The Serf Times YouTube Stats

@theserftimes · News & Politics · Updated Nov 6, 2026

The Serf Times channel overview

The Serf Times (@theserftimes) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2019. It has 118K subscribers and 49M total views across 4.2K videos, an average of 12K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 37K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 38K views. Over the last 12 months, The Serf Times published 73 videos (19% Shorts), and 3 of them (4%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 13 days, The Serf Times gained 1K subscribers and 812K views, about 62K views a day.

How much does The Serf Times make?

Returbe estimates The Serf Times's YouTube ad revenue at $3.5K – $14K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.85 to $7.41, typically $3.71, 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 $3.7K.

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 Serf Times publishes about 43.4 videos a month. Based on its last 67 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (19% of uploads), usually around 14:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

The Serf Times's best outlier videos

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

• Shocking footage of H3H3 about to reveal everything?60K views · Oct 27, 20266.4× typical views
• Joe Rogan and Tony Hinchcliffe get NUKED FROM ORBIT by Elephant Graveyard187K views · Sep 13, 20264.9× typical views
• Shane Gillis completely bombs SNL opening monologue39K views · Oct 13, 20264.2× typical views
• Tim Heidecker breaks Joe Rogan and Alex Jones brains111K views · Oct 7, 20262.9× typical views
• The Ethan Klein Files have dropped98K views · Oct 29, 20262.6× typical views
• Tony Hinchcliffe can't recover from Elephant Graveyard96K views · Oct 15, 20262.5× typical views
• J. J. McCullough DELETES youtube video82K views · Sep 22, 20262.2× typical views
• Ethan Klein affair SOMEHOW GETS WORSE73K views · Oct 28, 20261.9× typical views

Latest videos

7 of The Serf Times's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Russell Brand found guilty (despite magical amulet)3.9K views · Nov 6, 20260.4× typical views
• Why Asmongold and Matt Walsh are collapsing in free fall41K views · Nov 5, 20261.1× typical views
• Asmongold total and complete collapse12K views · Nov 5, 20261.3× typical views
• Ethan Klein DIVORCE has dropped33K views · Nov 4, 20260.9× typical views
• You Can See Everything 21.3K views · Nov 3, 20260.1× typical views
• You Can See Everything 2: Haley Stevens Boogaloo10K views · Nov 3, 20260.3× typical views
• H3H3's AB Starkilla SPEAKS OUT50K views · Nov 2, 20261.3× typical views
• Rogan, Kurt Metzger and Duncan Trussell defend WAR CRIMES32K views · Nov 1, 20260.9× typical views
• Stravros DEFENDS Shane Gillis17K views · Oct 31, 20260.5× typical views
• Can the H3H3 podcast ever return?51K views · Oct 30, 20261.3× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 54K videos from 812 channels in this niche. 17.6% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 15K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2 to $8.

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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 Serf Times or YouTube.