Virtual Carbon YouTube Stats

@virtualcarbon · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Virtual Carbon channel overview

Virtual Carbon (@virtualcarbon) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2014. It has 259K subscribers and 20M total views across 45 videos, an average of 448K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 591K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 440K views. Over the last 12 months, Virtual Carbon published 7 videos, and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, Virtual Carbon gained 2K subscribers and 831K views, about 42K views a day.

How much does Virtual Carbon make?

Returbe estimates Virtual Carbon's YouTube ad revenue at $2.5K – $7.4K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 to $9, typically $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 $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

Virtual Carbon publishes about 1.1 videos a month. Based on its last 43 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (23% of uploads), usually around 19:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 16, 2026.

Virtual Carbon's best outlier videos

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

• Disturbing Internet Rabbit Holes972K views · Jan 13, 20242.3× typical views
• The Strangest Internet Rabbit Holes898K views · Sep 10, 20232.1× typical views
• Video Games With Dying Worlds [Vol. 4]757K views · Aug 30, 20261.7× typical views
• Video Games With Dying Worlds [Vol. 3]650K views · Dec 29, 20251.5× typical views
• The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes547K views · Oct 15, 20251.3× typical views
• A Video Game Rabbit Hole533K views · Apr 28, 20261.2× typical views
• Unsettling Internet Rabbit Holes474K views · Oct 16, 20241.1× typical views
• Horrors Of The Woods440K views · Oct 16, 20261× typical views

Latest videos

4 of Virtual Carbon's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Horrors Of The Woods440K views · Oct 16, 20261× typical views
• Video Games With Dying Worlds [Vol. 4]757K views · Aug 30, 20261.7× typical views
• The Darkest Internet Discoveries224K views · Jul 22, 20260.5× typical views
• Disturbing Internet Mysteries394K views · Jun 9, 20260.9× typical views
• A Video Game Rabbit Hole533K views · Apr 28, 20261.2× typical views
• The Darkest Things Caught On Camera289K views · Mar 12, 20260.7× typical views
• Video Games With Dying Worlds [Vol. 3]650K views · Dec 29, 20251.5× typical views
• The Darkest Internet Rabbit Holes547K views · Oct 15, 20251.3× typical views
• The Darkest Art Ever Made171K views · Sep 5, 20251× typical views
• Europe's Strangest Unsolved Mystery459K views · Jul 18, 20251× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.2K videos from 506 channels in this niche. 8.3% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 20K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Crime 360 (241K subs, best video 15×), Criminally Obsessed (247K subs, best video 36.9×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.3×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (399K subs, best video 8.8×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 39.3×), Crazy planet (31K subs, best video 58.2×).

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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 Virtual Carbon or YouTube.