Video taking off 12x its usual first day

'Conceal Don't Feel': Disney's silhouette Frozen hides Anna from Elsa

The animation adapts a Twisted Tale novel, and the comments are split between viewers who say it barely strays from the film and viewers who want a whole series.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 73,859 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (6,397).

Conceal Don't Feel | A Frozen Twisted Tales AnimationConceal Don't Feel | A Frozen Twisted Tales Animation

Anna, hidden from Elsa. That is the single change behind "Conceal Don't Feel | A Frozen Twisted Tales Animation," and the description puts it as a question: what if Elsa never knew she had a sister, and Anna was kept out of sight? Disney calls the result a darker retelling of Frozen, told through silhouettes rather than the film's familiar computer animation.

The short is based on A Twisted Tale, the best-selling book series that reimagines Disney films by changing one turn of the plot. This volume, Jen Calonita's Conceal, Don't Feel, takes its title from the advice young Elsa hears in the 2013 film. Four studios share the production credit: Wild Comet Media, Lucy Animation Studio, Formidable Studio and Animales del Sur.

It passed 85,000 views in its first day and a half. A new video on this channel usually opens with a few thousand.

The comments are a lively argument. The most liked one sums the story up as the original film with a memory wipe added, and several viewers agree that much of it follows Frozen scene by scene. Others read it closely. One traces how Hans, with no Anna to court, spends years winning Elsa's trust instead and turns to Anna once he learns she exists. A few readers of the novel remember it fondly, and a steady chorus asks for a Disney+ series, pointing to Marvel's own "What If...?"

The channel kept the idea going the next day with a short built on the same question. It sits beside a month of Frozen material on the channel, including the making-of documentary for Frozen 2, which is currently free to watch there for a limited time.

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The facts
Channel
Disney
Subscribers
6,770,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
5,688,404
Channel views, pace per day
691,809 (on a normal day: 854,176)
Video published
October 5, 2026
Video views so far
85,008 (2 days online)
Video views, pace per day
73,859

The numbers

A silhouette short drew a crowd this channel rarely sees for a new upload.

the video's first day
usual first day here
6,397
this video
73,859
subscribers
6,770,000
▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days
total views
1,621,943,134
views per day
691,809
typical day: 854,176
the video
views
85,008
likes
3,581
comments
152
days online
2
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
Pixar
9,110,000
Disney
6,770,000
Walt Disney Animation Stu…
6,350,000
Wu Tang Collection
5,440,000
DC
5,220,000
ONE Media
5,170,000
As of October 7, 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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