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Captain Disillusion's old hoaxes refuse to retire

His archive-only week brings renewed attention to a Short about the exhausting afterlife of already-debunked videos.

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Captain Disillusion Story of October 29, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Why No Debunks? #shorts

No new uploads. Captain Disillusion's week instead draws on an archive with a particularly fitting complaint: explaining a fake once does not stop it coming back.

In "Why No Debunks? #shorts", the silver-faced skeptic revisits stairwell illusions, marble-sorting footage and an apparent invisibility cloak that keep circulating after his explanations. He even squeezes in another lesson: the cloak effect uses chroma key compositing, while a green line attracting elaborate theories is just an encoding artifact. Technical patience and comic exasperation share the minute.

Posted in 2022, that Short is the busiest of his archive uploads right now. Another returning attraction, "AlBot #vfx #animation #shorts", puts new technology to work on making Intern Alan more efficient. Among regular videos, "CD / Blur", with its credited Ami Yamato cameo, continues to draw viewers too.

The channel added roughly 52,000 views over the week, while its subscriber count stayed unchanged. Daily viewing is now less than half its usual level. Nearby in the science-and-experiments group, Dr Ben Miles and JaDropping Science had much larger weeks and added subscribers; Captain Disillusion's was an archive-sized affair.

The neat irony belongs to the Captain himself: a video explaining his weariness with repeat hoaxes has become a repeat destination.

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The videos drawing views on Captain Disillusion right now

CD / Blur1,413,774 views

AlBot #vfx #animation #shorts5,204,914 views

The facts

Channel: Captain Disillusion
Subscribers: 2,510,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 51,621
Videos published this week: 0

The numbers

Here is how Captain Disillusion's week looks in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

16,165,586

14,705,635

6,381,803

792,038

708,844

459,993

412,144

89,556

51,621

subscribers

2,510,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

280,549,702

views per day

4,232

typical day: 9,201

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

2,770,000

2,750,000

2,650,000

2,510,000

2,510,000

2,400,000

2,370,000

2,260,000

2,230,000

As of October 29, 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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