AI Mbappé buys himself shoes instead of helping Haaland
A snowy, wordless sketch on ainimal-rescue-ai passes 13 million views, with a shoebox standing in for an act of kindness.
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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 15,343,688 views a day, 77 times a normal first day on this channel (199,522).
Mbappé Bought New Shoes... But Kept Them for Himself!(3D Parody) #haaland #funny #Mbappé
Haaland gets the box. The shoes, however, are already on Mbappé's feet.
That is the joke in ainimal-rescue-ai's fast-moving Short, a CGI parody using AI-generated and AI-enhanced digital likenesses, not footage of the footballers. It passed 13 million views in its first 17 hours, already far beyond the channel's usual first day for a Short.
The setup makes Mbappé look like a rescuer. Haaland sits barefoot in a snow-covered street, wrapping a yellow plastic bag around his foot. Mbappé appears moved to tears, heads into a shoe store and buys blue cleats. He returns smiling with a shoebox, only for Haaland to discover that the apparent gift contains nothing.
There is no spoken dialogue. The contrast between Mbappé's sympathetic tears and his distinctly uncharitable purchase carries the sketch.
The channel describes a production process combining custom Blender environments, motion capture and AI-assisted visuals. Its football doubles inhabit a world of oversized everyday mishaps: another unusually fast-starting upload has Mbappé and Haaland eating Nutella with shovels. Here, though, an ordinary empty shoebox does the work.
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Where next?
- Channel
- ainimal-rescue-ai
- Subscribers
- 299,000 ▲ 26,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 104,703,958
- Channel views, pace per day
- 11,939,762 (on a normal day: 15,053,450)
- Video published
- November 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 13,199,600 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 15,343,688
The numbers
The shoe sketch has already exceeded the channel's usual full-day views for a Short. The Nutella parody is also drawing an unusually large early audience.
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