curious YouTube Stats

@whycuriosity · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 6, 2026

curious channel overview

curious (@whycuriosity) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2021. It has 1.8K subscribers and 340K total views across 27 videos, an average of 13K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 5.1K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 12K views. Over the last 12 months, curious published 4 videos (100% Shorts), and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, curious gained 10 subscribers and 3.6K views, about 210 views a day.

How much does curious make?

Returbe estimates curious's YouTube ad revenue at $12 – $40 per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.56 to $8.53, typically $4.69, 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 $4.7K.

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Upload schedule

Based on its last 16 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (31% of uploads), usually around 08:00 UTC. The last video went out on May 14, 2026.

curious's best outlier videos

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

• The Great Hack | Full Documentary69K views · Oct 6, 20225.5× typical views
• Osho: I love to disturb people1.1K views · Feb 5, 20251× typical views
• DOCUMENTARY: Why and How IBM ended up creating the PC | IBM the leading tech company40 views · Oct 21, 20241× typical views
• Osho on Education System872 views · Oct 18, 20241× typical views
• Documentary of Benjamin Netanyahu | Israel president who don't hesitate14 views · Oct 18, 20241× typical views
• Documentary on Psychedelics | Drugs change the mind and mind change the world.39 views · Oct 18, 20241× typical views
• Human Limitations69 views · Apr 26, 20251× typical views
• Universe30 views · Aug 31, 20241× typical views

Latest videos

1 of curious's last 16 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• #Dream201 views · May 14, 2026
• The program468 views · May 14, 2026
• Jordan Peterson 🙌 If you can think, and speak, and write, you are absolutely deadly1.3K views · May 10, 2026
• Successful Psychopath1.9K views · May 9, 2026
• Human Limitations69 views · Apr 26, 20251× typical views
• Osho: I love to disturb people1.1K views · Feb 5, 20251× typical views
• DOCUMENTARY: Why and How IBM ended up creating the PC | IBM the leading tech company40 views · Oct 21, 20241× typical views
• Osho on Education System872 views · Oct 18, 20241× typical views
• Documentary of Benjamin Netanyahu | Israel president who don't hesitate14 views · Oct 18, 20241× typical views
• Documentary on Psychedelics | Drugs change the mind and mind change the world.39 views · Oct 18, 20241× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.6K videos from 404 channels in this niche. 12.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 12K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 202×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 42.9×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 25.3×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 61.9×), James Sullivan (6.8K subs, best video 10.5×), ViralVerseUSA (9.4K subs, best video 38.8×).

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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 curious or YouTube.