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Video taking off 8.8x its usual first day

Austin Sweatt revisits the giant pumpkin that swallowed an officer

His "Temu Pumpkin Disaster" retelling passes a million views in ten hours, with viewers imagining the decoration as a hungry monster.

No. 49 on the daily chart

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,700,431 views a day, 8.8 times a normal first day on this channel (192,756).

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The decoration towers over the houses. Then it disappears from the yard, and Austin Sweatt cuts to dashcam footage of a giant inflatable pumpkin rolling straight into a police officer.

"Temu Pumpkin Disaster" revisits an older viral spectacle rather than a fresh emergency. Sweatt frames it as an online-shopping size mistake: someone wanted a pumpkin and ended up with something considerably harder to keep in its place.

His retelling links the yard footage to a follow-up post announcing that the decoration has vanished, then to a news clip showing an officer engulfed by orange inflatable fabric on a dark street. The dashcam sequence carries a Bay Village Police Department credit.

The Short has passed a million views in ten hours, already well beyond the channel's usual full-day audience for the format. In the comments, viewers give the pumpkin an appetite, compare the scene to Goosebumps and killer-tomato movies, and invoke Linus's Great Pumpkin.

Another Sweatt upload, "Endless Cruise Just Ended 🤦🏻‍♂️", has also crossed a million views. But the pumpkin gives this retelling its unusually literal payoff: the missing decoration turns up on the news, with an officer caught underneath it.

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What viewers say

3 more comments
  • This is the great pumpkin Linus talked about.
    Happy Halloween everyone!
    @elijahallison122See it on YouTube
  • I remember seeing the video of the officer getting swallowed by the pumpkin and years later I finally learn why there was a giant pumpkin
    @kawaibakanekoSee it on YouTube
  • Pumpkin: Boi I am hungry
    Officer
    Pumpkin: Hmmm yummy
    @CristoferRivera-j1m8ySee it on YouTube

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The facts
Subscribers
520,000 ▲ 3,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
27,273,122
Channel views, pace per day
1,074,823 (on a normal day: 3,862,627)
Video published
October 31, 2026
Video views so far
1,065,281 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
1,700,431

The numbers

The pumpkin Short has already surpassed Austin Sweatt's usual first-day views, with much of its first day still to go.

the video's first day
usual first day here
192,756
this video
1,700,431
subscribers
520,000
▲ 3,000 in the last 7 days
total views
2,071,966,541
views per day
1,074,823
typical day: 3,862,627
the video
views
1,065,281
likes
54,426
comments
321
days online
1
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
Pinely
592,000
TpindellTV
556,000
Donna
552,000
As of November 1, 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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