Video taking off 36x its usual first day

Back to 'The day we first met!' as Cadel and Mia move into a furnished home

A short story time about how the couple first crossed paths outran everything else from a busy Saturday, and the comments keep pointing at the same thing: where Cadel is looking.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 7,123,724 views a day, 36 times a normal first day on this channel (199,721).

The day we first met! 🥰🥹 who wants a story time? #nostalgia #coupleThe day we first met! 🥰🥹 who wants a story time? #nostalgia #couple

More than thirty million subscribers into their channel, Cadel and Mia went back to the very beginning. "The day we first met!" is a short story time, tagged #nostalgia, about how the couple first crossed paths. It passed four and a half million views in its first eleven hours, far more than one of their uploads usually gathers in a whole day.

It went up on a crowded Saturday. The same day brought dance shorts set to the Stereo Love and Ela Peida funk trends, a beach date credited as inspired by Brooke Monk, a spider scare, and most of them also ran well ahead of a normal start. The closest to the first-meeting story, a dance clip titled "THIS WASN'T EASY TO FILM," moved at a little more than half its pace.

The comment section has one favorite subject: the way Cadel keeps his eyes on Mia, back then and now. Plenty of viewers are also counting up how long the two have known each other.

The channel kept the speed of recent days, adding around 100,000 subscribers a day, several times its usual rate. The about text names the target plainly: 50 million. And on the same Saturday the couple posted a much longer video, a tour of the furnished house they call their dream home, which the description says they still can't believe is theirs.

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The facts
Subscribers
30,600,000 ▲ 300,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
612,287,203
Channel views, pace per day
149,421,467 (on a normal day: 59,406,229)
Video published
October 3, 2026
Video views so far
4,728,089 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
7,123,724

The numbers

The numbers show a short that ran far ahead of the channel's usual first day, on a day when several other uploads did too.

the video's first day
usual first day here
199,721
this video
7,123,724
subscribers
30,600,000
▲ 300,000 in the last 7 days
total views
78,367,326,488
views per day
149,421,467
typical day: 59,406,229
the video
views
4,728,089
likes
49,044
comments
576
days online
1
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
Jasmin and James
42,500,000
The Royalty Family
35,900,000
ZHC
30,800,000
Cadel and Mia
30,600,000
Rebecca Zamolo
23,400,000
FunnyMike
14,400,000
As of October 4, 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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