Golden Axe arrives with Matthew Rhys and Danny Pudi, and an Among Us short steals focus
Four of Animated's five uploads promoted the new Paramount+ series based on Sega's arcade game, but a voting-round cartoon drew the biggest crowd.
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Golden Axe NEW SERIES | First 5 Minutes | Animated
Golden Axe, mostly. Paramount's animation channel spent its week introducing a new Paramount+ series built on Sega's 1989 arcade game, with four of its five uploads given over to it. The first five minutes went up first, presenting the familiar heroes Tyris Flare, Ax Battler and Gilius Thunderhead alongside a hapless newcomer, Hampton Squibb, whom the description winks at as the secret chosen one. The cast includes Matthew Rhys, Lisa Gilroy, Liam McIntyre and Danny Pudi. An intro clip followed, along with a skeleton fight that puts the show side by side with the game, its description pitying Death Adder's endlessly slashed henchmen.
The upload that drew the crowd, though, was a short cartoon about an Among Us vote: Purple pushing everyone to eject Red, and a possessed Green who just wants to go home. That plea is the line the comments keep returning to, half sympathy and half joke, and several viewers recognize voices from Minecraft: Story Mode. It came close to 38,000 views in five days. A thirteen-day-old Golden Axe clip billed as nightmare fodder, now past 50,000, still brings in a steady stream too.
Old Beavis and Butt-Head, failing at a cheese-tasting job, rounded out the week. Overall the channel ran just under its usual pace and added about a thousand subscribers. Among similar TV channels, RedGreenTV nearly doubled its usual daily views, while Animated held a steady spot in the middle.
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What viewers say
The comments under "among us voting gets INTENSE"
"I wanna go home" same bro
@Confetti-chanSee it on YouTubeGreen is so me when I'm in that kind of situation😭
@lorrainhehe_urmomSee it on YouTubewhoever animated this did a great job
@NehaHeendeniyaSee it on YouTube
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The videos drawing views on Animated right now
- Channel
- Animated
- Subscribers
- 551,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 719,848
- Videos published this week
- 5
- Video published
- September 30, 2026
- Video views so far
- 9,958
- Views on its first day
- 5,066
The numbers
Here is how Animated's week looks in figures.
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Danny Pudi, in the Golden Axe cast, played Abed in which sitcom?
Danny Pudi played Abed Nadir on Community from 2009 to 2015.
