Star Wars Explained YouTube Stats

@starwarsexplained · Film, TV & Anime · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Star Wars Explained channel overview

Star Wars Explained (@starwarsexplained) is a YouTube channel in the Film, TV & Anime niche created in 2014. It has 838K subscribers and 352M total views across 5.5K videos, an average of 64K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 15K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 33K views. Over the last 12 months, Star Wars Explained published 68 videos (76% Shorts), and 5 of them (7%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Star Wars Explained gained 0 subscribers and 897K views, about 53K views a day.

How much does Star Wars Explained make?

Returbe estimates Star Wars Explained's YouTube ad revenue at $800 – $3.7K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.57 to $2.66, typically $1.33, 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 $1.3K.

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

Star Wars Explained publishes about 38 videos a month. Based on its last 67 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (21% of uploads), usually around 13:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Star Wars Explained's best outlier videos

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

• What is the Red Jammer Y-Wing?98K views · Sep 27, 20268.5× typical views
• Did the New Republic kill all the Hutts?62K views · Sep 28, 20265.3× typical views
• Who were the Amani people in The Mandalorian and Grogu?45K views · Sep 23, 20263.9× typical views
• Does Grogu's species build those huts naturally?36K views · Sep 26, 20263.1× typical views
• Who is Warwick Davis’s character in Solo?35K views · Oct 19, 20263× typical views
• Watto - Star Wars Glup Shittos Explained Fast34K views · Oct 4, 20262.9× typical views
• Star Wars: Galactic Racer Is Unlike Anything I've Ever Played84K views · Oct 2, 20262.5× typical views
• Who was Embo in The Mandalorian and Grogu?29K views · Sep 21, 20262.5× typical views

Latest videos

2 of Star Wars Explained's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Salacious Crumb - Star Wars Glup Shittos Explained Fast818 views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• How did Chewbacca wind up on Mimban?6K views · Nov 5, 20260.5× typical views
• Onaconda Farr - Star Wars Glup Shittos Explained Fast6.3K views · Nov 4, 20260.5× typical views
• Who was the dianoga in the Death Star?7.5K views · Nov 3, 20260.6× typical views
• Everything Awesome About Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu23K views · Nov 2, 20260.7× typical views
• Zuckuss & 4-LOM - Star Wars Glup Shittos Explained Fast8.4K views · Nov 2, 20260.7× typical views
• Gardulla the Hutt - Star Wars Glup Shittos Explained Fast13K views · Nov 1, 20261.1× typical views
• Finis Valorum - Star Wars Glup Shittos Explained Fast13K views · Nov 1, 20261.1× typical views
• Have We Had Enough Darth Vader Stories - Last Week In Star Wars20K views · Oct 31, 20260.6× typical views
• Abednedos - Star Wars Aliens Explained Fast7.6K views · Oct 31, 20260.7× typical views

The Film, TV & Anime niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 20K videos from 1.6K channels in this niche. 15.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 14K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $1.5 to $7.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: 泡芙剧场PuffDrama (108K subs, best video 69.1×), Memelogyz (133K subs, best video 191.2×), Le Mec (205K subs, best video 132.1×), HSN Explains (24K subs, best video 71.3×), CrispyTheory (86K subs, best video 689.5×), Swagger Exposed Shorts (133K subs, best video 93.4×).

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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 Star Wars Explained or YouTube.