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Silas Mercer Cooking

@silasmercercooking

Language: EnglishCountry not available7 years old

  • Persona: Silas Mercer · Homesteader · Senior
  • Sells · $30 membership (+1 more)
  • Old-fashioned recipes
  • Budget meals
  • Frontier cooking
  • Depression era
  • Appalachia
  • Cooking for seniors
  • Foraging
  • Folklore
Subscribers
26.4K
Total views
2.39M
Videos
104

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.

Show the numbers
Subscribers per UTC day, last 30 days, newest first
Day (UTC)Subscribers
Oct 14, 202626,400
Oct 13, 202626,300
Oct 12, 202626,200
Oct 11, 202626,200
Oct 10, 202626,100
Oct 9, 202626,000
Oct 8, 202626,000
Oct 7, 2026not available
Oct 6, 2026not available
Oct 5, 202625,800
Oct 4, 202625,700
Oct 3, 202625,600
Oct 2, 202625,500
Oct 1, 202625,500
Sep 30, 202625,300
Sep 29, 202625,200
Sep 28, 202625,200
Sep 27, 202625,100
Sep 26, 202625,000
Sep 25, 202625,000
Sep 24, 202624,900
Sep 23, 202624,800
Sep 22, 202624,700
Sep 21, 202624,600
Sep 20, 202620,100
Sep 19, 202624,500
Sep 18, 202624,200
Sep 17, 202624,100
Sep 16, 202624,100
Sep 15, 202624,000
Sep 14, 202624,000

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. 2DescriptionEvery description opens with a 'Save $5,000 A Year' line followed by the store link
  3. 3Landing pageOwn site (Stripe) · Long sales page headed 'Survive Any Crisis' for a 904-page journal at a $37 launch price · silasmercer.shop
  4. 4CheckoutOwn site (Stripe) · Stripe checkout; the page names Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay and Cash App
  5. 5UpsellOwn site (Stripe) · Add-on at checkout: 7 days of the Mercer Ridge Society membership for $1, then $30 a month
  • Store link in 100% of recent descriptions
  • Link in descriptions since Aug 28, 2026
  • Entry points: the description body

Every recent description opens with a promise to save $5,000 a year through forgotten frontier skills, followed by a link to silasmercer.shop; the about text carries the same link. The page, headed 'Survive Any Crisis', sells 'The Forgotten Frontier Journal', an instant-download book of 904 pages and 124 chapters, at a $37 launch price (struck $47) that it says ends Sunday night, with a 7-day money-back guarantee and a Stripe checkout. An add-on at checkout puts the buyer into the Mercer Ridge Society membership for 7 days at $1, after which it renews at $30 a month unless cancelled.

Analysis

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

Persona

Silas Mercer

Homesteader · Senior · Male · Log-cabin kitchen, mountain trail, dark woods at night

Niche

Frontier and Depression-era budget cooking, now also Appalachian woods lore

Audience

Older and budget-minded home cooks drawn to frontier, cowboy and Depression-era food, and since late September viewers of Appalachian woods stories (inferred from titles; several address seniors and seniors living alone).

Avatar
  • Realistic avatar
  • A photorealistic older man with a long grey beard and shoulder-length hair, a battered brown felt hat, leather vest and cream shirt, shown in a log-cabin kitchen, on mountain trails or in dark woods.
Format

Long list or method videos with an old-times frame (frontier, cowboy, Depression era) around 8–30 cheap recipes or tricks; since Sep 27, Appalachian woods rules and folklore told as a local.

Content pillars
  • Forgotten poor-man and Depression-era meals
  • Frontier, cowboy and chuckwagon cooking
  • Cheap meals for seniors living alone
  • Old cooking tricks (steak, ribs, rice, cast iron)
  • Appalachian woods rules and folklore
Title patterns
  • [N] FORGOTTEN [Era] [Meals] No One Makes Anymore
  • [N] Forgotten Poor Man [X] For Seniors Living Alone
  • NEVER [Grill Your X] Again - Try This Old Frontier [Y] Trick
  • [N] [Meals] Every [Ranch Hand / Cowboy] in the 1800s [Ate / Cooked]
  • [N] Rules The Appalachian Locals NEVER Break — [Consequence]
Thumbnails

Cooking videos: the persona in a rustic cabin with a large dish, a bold 2–4 word white, yellow or red caption and a red arrow. Folklore videos: dark forest, the persona looking alarmed, a shadowy figure behind him.

Their thumbnails, most viewed first

Why it works
  • Old-times framing (1800s, frontier, Depression era, poor man, hillbilly, BANNED) in 7 of the 10 top titles
  • Concentrated early hits: the top 10, all published Jul 25 to Aug 23, hold about 1.67M of 2.27M total views (73%)
  • One named mountain-man persona appears in the avatar and all 10 thumbnails, giving the channel a recognisable face
  • Very high output: 94 videos since Jul 23, about 2 a day, median length about 32 min
  • The seniors-on-a-budget angle draws engagement: '17 Forgotten Poor Man 5-Minute Meals For Seniors Living Alone' has 7,589 likes and 436 comments

Where the channel points

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