A hand-built New York in miniature, and Austin Sweatt's viewers spot the Twin Towers
His short on a scale model of the city drew twice the likes of a usual first day within ten hours, and its comments read like a city planning meeting.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 632,174 views a day, 6.5 times a normal first day on this channel (97,622).
Insane New York Replica
A city, shrunk down. "Insane New York Replica" is Austin Sweatt's latest short, and it passed 375,000 views in its first ten hours. That is several times what his shorts usually manage in a full day, and it arrived on a day when the channel as a whole was running below its normal pace.
Sweatt is a commentary creator who usually reacts to the internet's oddities: streamer fails, chaotic Discord calls, a hitman who hired a hitman. This time the subject is a patient piece of craft, a model of New York detailed enough that viewers are hunting for landmarks.
The comment section filled faster than usual, and it is busy. Many viewers stop on the Twin Towers, still standing in the model, and take them as a sign of how long the builder has been at it. Others do the math on the claim, repeated in the comments, of more than a million buildings over 21 years, and work out that it would mean well over a hundred buildings a day. One viewer says they could see their own house. Another wants it set into a museum floor so people could walk over it.
The same day, his "Hilarious Discord Situation" short, posted four days earlier, went past a million views.
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What viewers say
This man’s talent to replicate the buildings with so much detail is incredible. This is the type of art I enjoy.
@cadebecker2486See it on YouTubeThe fact that I could see my house is crazy
@CookiemanmilkSee it on YouTubeBro I can't finish a simple drawing because of burnout, meanwhile this dude dedicating more time than some of my cousins have been alive. Props.
@JazzydergSee it on YouTube
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The detail is extraordinary for that size.
@fahiraellaSee it on YouTubeIf there's over a million buildings that means he makes 130 buildings every day for 21 years at minimum. That's five an hour every hour for 21 years
@mattg4836See it on YouTubethat should go in the ground in a museum so people can look at all parts by walking above it
@EneVappySee it on YouTubenew york in new york
@yoyoopieSee it on YouTubeNow that's dedication right there.
@nayadadedjouma8490See it on YouTubeMe and every Godzilla stop motion YouTuber: I.... have...an... IDEA!
@Godzilla4life-l3oSee it on YouTube
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- Channel
- Austin Sweatt
- Subscribers
- 510,000 ▲ 2,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 12,741,055
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,112,305 (on a normal day: 1,811,067)
- Video published
- October 7, 2026
- Video views so far
- 375,478 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 632,174
The numbers
A short that ran far ahead of its usual start, on a day the rest of the channel was quieter.
💡 Test your knowledge
The Empire State Building, a centerpiece of almost any New York skyline model, opened in which year?
The Empire State Building opened on May 1, 1931, after a construction run of little more than a year.
