Small Brained American YouTube Stats

@smallbrainedamerican · Travel & Outdoors · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Small Brained American channel overview

Small Brained American (@smallbrainedamerican) is a YouTube channel in the Travel & Outdoors niche created in 2020. It has 998K subscribers and 96M total views across 163 videos, an average of 588K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 879K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 730K views. Over the last 12 months, Small Brained American published 16 videos, and 1 of them (6%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Small Brained American make?

Returbe estimates Small Brained American's YouTube ad revenue at $4.1K – $14K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.5 to $5, typically $2.75, 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 $2.8K.

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Upload schedule

Small Brained American publishes about 2.2 videos a month. Based on its last 31 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (55% of uploads), usually around 20:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

Small Brained American's best outlier videos

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

• Afghanistan is Hell on Earth2.4M views · Oct 24, 20263.2× typical views
• Inside Somalia’s Rebel State1.4M views · Jan 11, 20261.9× typical views
• Scamming the Scammers at the Pyramids1.1M views · Feb 10, 20261.5× typical views
• I Went to Afghanistan on 9/11951K views · Oct 8, 20261.3× typical views
• Investigating Illegal Sweatshops in Bangladesh937K views · May 11, 20261.3× typical views
• Africa...Make it Stop849K views · Dec 12, 20251.2× typical views
• An Alcoholic's Guide to Drinking in Tokyo (relapse edition)736K views · Apr 11, 20261× typical views
• Can We Illegally Sneak Into North Korea?868K views · Nov 7, 20251× typical views

Latest videos

3 of Small Brained American's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• You've Been Lied to About Afghanistan362K views · Nov 7, 20260.5× typical views
• Afghanistan is Hell on Earth2.4M views · Oct 24, 20263.2× typical views
• I Went to Afghanistan on 9/11951K views · Oct 8, 20261.3× typical views
• Investigating China's Last Communist Village691K views · Sep 8, 20260.9× typical views
• Hitching to Tibet by any Means Necessary502K views · Sep 8, 20260.7× typical views
• I Became a Communist Hero in China674K views · Aug 9, 20260.9× typical views
• Inside the American Ghettos of Okinawa724K views · Jun 10, 20261× typical views
• Investigating Illegal Sweatshops in Bangladesh937K views · May 11, 20261.3× typical views
• How Long Till I Get Scammed in Bangladesh? (not long)470K views · May 11, 20260.6× typical views
• An Alcoholic's Guide to Drinking in Tokyo (relapse edition)736K views · Apr 11, 20261× typical views

The Travel & Outdoors niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 2.8K videos from 571 channels in this niche. 13.1% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 22K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: France 3 Bretagne (141K subs, best video 82.9×), Ngoc Linh (330K subs, best video 39.6×), kohstan kal (5.1K subs, best video 183.4×), LazyWave (114K subs, best video 93.7×), Greenbrier Bushcraft (41K subs, best video 87.3×), Tania💕Mum of 4 (15K subs, best video 29.1×).

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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 Small Brained American or YouTube.