Video taking off 15x its usual first day

Freshlol's "glitched helmet" is really a cursed Minecraft pumpkin

His fast-starting Short turns Curse of Binding into a helmet-switch prank, while viewers point out a way around the obstructed view.

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Freshlol Story of October 27, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 464,173 views a day, 15 times a normal first day on this channel (30,355).

The BEST Enchant is a CURSE

RunitKid takes off his diamond helmet because Freshlol promises something better: a glitched replacement with every kind of protection. The dispenser beside him has a different gift ready.

In "The BEST Enchant is a CURSE", Freshlol makes the case for Minecraft's Curse of Binding by turning it against a friend. On ordinary armor, the enchantment prevents removal, but the equipment can eventually wear out. A carved pumpkin has no durability to exhaust. Put the curse on that, and the wearer is stuck looking through its cutout face.

The demonstration becomes a prank in what Freshlol describes as RunitKid's long-running hardcore world. Once the dispenser equips the pumpkin, RunitKid realizes what has happened. "It's a hardcore world, I can't take this off!" he says as Freshlol flees.

The Short drew about 370,000 views in its first 15 hours, already far beyond the channel's usual full-day Shorts audience. Its comment section was also several times busier than a typical first day.

For a creator whose recent uploads have pursued god-tier spears and maces, this is a much simpler piece of equipment doing the damage. Viewers offer a practical counterpoint: resource packs can hide the pumpkin's obstructive overlay. That doesn't remove the cursed item, but it does take away the prank's most visible nuisance.

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What viewers say

I have resource pack that makes the pumpkin vision thing not visible so it just deletes the use of helmets forever for me
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im so early u could say that i watched this Fresh,lol
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Singleplayer curses sitting in the corner
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