Ben Schmanke trades leaf blowers for five Ryobi fans and 27 balls

His follow-up to a smaller blower test, posted two days earlier, now has more views than any of his recent phone comparisons.

Channel: AuthenTech - Ben Schmanke Story of October 8, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video is running at 45,175 views a day, 7.7 times its usual pace (5,879).

27 Balls vs 5 RYOBI Fans

Ben Schmanke built AuthenTech on phones: zoom tests, portrait tricks, flagship cameras side by side. The video moving fastest on his channel right now has none of that. It is "27 Balls vs 5 RYOBI Fans," a sequel that raises the count in both directions.

The first round went up on September 29 as "16 Balls vs 3 RYOBI Blowers," with a basketball emoji in the title. Two days later came the bigger version: more balls, more tools, and fans in place of blowers. It had a modest first day, then picked up pace a week in, and it is now past 85,000 views. That is several times what his late-September iPhone, Galaxy and Pixel comparisons have gathered so far.

The comment section is tiny, just a couple of lines. One viewer jokes about being blown away by the price.

The timing stands out because the channel as a whole is running below its usual daily pace, and so are most of the tech channels near its size. Inside that slower stretch, Schmanke's garage-tool experiments are doing the work. The same week also brought "$5 Scissors vs $59 Power Cutter," which is ahead of the phone tests too. For a reviewer who usually lives by camera samples, a pile of balls and some Ryobi fans is a new kind of hit.

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The numbers

A week-old stunt video is now drawing several times its usual daily views, even while the channel overall runs quieter than normal.

views per day, this video

typical day

5,879

now

45,175

subscribers

2,730,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

4,385,047,959

views per day

699,218

typical day: 1,164,390

the video

views

85,777

likes

424

comments

2

days online

7

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

HTX Studio

2,950,000

Salem Techsperts

2,810,000

Hayls World

2,740,000

AuthenTech - Ben Schmanke

2,730,000

Gamers Nexus

2,720,000

ShortCircuit

2,550,000

As of October 8, 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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