EricTheCarGuy asks what happened to bent blow guns

A broken workshop tool is the subject of ETCG1's latest upload as the channel draws more than twelve times its usual daily views.

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Why this story? The whole channel is running at 101,498 views a day, 12 times a normal day (8,120).

This Is Why I Can’t Have Nice Things

ETCG1 is getting an unusually large amount of attention for a channel devoted to the less glamorous side of fixing cars: roughly 100,000 views in a day. Its latest subject is not a spectacular engine failure or an expensive new machine. EricTheCarGuy broke his blow gun.

In "This Is Why I Can't Have Nice Things", posted Monday, the compressed-air tool becomes a question about design and availability. Eric wonders why bent blow guns seem to have disappeared, while leaving room for the possibility that there is a reason he doesn't know about.

The upload sits neatly beside "The Chaos Factor", his previous video about the broken bolts, unavailable parts and other complications that turn a repair into a longer, more frustrating job. Here, the troublesome item is the tool itself.

The channel-wide viewing jump coincides with the blow-gun upload, though that alone doesn't establish how much of the increase it supplied. What makes the subject particularly ETCG1 is the focus: Eric calls this his philosophical channel, a place for the working life around auto repair rather than just the repair instructions.

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The videos drawing views on ETCG1 right now

The Chaos Factor12,244 views · 2026-10-26 Should I Be Worried About This?24,141 views · 2026-10-19 The End of an Era For Pittsburgh Auto Repair20,997 views · 2026-10-12 The Curse of the Master Technician57,667 views · 2026-10-05

The numbers

Daily views are far above ETCG1's usual pace. The increase has not been accompanied by a reported subscriber gain.

views per day, whole channel

typical day

8,120

now

101,498

subscribers

226,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

38,236,546

views per day

101,498

typical day: 8,120

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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234,000

The Car Edition Ltd

233,000

Mercedes Lounge

232,000

Yorkshire Car Restoration

230,000

Benny Surge

227,000

ETCG1

226,000

As of November 5, 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.