Police, self-defense and two answers that clash: Clyde Do Something's 'They Just Don't Get It'
A reaction Short with a title that keeps its subject to itself has its comment section working out the contradiction, while a second Short from the same day also ran far ahead.
Clyde Do Something
Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 341,966 views a day, 8.6 times a normal first day on this channel (39,771).
They Just Don't Get It 😭💀
Who are "they," and what don't they get? The title of Clyde Do Something's newest Short, "They Just Don't Get It 😭💀," keeps both answers to itself, so the comment section supplies them. Viewers describe a clip of two people talking about the police and about protecting yourself. The moment they keep returning to is a pair of statements that came one right after the other and, by most accounts underneath, point in opposite directions. From there the conversation turns to gun rights.
It is moving fast. The Short passed 200,000 views in about ten hours, where one of his Shorts usually ends its whole first day near 40,000. The comments ran ahead too: more than 600 by then, about three times what a Short here usually collects in a full day. It also had company. "Doctors & Engineers 😭," posted the same day, went past 100,000 views in eight hours.
The channel describes him as a mechanic and a political and current-events commentator, and the longer videos show which subject has been on his mind. Canada keeps coming back. One recent video covers calls in Canada to nationalize industries as manufacturing heads south during the trade dispute with Donald Trump, and another picks up Trump's line that he doesn't need Canada for steel, aluminum or cars. The reaction Shorts are the quicker, lighter half of that output, and for now they draw the bigger crowds.
Most political commentary channels near his size are running below their usual pace right now. Clyde Do Something is running above his.
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- Channel
- Clyde Do Something
- Subscribers
- 276,000 ▲ 3,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 9,551,456
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,436,148 (on a normal day: 1,162,614)
- Video published
- October 7, 2026
- Video views so far
- 209,652 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 341,966
The numbers
Two Shorts posted on the same day both started well ahead of what this channel's Shorts usually manage. Here is how far.
💡 Test your knowledge
Canada's car industry, part of the trade dispute in Clyde Do Something's recent videos, is concentrated mainly in which province?
Canada's major car assembly plants are clustered in southern Ontario, in cities such as Windsor, Oshawa, Oakville and Cambridge.
