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Elias Yoder

@eliasyoderamish

Language: EnglishCountry: United States6 years old

  • Persona: Elias Yoder · Homesteader · Middle-aged
  • Sells · $47 guide
  • Amish living
  • Household hacks
  • Frugal living
  • Home repair
  • Food preservation
  • Gardening
  • Heating and cooling
  • Pest control
Subscribers
367K
Total views
19.2M
Videos
195

Stats updated Stats from YouTube

Growth

Subscribers · daily totals we stored, UTC days

Dotted: 2 days without a fresh subscriber total stored in this range. Left out, not filled in.

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Subscribers per UTC day, last 30 days, newest first
Day (UTC)Subscribers
Oct 14, 2026367,000
Oct 13, 2026367,000
Oct 12, 2026366,000
Oct 11, 2026366,000
Oct 10, 2026366,000
Oct 9, 2026366,000
Oct 8, 2026365,000
Oct 7, 2026not available
Oct 6, 2026not available
Oct 5, 2026365,000
Oct 4, 2026365,000
Oct 3, 2026364,000
Oct 2, 2026364,000
Oct 1, 2026364,000
Sep 30, 2026363,000
Sep 29, 2026363,000
Sep 28, 2026363,000
Sep 27, 2026363,000
Sep 26, 2026362,000
Sep 25, 2026362,000
Sep 24, 2026362,000
Sep 23, 2026361,000
Sep 22, 2026361,000
Sep 21, 2026361,000
Sep 20, 2026351,000
Sep 19, 2026360,000
Sep 18, 2026359,000
Sep 17, 2026359,000
Sep 16, 2026359,000
Sep 15, 2026358,000
Sep 14, 2026358,000

Top videos

Most viewed

What they sell

From the public store pages the channel links to, checked Oct 12, 2026.

How they sell it

  1. 1Video
  2. 2DescriptionOpens with 'Save $6,000 A Year with My Complete Amish Home-Saving Method'; the link follows on the next line
  3. 3Landing pageSingle-product page for the manual, also the about link labelled 'e-book' · eliasyoder.com
  4. 4CheckoutGumroad · Buy buttons link to the Gumroad product page
  • Store link in 97% of recent descriptions
  • Link in descriptions since Aug 20, 2026
  • Entry points: the About page, the description body

Nearly every recent description opens with 'Save $6,000 A Year with My Complete Amish Home-Saving Method I teach:' and a link to eliasyoder.com, which the about section also links as 'e-book'. The page sells The Amish Home Savings Manual by Elias and Esther Yoder, a 700+ page illustrated PDF (Second Edition) with four bonus items, for $47 against a struck $77 as a launch price that ends Sunday, with a 7-day refund guarantee. Every buy button goes to a Gumroad product page; the page asks for no email address and says nothing about AI.

Analysis

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

Persona

Elias Yoder

Homesteader · Middle-aged · Male · Amish farmstead: workshop, greenhouse, garden, butchery and attic scenes

Niche

Cheap Amish-style household fixes for heating, cooling, food and garden

Audience

Budget-minded homeowners and homesteaders who want cheap, low-tech fixes that cut bills and avoid store-bought products (inferred from titles and the about text).

Avatar
  • Realistic avatar
  • A photorealistic middle-aged man with a long grey-streaked beard and no moustache, a straw hat, a white shirt and black suspenders, placed in rustic workshop, garden and attic scenes.
Format

One cheap household fix or old method per video, priced in the title and explained as how Amish families do it; recent uploads add numbered lists (10 vinegar hacks, 12 foods).

Content pillars
  • Heating and cooling without big bills
  • Food storage and cheap meals
  • Garden and seed tricks
  • Cleaning with baking soda and vinegar
  • Home repair and electrical
  • Natural pest control
Title patterns
  • The $[N] [X] That [benefit] Forever... [extra claim]
  • Stop Buying [product] — This Cheap $[N] Amish Recipe (Lasts a Year)
  • This $[N] [X] [benefit] — The [industry] Hoped You'd Never Find Out
  • [N] [X] Hacks That WORK And [N] That Will RUIN Things
Thumbnails

The persona in Amish dress holding or pointing at the object in a rendered scene, two or three lines of heavy white and yellow caps, usually with a dollar price, plus arrows and small infographic insets.

Their thumbnails, most viewed first

Why it works
  • Strong launch: the first two uploads (May 17 and 19) have 1.92M and 2.26M views; the top 10 hold about 9.7M of 18.6M total views
  • Price hooks: 7 of the 10 top videos put a small dollar amount in the title ($3-$20, one $300)
  • A clear identity: "Amish" in 4 of the 10 top titles and the same hat, beard and suspenders in every thumbnail
  • Very high output: about 8.9 uploads a week, median gap 0.6 days, 182 videos since mid-May
  • Still growing: 2.86M views and 15,000 subscribers in the last 30 days on 364k subscribers

Where the channel points

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

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