A closet nap and an exploding can: Arthur Frederick's bad-day reel takes off
His new compilation passed a hundred thousand views in ten hours, while the shorter uploads around it sit at a couple of thousand each.
Arthur FrederickStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 175,206 views a day, 67 times a normal first day on this channel (2,627).
The Kind of Bad Day You Have When You're Already Overstimulated
Among the reaction channels closest to Arthur Frederick in size, his is running furthest above its own normal daily pace, and much of that lift comes from a single upload posted on Tuesday.
"The Kind of Bad Day You Have When You're Already Overstimulated" is the ArthurTV format at full length: more than twenty minutes of strangers' worst moments, with Arthur talking over every one of them. The comments work as a map of the clips. A leasing agent opens a closet and finds a maintenance man trying to sneak a nap, and one viewer who used to do that job explains why she reacts the way she does. Someone trips, a can bursts, and Arthur's one-breath narration of the mess is being repeated back to him. There are swooping birds, which Australian viewers put down to nesting season, a wasp nest, a dating outfit and a tray table that tips at the worst moment. A clip of a grandmother has drawn the longest reply threads, mostly from people who found it hard to watch.
The usual first day for a new video here is a couple of thousand views, and that is roughly where his other uploads from the same days sit: a Deontay Wilder clip, a woman who faked a medical degree, a traffic reporter catching a crash live on air. The exception is a deep dive titled "Scammer Caught Scamming: Fake NFL Player Scams 26 Women," which has passed 150,000 views since the weekend. The new compilation got further in ten hours.
Perhaps the title simply describes a lot of people's week. One of the most liked comments comes from a viewer reporting exactly that kind of day. The most liked of all, though, ignores the clips entirely: a petition for Arthur to take off his cap and show up with his hair slicked back.
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What viewers say
Petition to have a vid where Arthur removes the cap and has a slickback
@BBates-jk1oqSee it on YouTubewhat a coincidence, i am having a bad day and am extremely overstimulated lmao
@rubywalsh02See it on YouTube4:32 first time trying fish and chips❌️
First time at a beach✔️@editing_fanaticSee it on YouTube
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- Channel
- Arthur Frederick
- Subscribers
- 756,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 283,505 (on a normal day: 199,570)
- Video published
- September 30, 2026
- Video views so far
- 102,716 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 175,206
The numbers
The figures beside this story show one long compilation lifting the whole channel above its normal pace.
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