Thinker YouTube Stats

@thinkeryt · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Thinker channel overview

Thinker (@thinkeryt) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2015. It has 341K subscribers and 22M total views across 39 videos, an average of 575K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 733K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 574K views. Over the last 12 months, Thinker published 3 videos, and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 18 days, Thinker gained 0 subscribers and 54K views, about 3K views a day.

How much does Thinker make?

Returbe estimates Thinker's YouTube ad revenue at $274 – $912 per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 to $10, typically $5.5, 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 $5.5K.

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Upload schedule

Based on its last 39 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (31% of uploads), usually around 00:00 UTC. The last video went out on Sep 3, 2026.

Thinker's best outlier videos

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

• How Hackers Stole $1.000.000.000 From Banks (Carbanak) Documentary4.3M views · Jun 3, 20217.5× typical views
• Hunting The Dark Webs Biggest Villain4M views · Aug 20, 20247× typical views
• Hunting A $300,000,000 Dark Web Drug Dealer1.2M views · Apr 10, 20251× typical views
• How North Korean Spies Infiltrated the US82K views · Oct 27, 20241× typical views
• The First Cyber Bank Heist In History1.3M views · Oct 22, 20241× typical views
• Gary Mckinnon: The Hacker Who Found UFOs923K views · Jun 11, 20241× typical views
• Hunting the $477,000,000 FTX Hacker1.6M views · Feb 18, 20251× typical views
• Hunting A Dark Web Insider Trader1.2M views · Jun 24, 20251× typical views

Latest videos

2 of Thinker's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Truth About Spain's Migrant Crisis23K views · Sep 3, 2026
• The Hunt For America's Most Wanted Hacker44K views · Jul 9, 2026
• The $500 Million Dark Web Scammer98K views · Jan 29, 2026
• How 75 Cents Exposed a Russian Spy Operation624K views · Sep 2, 20251× typical views
• Hunting A Dark Web Insider Trader1.2M views · Jun 24, 20251× typical views
• Hunting A $300,000,000 Dark Web Drug Dealer1.2M views · Apr 10, 20251× typical views
• Hunting the $477,000,000 FTX Hacker1.6M views · Feb 18, 20251× typical views
• How North Korean Spies Infiltrated the US82K views · Oct 27, 20241× typical views
• The First Cyber Bank Heist In History1.3M views · Oct 22, 20241× typical views
• Hunting The Dark Webs Biggest Villain4M views · Aug 20, 20247× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.7K videos from 577 channels in this niche. 14% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 13K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 281.1×), Military Exposed Shorts (141K subs, best video 54.5×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 28.3×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 61.8×), Military History Talks (45K subs, best video 25.8×), James Sullivan (7K subs, best video 10.2×).

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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 Thinker or YouTube.