United States
TheBackyardScientist is a Florida-based YouTube creator who built a multi-million subscriber following around high-energy, often dangerous DIY experiments conducted — as the name suggests — largely in his own backyard.
Total Followers -0.0%
7M
Across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
Primary Platform
YouTube
6.2M followers · 88% of audience
Engagement
4.5%
vs. 1.5% category median
Sponsorship Tier
Mega
Est. $1.4K–$3.6K / IG post
| Window | YouTube | TikTok | Combined | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last 7 days | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +0 |
| Last 30 days | +0 +0.0% | -72 -0.1% | +0 +0.0% | -72 |
| Last 90 days | -9255 -0.1% | -652 -0.9% | +0 +0.0% | -9907 |
| Last 365 days | -9255 -0.1% | -652 -0.9% | +0 +0.0% | -9907 |
Daily follower snapshots from CreatorDB's longitudinal index.
| Brand | Type | Platform | Date | Performance vs. baseline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CrunchLabs Sponsorship | Sponsored content | YouTube | Apr 2024 | — |
| Columbia Sportswear Outdoor / Apparel | Sponsored content | YouTube | Long-term | — |
TheBackyardScientist is a Florida-based YouTube creator who built a multi-million subscriber following around high-energy, often dangerous DIY experiments conducted — as the name suggests — largely in his own backyard. His breakout content leaned heavily into molten-metal pours, explosive projectile builds, and physics-defying contraptions like rocket-powered knives and pressurized arrow launchers. The self-coined phrase 'constructive lawlessness,' which he uses across both Instagram and TikTok, doubles as an accurate content brief: the channel sits at the intersection of amateur engineering, spectacle science, and a distinctly Floridian disregard for conventional safety margins. His YouTube topic signals — spanning science education, DIY crafts, homemade tools, and engineering — reflect a genuinely broad appeal that pulls in both casual curiosity seekers and dedicated maker-culture enthusiasts.
Engagement rates well above the category median, particularly on TikTok, suggest the audience that remains active is highly invested despite a posting hiatus that stretches back roughly a year across all platforms as of mid-2026. His gender-balanced audience is somewhat unusual in the DIY-science space, indicating the content crosses gender lines more effectively than typical tools-and-tech channels. A sponsorship with CrunchLabs — Mark Rober's STEM subscription box brand — signals clean brand alignment with the science-curious, hands-on demographic, and suggests TheBackyardScientist's commercial positioning sits comfortably in the family-adjacent, education-leaning tier of the experiment creator space. Whether a return to regular uploads would fully revive his reach or find a shifted algorithm landscape remains the key variable in his near-term trajectory.
TheBackyardScientist reaches an audience concentrated in United States primarily through YouTube, and is best activated via long-form YouTube integrations, Instagram Reels and Stories, TikTok branded content. Their sponsorship history skews toward Outdoor / Apparel, a clear signal of fit for brands in those categories. Demonstrated partners include CrunchLabs and Columbia Sportswear. Engagement on YouTube runs around 4.5%, pointing to an audience suited to category-relevant, mid-funnel brand campaigns rather than pure-reach buys.
Benchmark estimates for a creator at TheBackyardScientist's tier (Mega, 7M combined followers, United States). Pulled from CreatorDB's category benchmarks.
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TheBackyardScientist built and launched a knife using a rocket motor, reaching speeds of around 400 mph in one of his most-watched experiments. The build combines DIY engineering with high-speed science to push an everyday object into genuinely dangerous territory — exactly the kind of stunt his channel is built around.
Constructive lawlessness is TheBackyardScientist's self-coined tagline, used across both his TikTok and Instagram profiles. It captures his content philosophy: running extreme, high-risk experiments — rocket-powered knives, exploding arrows, pure oxygen combustion — in a way that's creative and builds something rather than just causes chaos.
As of mid-2026, TheBackyardScientist's YouTube channel has gone close to a year without a new upload, which has fans questioning whether the channel is on an indefinite hiatus. No public announcement explaining the slowdown has been made, though his deep back catalog of experiments continues to attract views and keep engagement well above the category average.
One of TheBackyardScientist's most iconic experiments involves pouring molten aluminum directly into a fire ant colony, filling the underground tunnel network before it hardens into a detailed cast. Once excavated, the result is a striking sculpture that reveals the colony's architecture — equal parts science demonstration and accidental art piece.
In his "Don't Smoke in pure oxygen" video, TheBackyardScientist demonstrates that lighting a cigarette in an oxygen-enriched environment causes combustion to accelerate dramatically and dangerously fast. It's a vivid, hands-on illustration of how oxygen concentration — not just fuel — is the real driver of fire intensity.
TheBackyardScientist's titanium video highlights that the metal's fine chips and shavings are surprisingly flammable — a little-known property for a material most people associate with toughness and heat resistance. Under the right conditions, titanium turnings can ignite and burn at extreme temperatures, which slots perfectly into his "constructive lawlessness" content style.
Yes, TheBackyardScientist partnered with CrunchLabs — the subscription science-kit company founded by Mark Rober — for sponsored content on YouTube as recently as April 2024. The collaboration is a natural fit given that both creators operate in the hands-on science and engineering entertainment space.
Despite opening his YouTube bio with "Aloha YouTubers," TheBackyardScientist is based in the United States and the greeting reads as a casual, signature opener rather than a geographic signal. His content — backyard builds, metalworking, and outdoor experiments — hasn't pointed to a specific Hawaiian setting.
TheBackyardScientist builds exploding arrows by combining standard archery equipment with chemistry and engineering modifications, then firing them into targets to trigger the reaction on impact. The project is a recurring example of his broader approach: taking a familiar object and redesigning it around an extreme science principle to see what happens.
TheBackyardScientist has grown to over 6 million subscribers on YouTube, placing him firmly in the Mega creator tier. His engagement rate runs well above the science and education category average, which signals a loyal audience that stays active even during long gaps between uploads.
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