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LaurenZside reopens Hotdog House in a costume to match

A horror restaurant simulator and a return to P.T. fill her two-upload week.

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LaurenZside Story of October 29, 2026Trari Newsroom

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i am a hotdog that sells hotdogs

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0:00A hot-dog montage introduces Lauren's plan to become a hot dog selling hot dogs.
2:23Lauren reaches the rundown restaurant, names it Laurens Hotdog House and starts cleaning.
4:42The first customers arrive as she grinds sausages, slices buns and prepares orders.
8:29The old man's nighttime visit turns the restaurant job into a horror assignment.
15:06Another cemetery trip requires avoiding a policeman; diner profits fund repairs to the drinks dispenser and fryer.

The uniform is the menu. Dressed as a hot dog, mustard stripe and all, LaurenZside opens a roadside restaurant in "i am a hotdog that sells hotdogs," then discovers that the supply chain is considerably worse than the décor.

First comes a surprisingly elaborate introduction about America's love of hot dogs. Then Lauren names her battered establishment Laurens Hotdog House, cleans up and starts serving customers. An ominous old man soon turns the restaurant simulator into graveyard horror, forcing her into a gruesome meat-sourcing operation. Her defense is perfectly in character: "I'm a hot dog, okay? I'm not a person, I'm a hot dog."

The upload has reached roughly 313,000 views, the larger audience of her two new releases. In the comments, viewers recognize the costume from her Sims days, remember earlier Hotdog House jokes and admit the polished opening briefly made them think an ad was playing. One voter in her game poll hadn't expected that particular sentence to appear in their notifications.

Her other upload, "NO ONE Could Download This Game for 11 YEARS… but I Did," takes her into P.T., the removed playable teaser for Silent Hills associated with Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro. Lauren says she was too scared to play it when it first appeared. It now has the channel's busiest daily viewing, just above Hotdog House.

Across the channel, weekly views totaled about six million, while subscribers stayed unchanged. Daily viewing is currently less than half its usual level. That's a softer finish to a week whose new material gives Lauren's self-described "Gaming Comedian" identity an unusually literal costume.

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What viewers say

I know I voted for this in the poll but I didn’t expect “I am a hotdog selling hotdogs” to pop up in my notifications
@BenjustaminuteSee it on YouTube
the hotdog costume from the sims days 🥹
@mads.is.back.107See it on YouTube
I did NOT expect a video essay type intro 😭
@Quietbird-o4h3jSee it on YouTube

5 more comments

YES THE HOTDOG COSTUME IS BAAAACKKKK 🎉🎉
@Liv.lxpezzSee it on YouTube
This feels like an older Lauren video and it may just be the hotdog costume
@Moral-PanickSee it on YouTube
"Look at me sir I am the menu" got me rolling on the floor
@less_parkingboomSee it on YouTube
AT FIRST I THOUGHT A AD WAS PLAYING UNTIL I HEARD UR VOICE-
@ilovedoodling-d8eSee it on YouTube
0:19 YOU'RE SO GOOD AT THIS I THOUGHT THIS WAS AN AD
@kuhu_881See it on YouTube

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The facts

Channel: LaurenZside
Subscribers: 10,400,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 6,070,301
Videos published this week: 2
Video published: October 24, 2026
Video views so far: 312,991
Views on its first day: 173,214

The numbers

Here is how LaurenZside's uploads and audience moved over the week.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

21,292,937

14,343,784

10,733,449

6,248,938

6,070,301

4,797,695

3,348,995

2,430,099

1,897,919

subscribers

10,400,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

4,996,126,012

views per day

364,067

typical day: 871,358

first-day views of each video posted this week

i am a hotdog that sells hotdogs

173,214

NO ONE Could Download This Game for 11 …

165,386

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

14,000,000

13,700,000

11,700,000

10,400,000

9,760,000

9,550,000

9,090,000

8,640,000

8,020,000

As of October 29, 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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