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Daniel Thrasher turns balloon screams into pop music

Hoodie Guy returns with a questionable assignment in Daniel's only new upload, "i wrote these songs on nyquil."

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i wrote these songs on nyquil

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0:00Hoodie Guy presents his pop assignment with a warning that he wrote some tracks while sick and taking NyQuil.
1:05He explains how balloon pops and screams became samples in a four-chord pop instrumental.
1:54The assignment moves into an autotuned emotional rap full of nonsense words.
2:49An air-horn search leads into an integrated sponsored segment starring Daniel.
5:10Duffel-bag zips and footsteps become the ingredients for another dance beat.

The music teacher wants a pop assignment. Hoodie Guy brings a warning about cold medicine, a screaming balloon and an unusually expansive definition of art. Daniel Thrasher plays both sides of the exchange in "i wrote these songs on nyquil," which has reached roughly 546,000 views.

This is a sketch, not an account of Daniel's own medication-fueled recording session. His student character samples balloon pops and screams into a four-chord instrumental, then moves through emotional rap, dance music and the surprisingly useful sound of a duffel bag being unzipped. The teacher's resistance eventually softens into: "I hate that I liked that."

Even the sponsored segment gets a fictional entrance: Hoodie Guy searches for an air horn and encounters an ad starring Daniel. In the comments, viewers connect the assignment to his "songs that already exist" series, with some explaining that those earlier sketches have trained them to expect a recognizable tune underneath every new arrangement. Others want longer versions of these peculiar tracks.

The channel's subscribers stayed level over the week, while daily views are currently well below their usual pace. Nearby sketch channels had varied weeks: BolingBros is enjoying an elevated daily audience, while Elise Ecklund also held steady on subscribers.

Daniel's busiest upload right now remains September's "i dare you to use these," drawing about twice the daily views of the new sketch. "When you accidentally write classics that already exist" is also among his most active videos, keeping the familiar songwriting premise in circulation alongside Hoodie Guy's decidedly less familiar sounds.

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What viewers say

Is that original music?
Ah it was written by hoodie guy, carry on.
@ArisorioSee it on YouTube
This is a weird spinoff to the “songs that already exist” series lol
@camo6465See it on YouTube
I've been pavlonian trained to expect all these songs to exist already, if you just swap the dufflebag for a xylaphone, switch up the key, and slow it down by half...
@ilovefunnyamv2ndSee it on YouTube

5 more comments

So...

Just a normal Daniel Thrasher video?
@Vulpine-l3d9lSee it on YouTube
5:45 why is this actually so good
@jooboo_6808See it on YouTube
1:24 This joke got me way more than it should've
@planetofortsSee it on YouTube
this is so all over the place im crying😭😭
@ilyaskhan6070See it on YouTube
babe wake up igowallah 2.0 dropped
@Fracty1324See it on YouTube

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The facts

Channel: Daniel Thrasher
Subscribers: 5,980,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 6,611,976
Videos published this week: 1
Video published: October 27, 2026
Video views so far: 545,804
Views on its first day: 337,574

The numbers

Here is Daniel Thrasher's week in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

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subscribers

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no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

2,645,995,468

views per day

372,742

typical day: 1,075,029

first-day views of each video posted this week

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subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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As of October 30, 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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