Fifteen shorts, a Min-Maxed season and a pocket hammer for Bensei
Between meteor hammer trickshots credited to his viewers, Bensei teased Season 2 of the tabletop show Min-Maxed.
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Jacob. This is S I C K🤯 #benseiarmy #meteorhammer #martialarts
Fifteen uploads went out on instructor_bensei this week, and almost all of them circle the same object: a weight on a chain, swung by a man whose about page sums up his whole craft as bonking things with a rock.
The short addressed to Jacob, which we wrote about here on Saturday, kept going and is now past 460,000 views. Viewers are still talking about the switch in the middle, where Bensei calls the strike beautiful, pauses, and corrects himself to ugly. They are also talking about how small the weapon is (a pocket hammer, several of them say, and a new fear) and asking to see it against a bigger block of ice.
A good part of the week was built with the audience. One short invites viewers to guess who made a weapon, with a pinned comment as the prize. Another thanks @Tmort5ge for an entry, and another credits a trickshot to General Jack, the title Bensei gives his Patreon supporters. Away from the chain, two shorts point to Min-Maxed, the tabletop RPG show, with Season 2 apparently close enough to set off a panicked "WHAT DO YOU MEAN TOMORROW?!?!"
The channel's daily views ran a little under its usual pace. It still added about three million views over the week, second only to Paulina Roquett among similar channels, whose own week was in another league altogether. The newest shorts are already moving fast: "It's... it's literally a 🪨👀", posted a day ago, keeps the rock joke going.
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What viewers say
This is beautiful.
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*This is UGLY.*
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Edit: I didn't expect the popularity of this.@ShoyroSee it on YouTubeDude transitioned from an elf to a dwarf in under THREE SECONDS 😭😭😭
@DaiGurrenLagannSee it on YouTubePocket hammer..... New fear unlocked
@oCorruptsSee it on YouTube
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The videos drawing views on instructor_bensei right now
Who made this? If you're right I'll pin it. #benseiarmy #trickshot #m…181,551 views · 2026-10-02
... WHAT DO YOU MEAN TOMORROW?!?!😱😱😱 #benseiarmy #ttrpg #minmaxed103,614 views · 2026-10-03
@Tmort5ge Thank you so much for the entry!! #benseiarmy #meteorhammer59,954 views · 2026-10-05
Ready for Season 2 of@Min-Maxed-RPG??? #benseiarmy #minmaxed #ttrpg41,448 views · 2026-10-04
Like this trickshot? Thank General Jack! #benseiarmy #trickshot #mete…36,477 views · 2026-10-04
It's... it's literally a 🪨👀 #benseiarmy #meteorhammer #martialarts20,683 views
Wanna make me crash out at 10:30am? Become a patreon General. #bensei…14,797 views
- Channel
- instructor_bensei
- Subscribers
- 621,000 ▲ 2,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 3,068,815
- Videos published this week
- 15
- Video published
- October 3, 2026
- Video views so far
- 462,157
- Views on its first day
- 254,843
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