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Video taking off 6x its usual first day

RJ Mitte recommendations set up al jokes' celebrity-death sketch

The staged phone-scrolling realization passed a million views in thirteen hours, with comments already busier than a usual full day.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,452,962 views a day, 6 times a normal first day on this channel (242,892).

RIP RJ MITTE 🐐 #shorts #comedy #funnyRIP RJ MITTE 🐐 #shorts #comedy #funny

An old interview, then an old music video: al jokes' scrolling character starts wondering why the son from Breaking Bad keeps appearing on his phone.

That pattern is the premise of "RIP RJ MITTE 🐐 #shorts #comedy #funny," a staged comedy sketch about learning of a celebrity death indirectly. Despite the title, the upload is a sketch, not a death announcement.

The on-screen caption establishes the situation before the character catches up. He reads out recommendations featuring Mitte, noticing how far back they go, until recognition interrupts the browsing. There is no news bulletin in the scene, just a feed that suddenly seems to be telling him something.

The Short passed a million views in thirteen hours, running well ahead of al jokes' usual opening pace. Its comment section had also already drawn more than twice the channel's usual full-day total for Shorts, with viewers returning to the sketch's circular premise: discovering something through a joke about discovering it indirectly.

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The facts
Channel
al jokes
Subscribers
3,290,000
Channel views, last 7 days
30,742,529
Channel views, pace per day
4,943,015 (on a normal day: 3,901,594)
Video published
October 19, 2026
Video views so far
1,044,772 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
1,452,962

The numbers

The Short's opening pace is well above the channel's usual start, and its comments have already exceeded a typical full day.

the video's first day
usual first day here
242,892
this video
1,452,962
subscribers
3,290,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
5,044,444,564
views per day
4,943,015
typical day: 3,901,594
the video
views
1,044,772
likes
48,136
comments
1,524
days online
1
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
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3,480,000
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3,400,000
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3,290,000
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3,230,000
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3,230,000
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3,140,000
As of October 20, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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