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xkcd's What If?

xkcd's What If?

@xkcd_whatif
1.4M subscribers88 videos198M viewsUSen3.1y old
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Animation · confirmed$Likely monetizedScience & space
Channel statsLifetime · refreshed hourly
Subscribers
1.4M
0 · 1d
Views / hour
6.2K
recent uploads · 62.1K in 24 h
Views 7d
73.7K
over 1 day so far
Total views
198M
88 videos
Uploads / week
0.5
2 min median
Median views
1.2M
last 20 uploads
Outlier
59.2×
vs niche median
Ad revenue 30d
$5.4K–13.5K
see how we estimated it

Growth

Subscribers and views as FameX records them

Subscribers

Daily snapshots stored by FameX

Monetization

YouTube Partner Program: 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 long-form watch hours in 12 months

$Likely monetized
Subscribers1.4M / 1K
Watch hours (12 mo, est.)57.9K / 4K

Estimated from public YouTube data, not confirmed by YouTube. Watch hours estimated from lifetime views per year and recent uploads × typical watch time.

The formula

Niche, persona, format and what makes it work

Niche

science explanation

Content pillar

Absurd scientific hypotheticals

Title patterns

The $[N] [X] That [benefit] Forever

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Audience, title patterns, thumbnail style, offers and funnel.

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Why it's faceless

Animation · confirmed · 100% confidence

The evidence
  • 1about text states it is the official adaptation of xkcd books by Randall Munroe and produced by Neptune Studios LLC, featuring stick figure drawings and animated explanatory sketches.

Videos

2:30
What if all your DNA suddenly vanished?
1.8M views · 6d ago
1:10
More weird and worrying questions
1.5M views · 1w ago
2:43
If you put a toaster in a freezer, which wins?
1.5M views · 4w ago
1:41
Could you power your computer by typing?
439K views · 6w ago
3.5×2:04
What if all visible light was a single beam?
4.1M views · 6w ago
3:04
What if Earth’s Water Suddenly Disappeared?
1M views · 7w ago
2:10
How long could you drive towards the sunset?
1.7M views · 2mo ago
1:29
What if the Moon were made of Protons?
1.2M views · 2mo ago
0:48
Weird and worrying questions
1.5M views · 2mo ago
0:55
What if half the human population ate the other half 🍽️
608K views · 3mo ago
0:59
How long could the human race survive on only cannibalism?
567K views · 3mo ago
2:46
What would a rainbow be like on Tatooine?
676K views · 3mo ago
1:36
What if you used a microwave as a snowblower?
1.3M views · 3mo ago
1:16
What if we turned the moon into a black hole?
1M views · 3mo ago
2:55
What if everything was antimatter EXCEPT Earth?
1.3M views · 4mo ago
1:29
What if you funneled the Niagara Falls through a straw?
937K views · 4mo ago
1:12
What if you had literally had all of the world's money?
671K views · 4mo ago
2.2×2:53
What if you dropped a bowling ball in the Mariana Trench?
2.5M views · 4mo ago
1:24
What would the world's largest cities be like if the land masses were rotated by 90 degrees?
203K views · 5mo ago
1:55
What would your country be like if the land masses were rotated by 90°?
1M views · 5mo ago

How it makes money

Ad revenue estimate, products and where the channel sends viewers

How we estimated ad revenue

Last 30 days. Every step is shown, and the parts add up to the total.

Niche RPM
what this niche typically earns per 1,000 views from an English audience
$4.00–$10
Audience
English
×1
Video length
Under 4 min · few ads
×0.5
Long-form · 2.7M views
at $2.00–$5.00 RPM
$5,366–$13,414
Shorts · 625K views (19%)
at $0.03–$0.08 RPM
$19–$50
Estimated total$5,385–$13,464

An estimate from public data, not YouTube Analytics. Sponsorships, memberships and products aren't included.

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Data from YouTube via YouTube API Services, refreshed hourly. Analysis by FameX — not YouTube data. Revenue is an estimate from niche RPM ranges.

About xkcd's What If?

Is xkcd's What If? a faceless channel?

Yes. FameX classifies xkcd's What If? as a animation channel (confirmed, 100% confidence). about text states it is the official adaptation of xkcd books by Randall Munroe and produced by Neptune Studios LLC, featuring stick figure drawings and animated explanatory sketches.

Is xkcd's What If? monetized?

Probably. With 1,370,000 subscribers and an estimated 57,851 watch hours in the last 12 months, xkcd's What If? appears to meet the YouTube Partner Program thresholds (1,000 subscribers and 4,000 long-form watch hours in 12 months). This is a FameX estimate, not confirmed by YouTube.

How much does xkcd's What If? make?

FameX estimates xkcd's What If? earns about $5,385–$13,464 a month from YouTube ads, based on 3.3M views in 30 days and a typical RPM for the science & space niche. Sponsorships, memberships and product sales are not included.

How fast is xkcd's What If? growing?

In the last 1 days, xkcd's What If? gained 0 subscribers and got 73,695 channel views. It has 1,370,000 subscribers and 197,815,894 total views.

What kind of videos does xkcd's What If? post?

Xkcd's What If? makes science explanation; it uploads about 0.5 videos a week; typical videos run 2 minutes.

Data updated 20 Oct 2026. Subscriber and view counts come from the YouTube Data API; verdicts, monetization and revenue are FameX estimates. How FameX works · More science & space channels