Smart Nonsense YouTube Stats

@smartnonsense · Science & Education · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Smart Nonsense channel overview

Smart Nonsense (@smartnonsense) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2011. It has 3.5M subscribers and 2.7B total views across 870 videos, an average of 3.2M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 209K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 3.2M views. Over the last 12 months, Smart Nonsense published 60 videos (100% Shorts), and 19 of them (32%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Smart Nonsense gained 0 subscribers and 5.5M views, about 321K views a day.

How much does Smart Nonsense make?

Returbe estimates Smart Nonsense's YouTube ad revenue at $240 – $800 per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.03 to $0.1, typically $0.06, 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 $60.

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Upload schedule

Smart Nonsense publishes about 22.8 videos a month. Based on its last 61 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (21% of uploads), usually around 14:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Smart Nonsense's best outlier videos

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

• How the NFL's magic yellow line works..2.5M views · Sep 4, 202625× typical views
• How elevators know which floor to STOP on..2.3M views · Sep 10, 202623.4× typical views
• This machine can see an ATOM..1.4M views · Aug 13, 202614.2× typical views
• The CRAZIEST measurement humans ever made..1.2M views · Aug 11, 202612.5× typical views
• How Ozempic makes you LOSE weight..1.2M views · Oct 2, 202611.8× typical views
• This surgery can SAVE your vision..947K views · Aug 28, 20269.5× typical views
• The FASTEST object we’ve sent to space..881K views · Oct 27, 20268.8× typical views
• The SCIENCE of anesthesia..840K views · Sep 16, 20268.4× typical views

Latest videos

9 of Smart Nonsense's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The BEST Job in the World..1.5K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• The World’s STRONGEST Magnet..38K views · Nov 5, 20260.4× typical views
• The ACCIDENTAL Invention of Twitter..21K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• How Planes Survive LIGHTNING..48K views · Nov 3, 20260.5× typical views
• The STRONGEST Animal on Earth..44K views · Nov 2, 20260.4× typical views
• This Telescope Is BURIED Under Antarctic Ice..34K views · Oct 30, 20260.3× typical views
• This freezes EVERYTHING it touches..63K views · Oct 29, 20260.6× typical views
• The Crazy Science BENEATH Ice Rinks..64K views · Oct 28, 20260.6× typical views
• The FASTEST object we’ve sent to space..881K views · Oct 27, 20268.8× typical views
• This thing SMASHES particles together..38K views · Oct 26, 20260.4× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 2.2K videos from 323 channels in this niche. 10.8% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 8.9K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3.5 to $12.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Wonderism HQ (51K subs, best video 400.5×), ClipPodcast (29K subs, best video 23.1×), Past the Blue (34K subs, best video 16.9×), The Scale Room (1.3K subs, best video 281×), The Why Side (47K subs, best video 194.4×), MrCappuccino Shorts (293K subs, best video 70.5×).

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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 Smart Nonsense or YouTube.