A $600 asking price and a 'hot dog' send Digital Doctor's counter short past a million

The Manahawkin, New Jersey repair shop put up fifteen videos in seven days and added about 40,000 subscribers.

Channel: Digital Doctor Story of October 4, 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.

WANTED HOW MUCH?!? 😭 #smartphone #problemfix #brokenfix #tech #pov #pcbuild #screenbreak

Among the tech channels nearest its size, Digital Doctor gathered by far the most views of the week, about 44 million, roughly nine times what The Studio drew in second place. That is the normal rhythm here rather than a spike: the repair shop on Route 72 in Manahawkin, New Jersey, runs at close to six million views a day, and this week sat right on its usual pace.

The short that did the most work is "WANTED HOW MUCH?!? 😭", a counter scene in which a customer tries to sell a device to the shop for more than it is worth. It passed a million views in three days. The comments read like a replay of the haggle: viewers keep returning to the moment he adds "and call it a day" as if that sweetened the deal, ask why anyone would expect a store to pay above market price, and trade a running joke about a reply that sounds like "hot dog." Several also guess the shop's offer dropped because of the ask.

Fifteen uploads went up in all, mostly the usual mix of cracked screens, fresh protectors and a dusty PS5 that, per its title, was running "hella hot." The outlier is a longer upload, "PRESSING CHARGES AGAINST MY LANDLORD...!!!", whose title is its only clue, and it drew more than 170,000 views on its first day. A one-day-old protector install for an iPhone 18 Pro is already among the channel's busiest videos.

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The videos drawing views on Digital Doctor right now

PRESSING CHARGES AGAINST MY LANDLORD...!!!217,923 views · 2026-10-02 DUSTY PS5 GETS “HELLA HOT”🥵 #smartphone #problemfix #gaming #pov #cl…143,013 views · 2026-10-02 THEY WANTED TO BE IN VIDEO‼️ #smartphone #problemfix #brokenfix #fix …121,895 views · 2026-10-02 9 YEAR OLD DROPPED PHONE!!! #smartphone #problemfix #automobile #brok…95,042 views · 2026-10-01 SCREEN PROTECTOR FOR GOOGLE PIXEL!!!! #smartphone #problemfix #broken…94,265 views · 2026-10-02 QUICK PROTECTOR INSTALL FOR IPHONE 18 PRO!! #smartphone #problemfix #…41,896 views

The numbers

Here is how Digital Doctor's week looks in numbers.

views gained this week, compared with similar channels

Digital Doctor

44,070,797

The Studio

4,889,321

Karl Conrad

4,234,688

Hardware Unboxed

1,305,210

WULFF DEN

944,241

iDeviceHelp

750,567

bigclivedotcom

731,124

Jeff Geerling

613,639

Hugh Jeffreys

321,953

subscribers

1,100,000

▲ 40,000 in the last 7 days

total views

848,534,165

views per day

5,892,266

typical day: 5,821,287

this week's videos (first-day views)

WANTED HOW MUCH?!? 😭 #smartphone #prob…

552,813

PRESSING CHARGES AGAINST MY LANDLORD...…

175,398

DUSTY PS5 GETS “HELLA HOT”🥵 #smartphon…

107,404

THEY WANTED TO BE IN VIDEO‼️ #smartphon…

76,979

9 YEAR OLD DROPPED PHONE!!! #smartphone…

65,178

SCREEN PROTECTOR FOR GOOGLE PIXEL!!!! #…

79,148

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Hardware Unboxed

1,170,000

The Studio

1,160,000

bigclivedotcom

1,130,000

Digital Doctor

1,100,000

Jeff Geerling

1,090,000

iDeviceHelp

1,060,000

Karl Conrad

1,010,000

Hugh Jeffreys

1,000,000

WULFF DEN

988,000

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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