KSI keeps a straight face through fish and gummy-bear jokes
The official KSIClips channel's "Respect Moment" turns a contestant's joke routine into a round of polite applause.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 238,998 views a day, 20 times a normal first day on this channel (11,813).
Respect Moment
A fish without an eye gets a swimming gesture, a punchline and a blank look from the panel. Making KSI laugh is the challenge here, and he isn't giving this contestant an easy opening.
"Respect Moment," posted on his official clips channel, reached roughly 186,000 views in 15 hours, an unusually fast start for its Shorts. The excerpt comes from a "Try Not To Laugh" game show, with KSI in a pink tracksuit and white headband, seated alongside two other panelists with money-filled briefcases.
"Yeah, you got anything else?" he asks. The contestant follows her fish joke with a familiar question about a bear without teeth. The gummy-bear answer doesn't break the panel either, but all three begin slow-clapping before thanking her as she leaves.
In the comments, viewers pick up on the "Merci beaucoup" farewell and the nerve it takes to deliver jokes to a deliberately unresponsive panel. The comment section is already much busier than the channel's usual first day.
Another Short, "Forehead Violation," also made a faster-than-usual start that day. Here, though, the whole challenge is getting KSI to react at all.
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What viewers say
But appreciate the effort though…takes guts
@harshsharma6206See it on YouTubeThe merci beaucoup was so funny😂😂😂😂
@LanWraySee it on YouTube
Public comments from the video's page on YouTube
- Channel
- KSIClips
- Subscribers
- 3,440,000 ▼ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 5,335,785
- Channel views, pace per day
- 411,647 (on a normal day: 894,614)
- Video published
- October 20, 2026
- Video views so far
- 186,456 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 238,998
The numbers
"Respect Moment" is drawing views well beyond the channel's usual Shorts pace, with comments also arriving much faster than usual.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which animal features in the contestant's second joke?
Her second joke asks what you call a bear without teeth, with "a gummy bear" as the answer.



