Simple Paint YouTube Stats

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

Simple Paint channel overview

Simple Paint (@simplepaintofficial) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2017. It has 545K subscribers and 120M total views across 138 videos, an average of 868K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 410K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 236K views. Over the last 12 months, Simple Paint published 54 videos, and 7 of them (13%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, Simple Paint gained 10K subscribers and 5M views, about 250K views a day.

How much does Simple Paint make?

Returbe estimates Simple Paint's YouTube ad revenue at $20K – $68K 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.

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

Simple Paint publishes about 8.7 videos a month. Based on its last 54 uploads, its most common upload day is Sunday (46% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Simple Paint's best outlier videos

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

• The Most Horrifying Ways People Got Trapped3.2M views · Oct 1, 202613.4× typical views
• The Worst Places To Die In Space2.1M views · May 4, 20268.7× typical views
• The Deadliest Man-Eaters to Ever Exist1.4M views · Apr 24, 20265.8× typical views
• The Most Bizarre Ways People Tried to Cheat Death1.4M views · Jun 11, 20265.8× typical views
• How to Survive Every Natural Disaster1M views · Oct 15, 20264.4× typical views
• Gamers Who Took Their Obsession Too Far1M views · Sep 20, 20264.3× typical views
• The Most Horrifying Ways Nature Can Kill You971K views · Aug 9, 20264.1× typical views
• The Most Disturbing Internet Rabbit Holes693K views · Apr 30, 20262.9× typical views

Latest videos

11 of Simple Paint's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Most Horrifying Ways People Got Trapped (Pt. 2)140K views · Nov 5, 20260.6× typical views
• The Deadliest Snipers In History47K views · Nov 1, 20260.2× typical views
• The Most Terrifying Chemical Weapons Ever Used55K views · Oct 28, 20260.2× typical views
• The Worst Crimes People Got Away With (Pt. 2)102K views · Oct 25, 20260.4× typical views
• Rescue Missions That Made Everything Worse54K views · Oct 22, 20260.2× typical views
• How To Survive Every Poison60K views · Oct 18, 20260.3× typical views
• How to Survive Every Natural Disaster1M views · Oct 15, 20264.4× typical views
• The Most Insane Anti-Heroes in History50K views · Oct 11, 20260.2× typical views
• How To Survive Every Apex Predator603K views · Oct 8, 20262.6× typical views
• The Most EVIL People You’ve Never Heard Of218K views · Oct 4, 20260.9× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.5K videos from 377 channels in this niche. 13.4% 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 202.4×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 26.7×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 42.9×), James Sullivan (6.8K subs, best video 11.7×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 61.9×), ViralVerseUSA (9.4K subs, best video 38.8×).

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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 Simple Paint or YouTube.