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Austin Sweatt revisits Musk's jet-tracking dispute with Jack Sweeney

The fast-starting Short recounts a rejected offer, a Tesla counterproposal and the account's eventual removal from Twitter.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,029,020 views a day, 5.8 times a normal first day on this channel (178,480).

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A Tesla Model 3 was one proposed price for making the jet-tracking account disappear. Austin Sweatt's Short returns to Jack Sweeney's exchange with Elon Musk, turning an argument over publicly available flight information into a compact internet-history story.

"Elon Musk's Biggest Enemy" passed half a million views in nine hours, already well beyond Sweatt's usual full-day audience for Shorts. The comments were also busier than a typical first day before that day was close to complete.

Sweatt recounts how Musk offered Sweeney money to stop posting his private jet's movements. Sweeney countered with a larger payment or the car. Using photos, archival clips and screenshots of their messages, the host explains that the account attracted a substantial audience while Musk raised concerns about his safety.

The Short ends by juxtaposing the unsuccessful negotiation with Musk's later purchase of Twitter and the tracking account's ban. It's a punchline built around the scale of those two transactions, not evidence that the account prompted the acquisition.

Sweatt's surrounding uploads range from MrBeast's car to GTA 6. Here, the hook is an earlier collision between a platform owner and someone using its reach.

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The facts
Subscribers
525,000 ▲ 3,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
17,991,981
Channel views, pace per day
1,565,068 (on a normal day: 3,256,499)
Video published
November 14, 2026
Video views so far
547,409 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
1,029,020

The numbers

The Short has already exceeded Austin Sweatt's usual first-day views and comments, despite being only nine hours into release.

the video's first day
usual first day here
178,480
this video
1,029,020
subscribers
525,000
▲ 3,000 in the last 7 days
total views
2,116,329,962
views per day
1,565,068
typical day: 3,256,499
the video
views
547,409
likes
33,256
comments
538
days online
1
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
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556,000
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552,000
As of November 15, 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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