Refinement — what each niche is doing
| Niche | Subs | Subs/day | State | Posts/day | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ever Wondered | 549 | +0.9 | ✕ killed | 0 | killed — trickling 1 every 3d (revives if a reel breaks out) |
| The Lost Record | 85 | — | ✕ killed | 0 | killed — trickling 1 every 3d (revives if a reel breaks out) |
| The Midnight Zone | 252 | — | ✕ killed | 0 | killed — trickling 1 every 3d (revives if a reel breaks out) |
| The Deep Unknown | 60 | +0.4 | ✕ 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) |
| Inside You | 25 | +0.1 | ✕ killed | 0 | killed — trickling 1 every 3d (revives if a reel breaks out) |
| Bite-Size Science | 28 | +0.0 | ✕ 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 | 122 | 473 | 55s |
| 04:00 | 100 | 446 | 55s |
| 06:00 | 93 | 407 | 59s |
| 10:00 | 46 | 350 | 52s |
| 00:00 | 163 | 341 | 45s |
| 07:00 | 69 | 333 | 62s |
| 05:00 | 71 | 328 | 68s |
| 03:00 | 61 | 328 | 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.”
203,521
Ever Wondered
362 posts · avg watch 64.1s
91,134
The Midnight Zone
319 posts · avg watch 47.6s
30,728
The Lost Record
83 posts · avg watch 51.5s
16,252
The Deep Unknown
76 posts · avg watch 61.2s
9,028
Bite-Size Science
65 posts · avg watch 25.5s
5,929
Inside You
85 posts · avg watch 47.5s
2,930
Still Unsolved
33 posts · avg watch 51.7s
404
The Money Instinct
44 posts · avg watch 18.4s
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 | 2,010 | 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 | 1,409 | 43 | 0 | 2 | 33.0s | clone |
| 6 | How Pressure Crushes Everything Into New Shapes | The Midnight Zone / ocean | 1,360 | 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 | 1,255 | 59 | 3 | 1 | 71.0s | clone |
| 10 | The Submersible That Survived What Crushed Everything Around It | The Midnight Zone / ocean | 1,233 | 60 | 2 | 1 | 68.0s | clone |
| 11 | How Black Holes Warp Time Around You | Ever Wondered / space-science | 1,225 | 50 | 0 | 1 | 74.0s | clone |
| 12 | When a Star Meets the Point of No Return | Ever Wondered / space-science | 1,224 | 32 | 4 | 1 | 56.0s | clone |
| 13 | Whale Falls: Nature's Underwater Buffet That Lasts Decades | The Midnight Zone / ocean | 1,224 | 59 | 0 | 3 | 61.0s | clone |
| 14 | The Creature That Survived 36,000 Feet Down | The Midnight Zone / ocean | 1,214 | 47 | 1 | 1 | 61.0s | clone |
| 15 | How Medieval Children Were Dressed Like Tiny Adults | The Lost Record / history | 1,205 | 70 | 1 | 0 | 41.0s | clone |
| 16 | Why Mercury Is Closer to the Sun Than Venus | Ever Wondered / space-science | 1,203 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 66.0s | clone |
| 17 | Falling Into a Pulsar's Magnetic Field | Ever Wondered / space-science | 1,203 | 43 | 1 | 1 | 67.0s | clone |
| 18 | Sounds from the Ocean Floor That Science Can't Identify | The Deep Unknown / mystery | 1,197 | 65 | 2 | 0 | 35.0s | clone |
| 19 | The Backyard Discovery That Accidentally Mapped Entire Continents | The Lost Record / history | 1,184 | 33 | 0 | 2 | 44.0s | clone |
| 20 | How Life Survives Where Every Atom Gets Squeezed | The Midnight Zone / ocean | 1,180 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 25.0s | clone |
| 21 | The Coldest Place in the Known Universe | Ever Wondered / space-science | 1,128 | 60 | 1 | 3 | 64.0s | clone |
| 22 | Why Some Stars Spin Like Pulsars | Ever Wondered / space-science | 1,112 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 62.0s | clone |
| 23 | The Forgotten Recipe That Kept Soldiers Marching for Weeks | The Lost Record / history | 1,110 | 46 | 1 | 0 | 75.0s | clone |
| 24 | The Strangest Defense Mechanisms of Deep-Sea Fish | The Midnight Zone / ocean | 1,098 | 67 | 1 | 1 | 57.0s | clone |
| 25 | How Dead Whales Resurrect the Seafloor for a Hundred Years | The Midnight Zone / ocean | 1,082 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 52.0s | clone |