'24 Hours in France' turns Mathew Matos Gillingwater into a duck
The two-day-old short is closing in on 900,000 views, the biggest of fourteen uploads that also took in Freshers Week and a boy learning to look girly.
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24 Hours in France
Mathew Matos Gillingwater has passed 615 million total views, and the short that pushed hardest toward that line spends a single day in France and comes out the other side as something closer to waterfowl.
"24 Hours in France" went up on October 4 and pulled in close to 600,000 views in its first day. The premise is in the title: an accent that thickens hour by hour. The comments map the slide almost scene by scene. One viewer counts it off from normal to a little accented to Donald Duck, others hear a turn toward a well-known American politician somewhere in the middle, and plenty ask whether he became French or a zombie by the end. The most liked note comes from someone who says this is exactly what their whole French family sounds like, and a few French speakers answer back in French.
It was a crowded week, fourteen uploads in all. "The Only Straight Boy in the Group" grew steadily to around 700,000 after a slower start. "How to look girly (as a boy)" and "Boys Dress Like Girls!" kept up his habit of playing with gender, and "Uni Freshers Week" went back to student life. Two newer shorts, "The Only Gay in the Family" and "if Cocktails were Human," are already moving quickly a day after going up.
The channel as a whole ran below its usual daily pace and added about 4,000 subscribers. Among the comedy sketch channels close to his size, he sat in the middle for views gained. Biggy Bailey and Kountry Wayne had the big weeks, and Tyler Warwick and Brian Moller were among the quiet ones.
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What viewers say
genuinely what my whole french family sounds like
@ZaraWood-l2lSee it on YouTubeAs a French person. Oui oui!
@ART1ST_L3M0NA1DSee it on YouTubedid you become French or a zombie 😭..
@7_.CH4NC3._7See it on YouTube
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- Channel
- Mathew Matos Gillingwater
- Subscribers
- 706,000 ▲ 4,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 6,821,255
- Videos published this week
- 14
- Video published
- October 4, 2026
- Video views so far
- 896,155
- Views on its first day
- 594,609
The numbers
Here is how Mathew's channel and his newest videos stand.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which cartoon character is famous for a garbled, quacking voice that viewers compared to Mathew's final hour?
Donald Duck's barely understandable quacking voice, first performed by Clarence Nash, is his trademark.
