Something Sinister YouTube Stats

@something_sinister · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Something Sinister channel overview

Something Sinister (@something_sinister) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2017. It has 281K subscribers and 26M total views across 181 videos, an average of 143K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 360K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 311K views. Over the last 12 months, Something Sinister published 33 videos, and 1 of them (3%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, Something Sinister gained 11K subscribers and 2.2M views, about 112K views a day.

How much does Something Sinister make?

Returbe estimates Something Sinister's YouTube ad revenue at $11K – $34K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 to $9, typically $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 $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

Something Sinister publishes about 2.2 videos a month. Based on its last 50 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (42% of uploads), usually around 17:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 30, 2026.

Something Sinister's best outlier videos

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

• Exposing an Internet Cult Leader1.2M views · Oct 27, 20254.2× typical views
• Horrors in Adult Entertainment1M views · Jun 12, 20263.3× typical views
• Horrors in the Porn Industry886K views · Oct 9, 20262.8× typical views
• Why Ebola is so Terrifying809K views · May 28, 20262.6× typical views
• Horrors in the Epstein Files580K views · Mar 1, 20261.9× typical views
• The Horrors of Hantavirus529K views · May 15, 20261.7× typical views
• Forgotten Horrors on Vine512K views · Mar 13, 20261.6× typical views
• Viral Internet Horrors502K views · Jul 10, 20261.6× typical views

Latest videos

8 of Something Sinister's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Disturbing Digital Footprints264K views · Oct 30, 20260.8× typical views
• Craigslist's Darkest Corners327K views · Oct 16, 20261× typical views
• Horrors in the Porn Industry886K views · Oct 9, 20262.8× typical views
• Horrors From Around the Internet319K views · Sep 25, 20261× typical views
• Forgotten 9/11 Horrors235K views · Sep 15, 20260.8× typical views
• Horrors Recorded on Flock Cameras99K views · Sep 11, 20260.3× typical views
• Reddit's Child Trafficking Rabbit Hole165K views · Aug 28, 20260.5× typical views
• Disturbing Unsolved Mysteries160K views · Aug 14, 20260.5× typical views
• The Deepest Government Rabbit Hole81K views · Aug 7, 20260.3× typical views
• A Disturbing Internet Rabbit Hole441K views · Jul 31, 20261.4× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.2K videos from 506 channels in this niche. 8.3% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 20K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Crime 360 (241K subs, best video 15×), Criminally Obsessed (247K subs, best video 36.9×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.3×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (399K subs, best video 8.8×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 39.3×), Crazy planet (31K subs, best video 58.2×).

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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 Something Sinister or YouTube.