Sonya Lwu YouTube Stats

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

Sonya Lwu channel overview

Sonya Lwu (@sonyalwu) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2018. It has 371K subscribers and 60M total views across 378 videos, an average of 158K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 109K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 118K views. Over the last 12 months, Sonya Lwu published 35 videos (6% Shorts), and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Sonya Lwu make?

Returbe estimates Sonya Lwu's YouTube ad revenue at $667 – $2K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.77 to $5.32, typically $2.96, 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 $3K.

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Upload schedule

Sonya Lwu publishes about 3.3 videos a month. Based on its last 50 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (88% of uploads), usually around 15:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 31, 2026.

Sonya Lwu's best outlier videos

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

• MARY BELL : la TUEUSE sadique de 11 ANS qui a choqué l’Angleterre222K views · Sep 5, 20261.9× typical views
• La BÊTE de JERSEY : l’ÎLE habitée par des MONSTRES166K views · Apr 18, 20261.4× typical views
• LORRAINE THORPE : l’adolescente qui a TORTURÉ et TUÉ ses PROCHES160K views · Sep 19, 20261.4× typical views
• Le COUPLE de l’HORREUR : Gerald & Charlene GALLEGO156K views · Jul 4, 20261.3× typical views
• Le MEURTRE de CYNTHIA HOFFMAN : amitié, catfish et trahison154K views · Sep 12, 20261.3× typical views
• WADE WILSON : le tueur “BAD-BOY” qui a déchaîné les PASSIONS151K views · Feb 14, 20261.3× typical views
• DENISE HUSKINS : la vraie “GONE GIRL” ?140K views · Mar 7, 20261.2× typical views
• LUCA PISCIOTTO : star de TikTok, tué par son beau-père138K views · Jan 24, 20261.2× typical views

Latest videos

1 of Sonya Lwu's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Les MEURTRES de TEXARKANA : une ville sombre dans la PANIQUE100K views · Oct 31, 20260.9× typical views
• ALEX MENGEL : il portait la PEAU de ses VICTIMES ?117K views · Oct 24, 20261× typical views
• JONATHAN COULOM : victime d’un TUEUR en série MASQUÉ ?129K views · Oct 10, 20261.1× typical views
• DISCUSSION sur le 1er MOIS THÉMATIQUE, ça dévie beaucoup...⎮Rediffusion Twitch39K views · Oct 3, 20260.3× typical views
• Le meurtre d'AGNÈS MARIN : un DRAME évitable127K views · Sep 26, 20261.1× typical views
• LORRAINE THORPE : l’adolescente qui a TORTURÉ et TUÉ ses PROCHES160K views · Sep 19, 20261.4× typical views
• Le MEURTRE de CYNTHIA HOFFMAN : amitié, catfish et trahison154K views · Sep 12, 20261.3× typical views
• MARY BELL : la TUEUSE sadique de 11 ANS qui a choqué l’Angleterre222K views · Sep 5, 20261.9× typical views
• Le meurtre de CATHERINE BURGOD : l'affaire THOMASSIN / DIALLO84K views · Jul 12, 20260.7× typical views
• Le COUPLE de l’HORREUR : Gerald & Charlene GALLEGO156K views · Jul 4, 20261.3× 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 Sonya Lwu or YouTube.