Refinement — what each niche is doing
| Niche | Subs | Subs/day | State | Posts/day | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ever Wondered | 467 | +9.6 | ↗ climb | 5 | climbing — recent reels out-viewing early ones, keep exploring |
| The Midnight Zone | 211 | +6.5 | ↗ climb | 5 | climbing — recent reels out-viewing early ones, keep exploring |
| The Lost Record | 85 | — | ✕ killed | 0 | killed — trickling 1 every 3d (revives if a reel breaks out) |
| The Deep Unknown | 51 | +0.2 | ✕ killed | 0 | killed — trickling 1 every 3d (revives if a reel breaks out) |
| Still Unsolved | 11 | — | ✕ killed | 0 | killed — trickling 1 every 3d (revives if a reel breaks out) |
| Bite-Size Science | 24 | +1.9 | ✕ killed | 0 | killed — trickling 1 every 3d (revives if a reel breaks out) |
| Inside You | 23 | — | ✕ killed | 0 | killed — trickling 1 every 3d (revives if a reel breaks out) |
| The Money Instinct | 0 | — | ✕ killed | 0 | killed — trickling 1 every 3d (revives if a reel breaks out) |
The daily publishing target each channel in the niche is held to (floor POST_MIN_PER_DAY, ceiling YT_MAX_PER_DAY).
explore = unproven, posting the flat explore rate;
climb = under the view floor but recent reels are out-viewing early ones, so it keeps exploring;
taper = had its at-bats with no hit, trickling while they mature;
scale = a reel cleared the view floor, scaling by performance;
killed = retired to a deep trickle (revives if a reel ever breaks out).
Per-post clone/kill hints are in the ranked table below.
Best posting hours (UTC · top 8)
| Hour (UTC) | Posts | Avg views | Avg watch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02:00 | 101 | 465 | 54s |
| 04:00 | 92 | 426 | 55s |
| 06:00 | 84 | 383 | 58s |
| 10:00 | 38 | 337 | 50s |
| 00:00 | 141 | 335 | 45s |
| 01:00 | 38 | 322 | 50s |
| 07:00 | 57 | 312 | 54s |
| 08:00 | 80 | 307 | 48s |
Highest avg-views hours first. Sparse early — as it fills, move POST_SLOTS
toward the top rows. Per-channel truth lives in YouTube Studio's
“when your viewers are on YouTube.”
168,516
Ever Wondered
297 posts · avg watch 64.2s
69,345
The Midnight Zone
258 posts · avg watch 47.7s
30,071
The Lost Record
76 posts · avg watch 53.5s
15,453
The Deep Unknown
69 posts · avg watch 55.1s
7,368
Bite-Size Science
51 posts · avg watch 24.1s
5,659
Inside You
78 posts · avg watch 52.3s
2,926
Still Unsolved
33 posts · avg watch 52.2s
400
The Money Instinct
44 posts · avg watch 19.0s
Views gained per day (per niche)
food-science
peak 1,514
history
peak 5,451
human-body
peak 2,273
money-mind
peak 156
mystery
peak 6,360
ocean
peak 7,739
space-science
peak 5,460
unsolved
peak 1,035
Ranked posts
| # | Title | Brand / Niche | Views | Likes | Comments | Shares | Avg watch | Hint |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Deepest Dark | The Deep Unknown / mystery | 2,509 | 35 | 1 | 1 | 37.0s | clone |
| 2 | Why Your Pupils Dilate in Darkness | Inside You / human-body | 2,008 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 35.0s | clone |
| 3 | Why Your Brain Creates False Memories | The Deep Unknown / mystery | 1,559 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 52.0s | clone |
| 4 | The Mariana Phenomenon: Pressure So Extreme It Breaks Physics | The Deep Unknown / mystery | 1,549 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 60.0s | clone |
| 5 | The Silent Poison: Rome's Hidden Epidemic | The Lost Record / history | 1,407 | 43 | 0 | 2 | 33.0s | clone |
| 6 | How Pressure Crushes Everything Into New Shapes | The Midnight Zone / ocean | 1,353 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 36.0s | clone |
| 7 | Why Ancient Builders Left Flaws in Stone | The Lost Record / history | 1,300 | 80 | 1 | 0 | 41.0s | clone |
| 8 | How Your Digestive System Knows When to Speed Up or Slow Down | Inside You / human-body | 1,259 | 42 | 0 | 7 | 34.0s | clone |
| 9 | What Happens When a Star Runs Out of Fuel | Ever Wondered / space-science | 1,246 | 58 | 3 | 1 | 71.0s | clone |
| 10 | How Black Holes Warp Time Around You | Ever Wondered / space-science | 1,224 | 51 | 0 | 1 | 74.0s | clone |
| 11 | Whale Falls: Nature's Underwater Buffet That Lasts Decades | The Midnight Zone / ocean | 1,219 | 59 | 0 | 3 | 61.0s | clone |
| 12 | The Creature That Survived 36,000 Feet Down | The Midnight Zone / ocean | 1,208 | 47 | 1 | 1 | 61.0s | clone |
| 13 | Why Mercury Is Closer to the Sun Than Venus | Ever Wondered / space-science | 1,204 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 66.0s | clone |
| 14 | How Medieval Children Were Dressed Like Tiny Adults | The Lost Record / history | 1,203 | 70 | 1 | 0 | 41.0s | clone |
| 15 | Falling Into a Pulsar's Magnetic Field | Ever Wondered / space-science | 1,197 | 42 | 1 | 1 | 67.0s | clone |
| 16 | Sounds from the Ocean Floor That Science Can't Identify | The Deep Unknown / mystery | 1,191 | 65 | 2 | 0 | 35.0s | clone |
| 17 | The Backyard Discovery That Accidentally Mapped Entire Continents | The Lost Record / history | 1,184 | 33 | 0 | 2 | 44.0s | clone |
| 18 | The Coldest Place in the Known Universe | Ever Wondered / space-science | 1,127 | 60 | 1 | 3 | 64.0s | clone |
| 19 | Why Some Stars Spin Like Pulsars | Ever Wondered / space-science | 1,110 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 62.0s | clone |
| 20 | The Forgotten Recipe That Kept Soldiers Marching for Weeks | The Lost Record / history | 1,110 | 46 | 1 | 0 | 75.0s | clone |
| 21 | The Strangest Defense Mechanisms of Deep-Sea Fish | The Midnight Zone / ocean | 1,095 | 67 | 1 | 1 | 57.0s | clone |
| 22 | What Happens When a Star Loses Its Gravity Well | Ever Wondered / space-science | 1,079 | 43 | 1 | 1 | 55.0s | clone |
| 23 | How Dead Whales Resurrect the Seafloor for a Hundred Years | The Midnight Zone / ocean | 1,078 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 52.0s | clone |
| 24 | Why Planets Spin at Different Speeds | Ever Wondered / space-science | 1,064 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 60.0s | clone |
| 25 | The Fish That Became a Living Fossil at the Bottom of the World | The Midnight Zone / ocean | 1,060 | 65 | 3 | 0 | 57.0s | clone |