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Captain Disillusion

@captaindisillusion2.5M subscribers117 videosView channel
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$1,520a month

About $18,300 a year, likely $10,800 to $30,900

Low end$900
Most likely$1,520
High end$2,570

Where the money comes from

Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate

  • Long videos830K views a month$1,50098%
  • Shorts136.6K views a month$181%
  • Live streams2,908 views a month$50%

Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 1,746,535 views per long video and typical sponsor rates for this niche.

Views per video

The last 30 public uploads, oldest on the left. Tap or hover a bar for the video.

Long videosShortsLive streams
04M8M
Median 1.9M
Apr 9Jul 21
Show as a table
VideoFormatPostedViews
Captain's Alan's Digital Spaghetti's Movie ClubShortJul 21286,771
Find me at OpenSauce... before Captain Disillusion does!ShortJul 9397,759
CD / BlurLong videoMay 221,418,866
something funny right nowLong videoDec 29492,898
SNL VFX Mystery | Quick DLong videoDec 201,301,375
Beckham Beach Kicks DEBUNKLong videoAug 21,974,689
CD / Shutter SpeedLong videoJan 281,288,648
Surviving Feedback - Live at the Blender Conference 2023Long videoNov 2282,716
Coming clean about the wrenchShortOct 6804,293
AlBot #vfx #animation #shortsShortSep 305,207,357
Empty World | Quick DLong videoAug 81,558,469
Orangutan Card Trick DEBUNKLong videoMay 22,455,372
Why No Debunks? #shortsShortDec 57,534,148
CD / The Horrors of the Alpha ChannelLong videoOct 222,038,164
Music Video VFX Magic With ATARASHII GAKKO!Live streamJul 262,685,230
The Great British Fake Off | Quick DLong videoDec 252,512,953
Playing With 'Playing With Time' | Quick DLong videoSep 23,048,759
Flight of the Navigator | VFXcoolLive streamMay 203,163,839
Mr. Flare Explains: The Popcorn GuyLong videoDec 251,129,953
Behind the Scenes with James RandiLong videoOct 22580,008
CD / ColorLong videoAug 182,870,496
UFO on the Moon | Quick DLong videoJun 32,426,823
THE DEBUNKATHONLong videoApr 82,957,045
EXTENDED CUT - Captain D's 'Could You Survive GHOSTBUSTERS' SegmentLong videoNov 4879,367
Gyro Drop | Quick DLong videoOct 44,804,072
Static Helicopter Blades | Quick DLong videoAug 122,675,551
CD / Interlacing ADDENDUMLong videoJun 201,131,659
CD / InterlacingLong videoJun 31,825,583
CD / ResolutionLong videoMay 141,978,372
CD / Aspect RatioLong videoApr 91,346,756

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Why this number

What lifts the estimate and what holds it back

Holds back

Niche: Entertainment

$0.80 to $5 per 1,000 views

$0typical $2$10

Long videos in this niche typically pay about $2 per 1,000 views to the creator.

Helps

Where viewers likely are

100% of US ad rates

0%US rates

Based on the channel's language and country (English, based in the US). Ads pay far more in the US, UK, Canada and Australia than elsewhere.

Neutral

Shorts in the mix

14% of views this month

Long 86%Shorts 14%

Shorts pay about $0.13 per 1,000 views, a small fraction of long videos, so the same views earn much less.

Holds back

Videos under 8 minutes

median 5 min

0 min8 min mark20 min

Below 8 minutes YouTube only shows ads before and after, so each view pays less.

Holds back

Upload pace: stalled

0 per week

0.1 before
0.0 now

That is 0x the 90 days before.

Holds back

Views per video are falling

0.58x

Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.

Neutral

Old videos still bring views

1.1M views a month

Uploads older than three years keep getting watched. We count them at half their lifetime average pace, a conservative guess, capped by the channel's lifetime average.

Time to monetize

When this channel can earn from YouTube ads

Can it earn from ads?Yes, already past the barIt meets the thresholds by our estimate and shows signs of earning

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How we got this. Views from the last 30 days are rebuilt from each public video's views and age, cut to the views YouTube pays on, then priced with niche, audience and video length ad rates from published creator data. We run this 2,000 times with realistic variation and show the middle half. Data read November 7, 2026, 17:40 UTC.

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