 20261.7× typical views
• How The Iran War is Becoming a World War2.1M views · Mar 18, 20261.7× typical views
• Crimea Situation Is Insane2M views · Jul 9, 20261.6× typical views
• Why Everything is Going Wrong for Saudi Arabia1.9M views · Sep 30, 20261.5× typical views

Latest videos

6 of RealLifeLore's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Why the Pacific Northwest Coast is Insanely Empty865K views · Oct 31, 20260.7× typical views
• How To Save a Child's Life From Gaza179K views · Oct 29, 20260.1× typical views
• Why Russia Thinks It Can Attack Europe and WIN1.4M views · Oct 23, 20261.1× typical views
• Why The US Is Suddenly Attacking Canada1.2M views · Oct 15, 20261× typical views
• Why Everything is Going Wrong for Saudi Arabia1.9M views · Sep 30, 20261.5× typical views
• Why The Nepal Flood Was WAY Scarier Than You Think2.3M views · Sep 19, 20261.9× typical views
• Why The Taliban Are Begging The US To Come Back3.8M views · Sep 11, 20263.1× typical views
• Why 600,000 People Live On This Rock With No Resources1.3M views · Aug 31, 20261.1× typical views
• New Somali Piracy Situation is Insane1.3M views · Aug 21, 20261× typical views
• How China Keeps Winning by Doing Nothing1.4M views · Aug 12, 20261.1× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 6.6K videos from 819 channels in this niche. 14.6% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 11K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (274K subs, best video 274×), Maze Runner (21K subs, best video 7.9×), Military Exposed Shorts (141K subs, best video 89.7×), Military History Talks (46K subs, best video 14.8×), Alex Nguyen (4.2K subs, best video 65.9×), Volkslied (10K subs, best video 25.1×).

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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 RealLifeLore or YouTube.