Brandon B's Gemini-assisted Sherlock audition nears 850,000 views, with seven comments

The sponsored detective video kept accelerating after its late start, while its comment section has barely moved.

Channel: Brandon BStory of October 3, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video is running at 598,817 views a day, 23 times its usual pace (25,586).

My audition for the next Sherlock movie…#ad

"My audition for the next Sherlock movie…#ad" is a sponsored video from Brandon B, the visual-effects creator who calls himself a "Hogwarts Dropout" in his channel's about text. Its description sums up the plot in one line: Google Gemini helped him crack the case.

As we reported here, the video spent its first week in near silence and then jumped. It has not slowed since. In the latest day it added roughly 600,000 more views, more than twice the day before, and it is now close to 850,000.

That puts it far ahead of everything else Brandon B has posted lately. His three-part "Abducted for human trials" series, "How it looks vs How it feels" and the newest upload, "Happens to the best of us...😳", all sit in the tens of thousands. The channel as a whole is having a fairly ordinary day, so the Sherlock audition is doing nearly all the work.

The odd thing is how quiet it is underneath. The video has only seven comments, and none arrived in the last day, even as several hundred new likes did. The few comments there mostly talk about the AI in the description: one asks whether leaning on it makes a creator less creative, and another wonders how a channel of 16 million subscribers ends up with so few replies.

The tags place it in the same genre as the rest of his catalog, built around After Effects, Premiere Pro and the kind of illusion editing Zach King made famous.

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The numbers

The numbers show a ten-day-old video suddenly running far ahead of the channel's recent uploads.

views per day, this video

typical day

25,586

now

598,817

subscribers

16,200,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

16,691,054,662

views per day

2,356,313

typical day: 2,484,478

the video

views

845,811

likes

692

comments

7

days online

10

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Luke Davidson

18,200,000

Speed McQueen

16,400,000

Brandon B

16,200,000

Anwar Jibawi

15,600,000

Stromedy

14,300,000

yoangelolo

13,800,000

As of October 3, 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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