Squintist YouTube Stats

@squintist · Tech & AI · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Squintist channel overview

Squintist (@squintist) is a YouTube channel in the Tech & AI niche created in 2024. It has 13K subscribers and 811K total views across 38 videos, an average of 21K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 17K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 8.1K views. Over the last 12 months, Squintist published 39 videos (3% Shorts), and 6 of them (15%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 18 days, Squintist gained 400 subscribers and 77K views, about 4.3K views a day.

How much does Squintist make?

Returbe estimates Squintist's YouTube ad revenue at $650 – $2.6K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.99 to $15.97, typically $7.99, 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 $8K.

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Upload schedule

Squintist publishes about 6.5 videos a month. Based on its last 39 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (23% of uploads), usually around 21:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Squintist's best outlier videos

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

• Claude Now Watermarks Its Text. How Do You Even Do That?190K views · Aug 13, 202623.3× typical views
• Why Everyone Is Quietly Quitting OpenClaw150K views · Apr 23, 202618.4× typical views
• How DeepSeek V4 fits on a laptop and what does it mean to us?98K views · May 17, 202612.1× typical views
• DeepSeek's Invisible Founder Just Talked for 4 Hours. It Leaked.77K views · Jul 31, 20269.5× typical views
• DeepSeek Just Showed Everyone How to Make 80% Margins on AI (DeepInfer)58K views · Oct 24, 20267.1× typical views
• Why Prompt Injection Could Be Everywhere. (Even Here)32K views · May 20, 20263.9× typical views
• Claude's system prompt is 17,000 words. Here's why.17K views · Apr 24, 20262.1× typical views
• Mixture of Experts: The AI Trick Eating the World's Memory13K views · Jun 30, 20261.6× typical views

Latest videos

5 of Squintist's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Yann LeCun's JEPA Just Proved Bigger Al Isn't the Answer?7K views · Nov 5, 20260.9× typical views
• DeepSeek's Super Agent is More than just Claude Code Rival8.7K views · Nov 4, 20261.1× typical views
• I Made a Board Game About the AI Race849 views · Oct 31, 20260.1× typical views
• DeepSeek Just Showed Everyone How to Make 80% Margins on AI (DeepInfer)58K views · Oct 24, 20267.1× typical views
• How Did a ByteDance Intern Go From Sued for Sabotage to Funded?1.6K views · Oct 20, 20260.2× typical views
• AI Chips Are Getting Weird. Here's Why.8.3K views · Oct 14, 20261× typical views
• Why AMD Paid $8.2 Billion for Fei-Fei Li's 2-Year-Old World Labs849 views · Oct 9, 20260.1× typical views
• What Go Players Can Teach Programmers About AI8K views · Oct 3, 20261× typical views
• How Post-Training Turned Chatbots Into Agents10K views · Sep 29, 20261.2× typical views
• Anthropic Published 154 Pages of People Abusing Claude9.2K views · Sep 25, 20261.1× typical views

The Tech & AI niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 10K videos from 905 channels in this niche. 11.5% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 9.5K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $4 to $16.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Memes Land (89K subs, best video 172.7×), Fun_Games (69K subs, best video 303.2×), Sprunki Land (39K subs, best video 95.2×), Tech Meets East (21K subs, best video 10.1×), Fun Universe (57K subs, best video 98.3×), MR Mocha White (16K subs, best video 131.3×).

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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 Squintist or YouTube.