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Billy Ray Homestead

@billyrayhomestead

Language: EnglishCountry: United States30 days old

  • Persona: Billy Ray McCoy · Homesteader · Senior
  • Sells · $27 ebook (+3 more)
  • Homesteading
  • Appalachia
  • Off-grid living
  • Food preservation
  • Self-reliance
  • Gardening
  • Backyard chickens
  • Old-fashioned skills
Subscribers
910
Total views
20.9K
Videos
20

Stats updated Stats from YouTube

Growth

Subscribers · daily totals we stored, UTC days

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Subscribers per UTC day, last 30 days, newest first
Day (UTC)Subscribers
Oct 14, 2026910
Oct 13, 2026868
Oct 12, 2026814
Oct 11, 2026767
Oct 10, 2026727
Oct 9, 2026666
Oct 8, 2026602

Top videos

Most viewed

What they sell

From the public store pages the channel links to, checked Oct 14, 2026.

How they sell it

  1. 1Video
  2. 2Landing pageOwn checkout · headline 'Stop paying for what Grandma did for free.'; bundle $59 (was $81) or $27 singles · thehillbillyway.com
  3. 3Emailpop-up: leave an email to hold a $47 'porch price' for all three; 'The Porch Letter twice a week'
  4. 4CheckoutOwn checkout · own checkout.html page on the same site
  • Entry points: the About page

The about section links thehillbillyway.com (and its blog) under a 'Hillbilly Way' brand. The page, headlined 'Stop paying for what Grandma did for free.', sells three digital books for $27 each or all three for $59 (struck $81) with a 30-day money-back promise, and checks out on its own checkout page. A pop-up offers the three-book bundle at $47 in exchange for an email, which also joins a twice-weekly 'Porch Letter'. The page states that Billy Ray, Loretta Jean and Earl are characters created with the help of AI.

Analysis

Our own reading of the channel’s public titles, descriptions and thumbnails, not data from YouTube.

Persona

Billy Ray McCoy

Homesteader · Senior · Male · Eastern Kentucky hill farm: red barn, log cabin, root cellar, smokehouse, greenhouse

Niche

Old-way Appalachian homesteading: heat, food storage, gardening, chickens

Audience

Rural and would-be homesteaders and frugal households, likely older, who want to cut heating, grocery and farm bills with old Appalachian methods (inferred from titles and the about text, which promises nothing from the store and no bill every month).

Avatar
  • Realistic avatar
  • A photorealistic very old man with a deeply lined face, a worn brown felt hat, grey work shirt and denim overalls, shown full-figure or waist-up doing farm chores in rustic, often snowy settings.
Format

One self-reliance topic per video (heating, food storage, curing meat, chickens, gardening, barns) told as the old hillbilly way of doing it without gas, electricity, refrigeration or store-bought inputs; often a numbered list of 20–50 items.

Content pillars
  • Heating without gas or electricity
  • Storing and preserving food without refrigeration
  • Gardening and chicken-keeping hacks
  • Old barn and farm know-how
  • Appalachian farm life and land
Title patterns
  • How Hillbillies [Heat / Store / Preserve X] Without [Gas or Electricity / Refrigeration]
  • [N] Foods Hillbilly Families Stockpile That NEVER Expire
  • [N] Hillbilly [Gardening] Hacks You'll Wish You Knew Sooner
  • STOP [Doing X]: Hillbillies DO THIS Instead for $[Price] a Week
  • [N] Strange Features on Old Hillbilly [Barns] That Had a Brilliant Purpose
Thumbnails

A white top bar with a black all-caps headline ("NO FRIDGE, NO SPOILAGE", "HILLBILLY HEAT SECRET") over a full-colour scene of the persona mid-chore in a rustic setting, often with snow outside, gesturing at food, a stove or a tool.

Their thumbnails, most viewed first

Why it works
  • A "How Hillbillies [X] Without [gas, electricity, refrigeration]" formula: 4 of 10 titles, including the 2 most viewed (1,225 and 1,081 views)
  • The two heating videos hold about 2,306 of the channel's 3,545 views
  • Hillbilly framing in 8 of 10 titles, backed by a detailed backstory (sixth-generation holler, named wife and grandparents) in the about text
  • One consistent persona in the avatar, banner and 9 of 10 thumbnails, always in hat and overalls doing a chore
  • Savings hooks in titles: "$1.25 a Week", "NEVER Expire", "20 Years Without Refrigeration"

Where the channel points

Links from the channel’s About page and its video descriptions.

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