The Hidden Lens YouTube Stats

@thehiddenlens-v · Cars & Vehicles · Updated Nov 13, 2026

The Hidden Lens channel overview

The Hidden Lens (@thehiddenlens-v) is a YouTube channel in the Cars & Vehicles niche created in 2025. It has 17K subscribers and 3.2M total views across 95 videos, an average of 34K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 5.3K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 4.1K views. Over the last 12 months, The Hidden Lens published 17 videos, and 3 of them (18%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does The Hidden Lens make?

Returbe estimates The Hidden Lens's YouTube ad revenue at $1.6K – $5.6K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $4 to $14, typically $7, 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 $7K.

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 Hidden Lens publishes about 18.5 videos a month. Based on its last 17 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (35% of uploads), usually around 23:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 12, 2026.

The Hidden Lens's best outlier videos

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

• The Gross Reality of Amelia Earhart's Cockpit - It's WORSE Than You Think!16K views · Oct 27, 20263.8× typical views
• Bonnie and Clyde: The Gross Reality of Clyde's Chopped-Off Toes13K views · Oct 18, 20263.3× typical views
• Bonnie and Clyde: The Rifle Frank Hamer Had Specially Modified For Bonnie and Clyde13K views · Oct 27, 20263.2× typical views
• Bonnie and Clyde: Bonnie Couldn’t Walk So W.D. Jones Carried Her Piggyback During a Shootout8.6K views · Oct 20, 20262.1× typical views
• The Gross Reality of Harry Houdini's River Escapes: It's WORSE Than You Think!8.4K views · Oct 29, 20262.1× typical views
• Bonnie and Clyde: The Reporter Who Faked His Own Kidnapping for an Interview5.3K views · Oct 27, 20261.3× typical views
• Bonnie and Clyde: The Phantom Evidence of the Grapevine Shootout - Not What You Thought4.9K views · Nov 5, 20261.2× typical views
• Bonnie and Clyde's LAST Passenger's Surprising Revelations In The Death Car4.1K views · Nov 5, 20261× typical views

Latest videos

5 of The Hidden Lens's last 17 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• 7 Brutal Lessons from Frontier Arrow Wounds That are Far Worse Than You Think904 views · Nov 12, 20260.2× typical views
• Bonnie and Clyde Were Helped by Public Enemy #1 To Be Able To Keep Running2.6K views · Nov 11, 20260.6× typical views
• The Gross Reality Civil War Camps - it's WORSE Than You Think!758 views · Nov 10, 20260.2× typical views
• Bonnie & Clyde's Mechanic: How W.D. Jones Hotwired the Stolen Cars2.9K views · Nov 9, 20260.7× typical views
• The Gross Reality of Civil War Hospitals - This WAS NOT like Hollywood!1.2K views · Nov 8, 20260.3× typical views
• The Newton Gang: Their Biggest Regret is NOT What You Would Think!2.3K views · Nov 7, 20260.6× typical views
• Bonnie and Clyde: The REAL Reason Texas Sent Their Mothers to Prison2.6K views · Nov 6, 20260.6× typical views
• Bonnie and Clyde: The Phantom Evidence of the Grapevine Shootout - Not What You Thought4.9K views · Nov 5, 20261.2× typical views
• Bonnie and Clyde's LAST Passenger's Surprising Revelations In The Death Car4.1K views · Nov 5, 20261× typical views
• The Smelly Reality of Annie Oakley & Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show - WHAT NOBODY TELLS YOU!2K views · Nov 3, 20260.5× typical views

The Cars & Vehicles niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 10K videos from 1.2K channels in this niche. 17.1% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 16K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $4 to $14.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: By Any Memes (2.3K subs, best video 1116.8×), Hauptsache Wissen (163K subs, best video 39.1×), Drivewhisperer (125K subs, best video 130.5×), Petroleum (38K subs, best video 787×), GHOSTFACE WORKSHOP (26K subs, best video 196×), CarHax Shorts (367K subs, best video 109.4×).

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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 The Hidden Lens or YouTube.