The Paint Explainer YouTube Stats

@thepaintexplainer · Science & Education · Updated Nov 6, 2026

The Paint Explainer channel overview

The Paint Explainer (@thepaintexplainer) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2023. It has 2M subscribers and 327M total views across 171 videos, an average of 1.9M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 896K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 491K views. Over the last 12 months, The Paint Explainer published 50 videos, and 14 of them (28%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, The Paint Explainer gained 10K subscribers and 4.3M views, about 213K views a day.

How much does The Paint Explainer make?

Returbe estimates The Paint Explainer's YouTube ad revenue at $22K – $76K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.5 to $12, typically $6.5, 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 $6.5K.

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 Paint Explainer publishes about 4.3 videos a month. Based on its last 53 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (28% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 3, 2026.

The Paint Explainer's best outlier videos

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

• The Creepiest Internet Mysteries That Were Finally Solved6.2M views · Oct 29, 202511× typical views
• The Most Disturbing Scientific Anomalies We Can’t Find An Explanation For (Pt. 2)5M views · Apr 15, 202610.1× typical views
• The Most Disturbing Planets Ever Found3.9M views · Feb 5, 20267.9× typical views
• Every Major US War Crime, in 20 Minutes3.7M views · Nov 9, 20257.6× typical views
• Every Major US War Crime, in 20 Minutes3.5M views · Jan 2, 20267.1× typical views
• The Worst Jail Deaths Ever3.1M views · Nov 5, 20256.3× typical views
• The Most Disturbing Scientific Anomalies We Can’t Find An Explanation For2.8M views · Jan 10, 20265.6× typical views
• The Creepiest Internet Mysteries That Were Finally Solved (Pt. 2)2.8M views · Dec 8, 20255.6× typical views

Latest videos

12 of The Paint Explainer's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Would the Great White Shark Dominate Every Prehistoric Ocean?128K views · Nov 3, 20260.3× typical views
• The Worst Ways People Got Trapped67K views · Oct 27, 20260.1× typical views
• The Most Insane Engineering Projects That Almost Happened170K views · Oct 20, 20260.3× typical views
• Ancient Myths That Turned Out to Be True386K views · Oct 14, 20260.8× typical views
• The Most Guarded Places on Earth You Can't Visit (Pt. 3)205K views · Oct 7, 20260.4× typical views
• The Most Guarded Places on Earth You Can't Visit (Pt. 2)801K views · Sep 30, 20261.6× typical views
• The Craziest Ancient Folklore That Turned Out to be True795K views · Sep 15, 20261.6× typical views
• The Most Guarded Places on Earth You Can’t Visit2.4M views · Sep 8, 20264.9× typical views
• Every Extinct Animal That’s Returning323K views · Aug 30, 20260.7× typical views
• Ancient Greek Myths That Turned Out to Be True (Pt. 2)375K views · Aug 23, 20260.8× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 2.4K videos from 352 channels in this niche. 10.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 9.7K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3.5 to $12.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Wonderism HQ (51K subs, best video 400.5×), ClipPodcast (29K subs, best video 25×), The Scale Room (1.3K subs, best video 288.8×), Past the Blue (34K subs, best video 16.9×), The Why Side (47K subs, best video 194×), Disasters Explained (28K subs, best video 78.6×).

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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 Paint Explainer or YouTube.