Thoughty2 YouTube Stats

@thoughty2 · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Thoughty2 channel overview

Thoughty2 (@thoughty2) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2012. It has 5.7M subscribers and 1.2B total views across 1K videos, an average of 1.2M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 617K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 602K views. Over the last 12 months, Thoughty2 published 30 videos (43% Shorts), and 3 of them (10%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Thoughty2 make?

Returbe estimates Thoughty2's YouTube ad revenue at $845 – $2.8K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.74 to $9.14, typically $5.03, 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 $5K.

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Upload schedule

Thoughty2 publishes about 2.2 videos a month. Based on its last 43 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (56% of uploads), usually around 02:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Thoughty2's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Thoughty2's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Astronomers Can’t Explain This Moon Mystery982K views · Sep 9, 202610.8× typical views
• The Wildest Martial Arts Hoax of All Time927K views · Sep 4, 202610.2× typical views
• Something Was Very Wrong With the Inca2.9M views · Jun 10, 20264.8× typical views
• They Survived 15 Years on This Island225K views · Sep 23, 20262.5× typical views
• Blue Whales Shouldn't Exist. So Why Do They?1.4M views · Dec 12, 20252.3× typical views
• Scientists Found Evidence Of The Biggest Event In Earth's History1.4M views · Dec 12, 20252.3× typical views
• Inside The Most Cursed 47 Miles on Planet Earth1.4M views · Aug 9, 20262.3× typical views
• The Panama Canal Should Not Be Possible1.3M views · Oct 8, 20262.2× typical views

Latest videos

12 of Thoughty2's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Mad Story Behind the Author of Little Women5.7K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• What Happened When This Cult Ate Nothing But Fruit?570K views · Oct 24, 20260.9× typical views
• The Panama Canal Should Not Be Possible1.3M views · Oct 8, 20262.2× typical views
• The $40 Million Mosquito Problem68K views · Sep 30, 20260.7× typical views
• Why Two Sleeps Might Be Better Than One114K views · Sep 25, 20261.3× typical views
• They Survived 15 Years on This Island225K views · Sep 23, 20262.5× typical views
• The Submarine That Became a Nuclear Bomb176K views · Sep 18, 20261.9× typical views
• Meet Earth’s Biggest Crocodiles29K views · Sep 16, 20260.3× typical views
• The World's Largest Waterfall Is Actually Underwater172K views · Sep 11, 20261.9× typical views
• Astronomers Can’t Explain This Moon Mystery982K views · Sep 9, 202610.8× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.7K videos from 578 channels in this niche. 13.9% 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 Thoughty2 or YouTube.