'WTF 💀': Ben Shapiro's short sends viewers back to Hitler's pact with Stalin
The title names no one, but the comment section makes plain that the clip is about Tucker Carlson, and its conversation ran far ahead of its audience.
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Story of Why this story? The video drew 533 comments in its first day, 5.9 times a normal first day on this channel (90).
WTF 💀
Ben Shapiro gave this short the vaguest possible title, two letters short of a full sentence and a skull emoji. The people who watched it were not vague at all. Within a day they had left more than 500 comments, close to six times what one of his shorts usually draws in its first 24 hours, while the views stayed in the ordinary range.
The title does not say who is in the clip, but the comments do. Nearly all of them are about Tucker Carlson, and about something said in the clip about Hitler and his stated wish not to fight. Viewers answer with history: the most common reply points to the non-aggression pact Hitler signed with the Soviet Union in 1939, and several note that he invaded his neighbors while saying such things. Others bring up an earlier Carlson take on the United States and Japan in the Second World War, and a few drag JD Vance into the thread.
The short follows a full episode in which Shapiro took on Carlson's own show, Russia and Hitler included, as we reported here. That longer argument now has a few seconds of shorthand, and that is where the audience chose to talk. It went up beside a busy run of uploads, from a rundown on a Russian plague outbreak to an explainer on what Shapiro calls a global conservative wave.
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- Channel
- Ben Shapiro
- Subscribers
- 6,970,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 9,571,114
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,525,346 (on a normal day: 907,123)
- Video published
- October 5, 2026
- Video views so far
- 103,670 (2 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 31,806 (on a normal day: 126,095)
The numbers
Here is how the short's first day compares with the channel's usual start for a short, alongside the whole channel's current pace.
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In which year did Nazi Germany break its pact with the Soviet Union by launching Operation Barbarossa?
Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, less than two years after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed.
