The Good Dinosaur gives Arlo a human wilderness guide
A meetsstar edit turns Arlo and Spot's rocky friendship into a string of survival mishaps, drawing nearly 390,000 views in seven hours.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 868,013 views a day, 16 times a normal first day on this channel (54,238).
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Spot offers Arlo part of a beetle to eat. Arlo recoils. As introductions to wilderness survival go, it neatly establishes who needs help and who knows what they're doing.
The scene opens meetsstar's fast-starting Short assembled from Pixar's The Good Dinosaur (2015). This is a clips channel's edit of the film, with music and subtitles, rather than a new adventure from the studio. Its early viewing pace is far above the channel's usual start for Shorts.
The friendship promised in the title takes a bumpy route. Arlo panics on a cliff ledge, while Spot treats the landscape as somewhere to find food and tackle danger. When a huge snake interrupts their berry hunt, it's the human boy who confronts it. The dinosaur may have the size, but his companion has the survival instincts.
That reversal has caught viewers' attention: some comments joke that the dinosaur and human seem to have exchanged roles. Another viewer remembers the film as their grandmother's favorite and plans to ask her to watch it together again.
For meetsstar, Arlo and Spot extend a run of animated-film edits that includes Hiro's microbots in Big Hero 6 and Gwen's family adventures in Migration. The channel has also added tens of thousands of subscribers over the past week.
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What viewers say
this movie was my grandma’s favorite movie. We haven’t watched it in a long time. I’m gonna ask her if we can watch it again. It was so funny.
@EstherGomez-j2bSee it on YouTubeLooks like the dinosaur and the human switched bodies
@XOXO-l9dSee it on YouTubeBeautiful movie ❤
2015 was really good with movies music and vibes.@arunrv9374See it on YouTube
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I love this movie so much ❤🎉
@godfreyjeremiah1036See it on YouTubeso funny
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- Channel
- meetsstar
- Subscribers
- 365,000 ▲ 45,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 53,267,193
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,542,008 (on a normal day: 6,470,551)
- Video published
- November 4, 2026
- Video views so far
- 387,540 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 868,013
The numbers
The Good Dinosaur edit is making an unusually fast start among meetsstar's Shorts. The channel has also recorded a substantial weekly subscriber gain.
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Which animation studio made The Good Dinosaur?
The Good Dinosaur is a Pixar animated feature released in 2015.

