The Most "Normal" GTA Game: Any Austin's newest passes a million in a day

One long video and one merch short made the week, and three of the channel's busiest videos are now all Grand Theft Auto.

Channel: Any AustinStory of October 2, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

The Most "Normal" GTA Game

Any Austin went looking for the most "normal" game in the Grand Theft Auto series, and the question found a crowd fast. The new video passed 1.2 million views in its first 24 hours and was near a million and a half by its second day. The scare quotes in the title do some work: this is a channel that bills itself, with a straight face, as the worst video game shows on the internet.

The video's credits list a small team: Austin up front, with Ashlyn K on operations, William H as lead editor, Luke D as creative associate and Sadie W on art and assets. The only other upload was a short, posted on September 25, announcing a last day to order merch before it is gone.

The new video joins a GTA run that is still moving. "GTA5 Has Rivers You've Never Seen," a month old, has passed 7.6 million views and keeps drawing viewers every day. "GTA: San Andreas Really Takes You Places," a road trip built to test whether San Andreas really is the best game in the series, is close behind it in daily pull at nearly three months old. Perhaps the newcomers from the latest video will drift back to both.

Across the whole channel, daily views ran a bit under the usual level. Among the gaming commentary channels near its size, that is a common picture: Max0r and Iron Pineapple are quieter than usual too, while Digital Foundry is having a busier stretch.

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The videos drawing views on Any Austin right now

ONLY ONE DAY LEFT TO ORDER MERCH BEFORE IT'S GONE #unemployment #gami…121,679 views · 2026-09-25 GTA5 Has Rivers You've Never Seen7,693,968 views GTA: San Andreas Really Takes You Places3,312,701 views

The numbers

Here is how Any Austin's channel and its GTA videos stand this week.

subscribers

1,590,000

total views

183,911,124

views per day

218,722

typical day: 280,250

this week's videos (first-day views)

The Most "Normal" GTA Game

1,225,203

ONLY ONE DAY LEFT TO ORDER MERCH BEFORE…

63,412

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Super Eyepatch Wolf

1,840,000

CZsWorld

1,840,000

Iron Pineapple

1,690,000

Any Austin

1,590,000

Max0r

1,570,000

Digital Foundry

1,530,000

The Completionist

1,380,000

Honest Game Trailers

1,350,000

GameTrailers

1,330,000

As of October 2, 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.

Where next?

Also in Gaming news, reviews and commentaryThis week on the channel 6 videos this weekQSSR, Sony's surprise upscaler for the base PS5, lands on Digital FoundryRich and Oliver compared it with PSSR using Marvel's Wolverine, in a week that also brought Gears of War: E-Day and Control Resonant.Channel: Digital Foundry · Story of October 2, 2026 A different discovery todayVideo surging 260,921 views per dayJessica Watkins' Crew-13 launch replay carries half of VideoFromSpace's dayThe full NASA broadcast from Cape Canaveral drew a quarter of a million views, and a docking clip followed with a time NASA's description calls a US record.Channel: VideoFromSpace · Story of October 2, 2026