An AI developer in Michael Blaustein's crowd, and viewers with follow-up questions

The comedian's newest crowd-work Short has its comment section asking what the man actually builds, and whether he answered at all.

Channel: Michael Blaustein Story of October 9, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 432,952 views a day, 17 times a normal first day on this channel (26,042).

AI DEVELOPER REVEALS SECRET! 😳 #standupcomedy

Michael Blaustein's crowd work runs on one simple question: what do you do? In his newest Short, the answer from the audience is a job almost everyone has an opinion about. The man says he works in AI development, and the clip, billed as "AI DEVELOPER REVEALS SECRET!", passed 240,000 views within nine hours of going up on October 8. That is far beyond the usual first day for one of Blaustein's Shorts.

The title promises a secret, but the comment section is more interested in the man himself. The most liked comments wonder whether he was dodging the questions, and many read his work as having to do with voices and audio editing. That sends the thread toward cloned voices and phone scams. Others go straight to science fiction. One viewer brings up Roko's Basilisk, the internet thought experiment about a future AI, and gives it Blaustein's name. The comments came in about four times faster than on a usual first day for his Shorts.

The rest of the channel is having a slower day than usual, which makes this clip stand out even more. It arrives on the eve of a busy weekend. The channel's about text says Blaustein is live-streaming his whole crowd-work show from Boston on October 10, the start of a run of dates through Providence, Virginia, Arizona and Texas, ending in Toronto in December.

The week had already given his viewers plenty to watch. There was a full 27-minute show about a divorce settlement, a Short asking whether Mark Cuban had turned up to his set, and a Plan-B guessing game. The AI developer is the one people stopped to argue about.

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The numbers

One Short moved well ahead of everything else on a channel that was otherwise running a little below its usual pace.

the video's first day

usual first day here

26,042

this video

432,952

subscribers

1,620,000

▲ 20,000 in the last 7 days

total views

1,228,699,706

views per day

2,625,663

typical day: 3,654,712

the video

views

240,811

likes

9,504

comments

148

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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1,620,000

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1,570,000

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1,530,000

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1,500,000

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1,390,000

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1,360,000

As of October 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

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