The Painful Historian YouTube Stats

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

The Painful Historian channel overview

The Painful Historian (@thepainfulhistorian) is a YouTube channel in the Film, TV & Anime niche created in 2025. It has 56K subscribers and 14M total views across 144 videos, an average of 99K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 110K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 58K views. Over the last 12 months, The Painful Historian published 15 videos, and 4 of them (27%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does The Painful Historian make?

Returbe estimates The Painful Historian's YouTube ad revenue at $215 – $1K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.75 to $3.5, typically $1.75, 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 $1.8K.

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Upload schedule

The Painful Historian publishes about 3.3 videos a month. Based on its last 15 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (33% of uploads), usually around 15:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 24, 2026.

The Painful Historian's best outlier videos

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

• How Every Chinese Hero Died356K views · Sep 5, 20266.2× typical views
• How Every Chinese Dynasty Fell288K views · Sep 26, 20265× typical views
• How Every Indian Hero Died273K views · Sep 18, 20264.7× typical views
• How Every Major Indian Empire Collapsed206K views · Oct 5, 20263.6× typical views
• How Every British Royal Dynasty Fell139K views · Oct 24, 20262.4× typical views
• How Every Legendary Pharaoh Died91K views · Oct 10, 20261.6× typical views
• How Histories Greatest Warriors Died75K views · Sep 7, 20261.3× typical views
• How Every Hero Died From Each Time Period58K views · Oct 1, 20261× typical views

Latest videos

6 of The Painful Historian's last 15 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• How Every British Royal Dynasty Fell139K views · Oct 24, 20262.4× typical views
• How Every Major Persian Dynasty Fell39K views · Oct 14, 20260.7× typical views
• How Every Legendary Pharaoh Died91K views · Oct 10, 20261.6× typical views
• How Every Major Indian Empire Collapsed206K views · Oct 5, 20263.6× typical views
• How Every Hero Died From Each Time Period58K views · Oct 1, 20261× typical views
• How Every Chinese Dynasty Fell288K views · Sep 26, 20265× typical views
• The Most Overrated Warriors in History31K views · Sep 23, 20260.5× typical views
• How Every Legendary Assassin Died6.7K views · Sep 21, 20260.1× typical views
• How Every Indian Hero Died273K views · Sep 18, 20264.7× typical views
• How Every Japanese Hero Died37K views · Sep 14, 20260.6× typical views

The Film, TV & Anime niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 21K videos from 1.6K channels in this niche. 15.8% 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: Memelogyz (133K subs, best video 191.2×), 泡芙剧场PuffDrama (108K subs, best video 67.2×), 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 The Painful Historian or YouTube.