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Professor Blackwood

@professorblackwood

Language: EnglishCountry not available11 months old

  • Persona: Professor Blackwood · Expert · Senior
  • Sells · $9.99 guide (+4 more)
  • Baby boomers
  • Generation jones
  • Gen x
  • Generational psychology
  • Nostalgia
  • Aging
  • Retirement
  • American history
Subscribers
20.4K
Total views
2.83M
Videos
60

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, 202620,400
Oct 13, 202620,300
Oct 12, 202620,200
Oct 11, 202620,100
Oct 10, 202620,100
Oct 9, 202620,000
Oct 8, 202619,800
Oct 7, 2026not available
Oct 6, 2026not available
Oct 5, 202619,600
Oct 4, 202619,400
Oct 3, 202619,300
Oct 2, 202619,200
Oct 1, 202619,200
Sep 30, 202619,100
Sep 29, 202619,000
Sep 28, 202619,000
Sep 27, 202618,900
Sep 26, 202618,800
Sep 25, 202618,800
Sep 24, 202618,700
Sep 23, 202618,600
Sep 22, 202618,500
Sep 21, 202618,500
Sep 20, 202618,300
Sep 19, 202618,300
Sep 18, 202618,100
Sep 17, 202618,000
Sep 16, 202617,900
Sep 15, 202617,900
Sep 14, 202617,800

Top videos

Most viewed

What they sell

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

5 more offers were found and are waiting for review.

How they sell it

  1. 1Video
  2. 2DescriptionGumroad product links usually sit below the opening paragraphs; one first line reads "Get The 3000$ Retirement Reset here".
  3. 3Landing pageChannel site from the about links and one description; presents The Home Savings Manual and links to its Gumroad page. · professorblackwood.com
  4. 4Landing pageGumroad · $29 product page for the 81-page PDF with 8 printable worksheets. · professorblackwood.gumroad.com
  5. 5CheckoutGumroad
  • Store link in 60% of recent descriptions
  • Link in descriptions since Aug 14, 2026
  • Entry points: the About page, the first line of descriptions, the description body

Professor Blackwood sells printable PDF guides and workbooks on Gumroad for Baby Boomers and Generation Jones. The about links point to a Gumroad shop and to professorblackwood.com, a single-product page for The Home Savings Manual, an 81-page PDF that expands the video on what Boomers did before winter and sells for $29 on Gumroad. Since mid-August 2026 about 18 of the 30 newest descriptions link a Gumroad product, mostly below the opening paragraphs and matched to the video's topic: A Life Remembered and The Next Chapter Blueprint appear most often, followed by The $3,000 Retirement Reset and Starting Over at 50. The manual's page states no guarantee and asks for no email.

Analysis

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

Persona

Professor Blackwood

Expert · Senior · Male · A book-lined study with a desk, globe and a window over sunlit hills (banner)

Niche

Generational psychology of Baby Boomers, Generation Jones and Gen X

Audience

Americans born roughly 1946–1980, especially Baby Boomers and Generation Jones in or near retirement, interested in how their upbringing shaped them (inferred from titles, descriptions and channel keywords).

Avatar
  • Realistic avatar
  • A photorealistic older man with swept-back grey hair and a white beard in a dark sweater, at a desk in a book-lined study; the thumbnails mostly show other generated period characters rather than the professor.
Format

Narrated documentary essays on one generation's psychology, upbringing or future, illustrated with hundreds of AI-generated period clips; also multi-part series and long 'Full Documentary' compilations.

Typical length

14–22 min; 'Full Documentary' compilations run 1.5–2.7 h

Content pillars
  • Baby Boomer psychology and upbringing
  • Generation Jones and Gen X identity
  • Aging, retirement and loss after 60
  • Boomer wealth, homes and inheritance
  • Things that disappeared from everyday life
  • The World After Baby Boomers series
Title patterns
  • Why Baby Boomers [Are Quietly Disappearing From Social Life]
  • What Happens [When Baby Boomers Stop Spending]?
  • The World After Baby Boomers | Part [N]: [Subtitle] (Documentary)
  • The Psychology of [Generation Jones] — The Most Misunderstood Generation in American History
  • What Childhood Was Really Like in the [1950s] (AI Reconstructed Footage)
Thumbnails

One photoreal generated character, often a 1970s-styled woman or an older woman on a porch, fills half the frame in warm golden light, beside 2–4 words of huge white condensed all-caps text; older ones use an era photo with a text band.

Their thumbnails, most viewed first

Why it works
  • Psychology framing tops the channel: the 2 most viewed videos (547k and 351k views) promise a generation's psychology
  • Tight audience focus: 26 of the 30 newest titles name Baby Boomers, and every top-10 title targets a birth cohort or decade
  • A series that carries viewers: 'The World After Baby Boomers' Part 1 reached 215k views, Parts 2–5 12k–44k each
  • Strong engagement on the top video: 23,140 likes and 7,717 comments on 547k views
  • High output: about 6 uploads a week; 761,133 views and 2,200 subscribers in the last 30 days

Where the channel points

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

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