The Hacker Academy YouTube Stats

@the-hacker-academy · Tech & AI · Updated Nov 6, 2026

The Hacker Academy channel overview

The Hacker Academy (@the-hacker-academy) is a YouTube channel in the Tech & AI niche created in 2023. It has 237K subscribers and 12M total views across 228 videos, an average of 51K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 75K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 17K views. Over the last 12 months, The Hacker Academy published 44 videos, and 10 of them (23%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, The Hacker Academy gained 3K subscribers and 285K views, about 17K views a day.

How much does The Hacker Academy make?

Returbe estimates The Hacker Academy's YouTube ad revenue at $2.1K – $8.3K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $4 to $16, typically $8, 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.

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

The Hacker Academy publishes about 2.2 videos a month. Based on its last 51 uploads, its most common upload day is Sunday (33% of uploads), usually around 00:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 18, 2026.

The Hacker Academy's best outlier videos

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

• How To Learn Hacking - A Practical Demo954K views · May 24, 202655.5× typical views
• How The FBI Finds Anyone Online | OSINT Tools361K views · May 3, 202621× typical views
• How Hackers Hack Wi-Fi In Seconds317K views · Jan 29, 202618.4× typical views
• How The FBI Finds Your REAL IP Address298K views · Jun 14, 202617.3× typical views
• How The FBI Finds Your DELETED Files244K views · May 20, 202614.2× typical views
• Every Level Of Hacking Explained in 8 Minutes690K views · Jun 24, 202513.9× typical views
• basics of HACKING In 8 Minutes615K views · Sep 7, 202412.4× typical views
• I Tried 500+ Hacking Tools, These 13 Should Be ILLEGAL185K views · Jun 16, 202610.7× typical views

Latest videos

11 of The Hacker Academy's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Can I Hack This Website in 4 Minutes?21K views · Oct 18, 20261.2× typical views
• How To Learn Website Hacking — Practical Demo15K views · Oct 15, 20260.9× typical views
• Everyone Learns These In The Wrong Order22K views · Oct 3, 20261.3× typical views
• Give me 16 minutes and i'll teach you 90% of Linux116K views · Sep 7, 20266.7× typical views
• Every Hacker Operating System Explained36K views · Sep 6, 20262.1× typical views
• How To Learn Hacking (Don't Make This Mistake)5.6K views · Aug 18, 20260.3× typical views
• How To Learn Website Hacking - Live Demo17K views · Aug 6, 20261× typical views
• Every Hacking Skill Explained In 12 Minutes28K views · Jul 29, 20261.6× typical views
• The Tool Hackers Use To Find Every Camera In A City15K views · Jul 26, 20260.9× typical views
• How The FBI Finds Your Crypto Wallet3.8K views · Jul 21, 20260.2× typical views

The Tech & AI niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 8.7K videos from 717 channels in this niche. 11.3% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 7.2K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $4 to $16.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Memes Land (88K subs, best video 177.6×), Fun_Games (69K subs, best video 303.1×), Sprunki Land (36K subs, best video 85.2×), MR Mocha White (16K subs, best video 128.9×), Fun Games (74K subs, best video 257×), Fun Universe (56K subs, best video 96.1×).

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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 The Hacker Academy or YouTube.