Ben Shapiro's episode 2516, on the FlyDubai hijacking attempt, runs twelve times his usual start
The lead story of the Wednesday show drew more in ten hours than the channel's other new uploads combined, and its comments are mostly about the crew.
Ben ShapiroStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 774,231 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (63,747).
Everything We Know About the FlyDubai Hijacking Attempt
A new upload on Ben Shapiro's channel tends to gather around 64,000 views in its whole first day. "Everything We Know About the FlyDubai Hijacking Attempt" passed 460,000 in ten hours, a pace of roughly twelve times that.
It is a full episode of The Ben Shapiro Show, number 2516. Its lead story is the attempt to bring down a FlyDubai flight carrying Israeli passengers. According to the description, the passengers and the pilot stopped it. The second half moves to New York and Zohran Mamdani's newly announced plan to combat antisemitism, which Shapiro covers critically.
The comment section rarely turns to Mamdani. Most viewers write about the people on board: the captain, whom many credit with opening the cockpit door before losing consciousness; a reserve pilot they say got the plane down safely; and the passengers who stepped in. Messages arrive from viewers in both India and Israel, and many wish the captain a full recovery.
The episode is carrying the whole channel. Its daily views are running at more than twice their usual level. Of the other videos posted the same day, a segment on Candace Owens came closest, at about 180,000 views. A clip on the Clancy defense lawyer and "The Good News From the Trump Administration" stayed well below that.
The next day brought something very different. The fourth episode of Shapiro's interview series Titans on Tomorrow features Clay Travis, who talks about building OutKick from a hotel room and launching a new sports media company.
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- Channel
- Ben Shapiro
- Subscribers
- 6,970,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,796,288 (on a normal day: 716,093)
- Video published
- September 30, 2026
- Video views so far
- 459,919 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 774,231
The numbers
The figures show how far a single news episode pulled ahead of what a first day on this channel usually looks like.
