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Subscribers 40K

Videos 31

Views 2.0M

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History After Dark covers historical biographies and ideologies through deep-dives and bedtime history documentaries, focusing on revolutionary figures, leaders, and economic/philosophical ideas. The channel uses long-form, narrative explorations of prominent figures and movements, with recent videos featuring Marx, Freud, Gandhi, Lenin, Mao, and others, and publishes content regularly with an average of about 133.3K views per video across 31 total uploads.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to History After Dark?

History After Dark's biggest competitors are CrashCourse (81% match, 16.9M subscribers), The People Profiles (77% match, 1.6M subscribers), and Timeline - World History Documentaries (73% match, 5.8M subscribers). They share a focus on educational history content delivered in documentary or profile-style formats with historical analysis.

What type of content does History After Dark make?

History After Dark creates short to mid-length history documentary-style videos with titles like 'Karl Marx: The Most Dangerous Philosopher in History' and 'How Gandhi Changed the World Forever.' The channel likely uploads multiple videos per week and averages around 133.3K views per video based on recent data.

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We analyze History After Dark's recent videos, generate topic-relevant search queries, check YouTube search results, and compare the meaning of each channel's content to measure similarity. The result is a ranked list sorted by SERP overlap, semantic similarity, and search appearances.

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