Gabi Jones wants to know where the whale buses went
Her vintage-future sketch approaches three million views, pairing Edwardian expectations with robot-vacuum reality.
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.
These are 100% REAL predictions made by Jean-Marc Côté in 1899 for the year 2000! #skit
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A Roomba that gets stuck under the couch is a disappointing answer to the promise of automatic housekeeping. Gabi Jones makes that gap between expectation and reality the engine of her most-watched new sketch, playing both an elaborately dressed woman from the past and her modern-day counterpart.
Drawing on Jean-Marc Côté's illustrated predictions for the year 2000, the conversation gives modern technology a slightly awkward audition. Moving pictures and sound? FaceTime exists, though people don't dress for the occasion. Personal flying machines? Private jets are rather less accessible than the historical visitor hoped. And whale buses? That omission is particularly hard for her to accept.
The sketch has reached roughly 2.9 million views and carries the channel's strongest daily momentum. Viewers are discussing the whale transport above all: some offer submarines as a technical substitute, while others bring up medical advances and sanitation as achievements worth mentioning.
Jones posted six uploads across the week, ranging from 1980s childhood and changing dating standards to classroom note-passing. There was also a clearly labeled jewelry ad. The note-passing sketch is now drawing fresh views at almost the same daily pace as her several-weeks-old 1940s upload.
Across the channel, daily views are comfortably above their usual level, and the week brought about 10,000 additional subscribers. Among nearby-sized sketch channels, Sophia & Noelle and Colby Martel had particularly large viewing weeks; Jones's weekly audience was close to Carisa Hendrix & Lucy Darling's. Her own most effective time machine this week needed only two characters, a phone and a deeply unreasonable transport expectation.
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What viewers say
I thought I was educated in vintage stuff but I've never heard of a whale bus 😭🙏
@yeonjun.glazerৎSee it on YouTubeshe really took personal offense to the lack of whale buses
@AmeliaYakulSee it on YouTubeTechnically submarines are whale buses 😅
@dear3stmashkaSee it on YouTube
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Sadly, being shot across the country by pneumatic tube neve r quite caught on either.
@kateg7298See it on YouTubeI love the whale bus and none of my friends ever know what I'm talking about when I mentioned we were supposed to have whale buses, instead of saying we were supposed to have flying cars by now because we do now have flying cars
@catsinmycradle6315See it on YouTubeThe accentsss😂😂😂❤❤
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The videos drawing views on Gabi Jones right now
1980s kids what did I forget?! 🤔 #skit #1980s #comedycreator #skit879,621 views · 2026-11-07
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- Channel
- Gabi Jones
- Subscribers
- 1,510,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 20,174,546
- Videos published this week
- 6
- Video published
- November 9, 2026
- Video views so far
- 2,855,137
- Views on its first day
- 911,926
The numbers
Here is how Gabi Jones's week looks in views and subscribers.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which imagined form of transport does Gabi's historical character particularly want?
The historical character asks about whale buses and prefers the idea to modern food delivery.


