Dylan Novak's mom gives him a buzz cut, and the comments start rating it

Viewers are split between missing his curls and liking the short new look, and a follow-up short already asks whether the cut was a mistake.

Channel: Dylan NovakStory of October 5, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video drew 722 comments in its first day, 7 times a normal first day on this channel (103).

shoutout my mom for getting me right🤝 #hair #haircut #hairstyle #hairtransformation #buzzcut

"shoutout my mom for getting me right🤝" is a short, simple idea: Dylan Novak, who calls himself a professional basketball player in his channel's about text, credits his mother with the haircut. The tags say what kind: a buzz cut, a full hair transformation.

The views landed about where his shorts usually land. The comment section did not. It filled up about seven times faster than on one of his usual first days, and much of it is a vote. A string of comments invite others to score the cut in the replies. Others give their own number.

The verdicts split. Some viewers say they will miss his hair but like the result. Others prefer his last cut, or wonder whether the pale new color beats his old brown with highlights. One viewer points out that he recently called his old hair his favorite. Several compare the new look to someone named Marlon. A few simply ask him to let the curls grow back.

Dylan seems to have heard them. On Monday he posted a second short on the same cut, titled "did i nerf myself??😭".

The haircut is not even the channel's biggest story of the weekend. Storm, his French bulldog, starred in four dance and game shorts on Sunday, and one of them, "you’ll get it right some day," passed three million views within a day. The channel added 42,000 subscribers in seven days.

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The numbers

The views on the haircut short sit close to the channel's usual pace, so the difference is in how much people had to say.

comments on the video's first day

usual first day here

103

this video

722

subscribers

352,000

▲ 42,000 in the last 7 days

total views

424,271,078

views per day

6,803,223

typical day: 7,068,164

the video

views

443,088

likes

7,716

comments

866

days online

2

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Joseph Arning

363,000

Grace May

361,000

Dylan Novak

352,000

MashtagBrady2.0

351,000

Michaela Bento

338,000

Sophie Jayne

326,000

As of October 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.

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