Michael Storen's candy check turns up an entire air fryer

His deadpan safety-warning parody has passed four million views, and viewers are inventing even less plausible discoveries.

Channel: Michael Storen Story of November 2, 2026Trari Newsroom

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 3,667,674 views a day, 7.6 times a normal first day on this channel (483,088).

ALWAYS check your Halloween candy… 😱😱

Michael Storen breaks a chocolate bar over a concrete floor. The camera tilts down, and there sits an entire air fryer, with a piece of chocolate underneath it.

"Someone put an air fryer in my candy bar," he announces, maintaining the deep, serious voice of a public safety warning. This is a staged comedy sketch, not a report of tampered candy. His parting instruction: "Stay safe out there."

The November upload, titled "ALWAYS check your Halloween candy… 😱😱", has passed four million views. Its estimated first-day audience was nearly eight times the usual start for Storen's Shorts.

The comments have become an extension of the joke. Viewers describe imaginary discoveries including a Boeing jumbo jet, a house and Eminem emerging from an M&M packet. Others focus on smaller details: the chocolate's caramel pull and the air fryer's still-attached cord. Comments arrived more than six times as fast as on a usual first day.

Storen has used the candy-check setup before: a warning sketch posted in 2022 remains among his most-watched Shorts. Here, the supposed hidden hazard is simply a countertop appliance, delivered with a completely straight face.

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The numbers

The candy sketch drew a much larger first-day audience than Storen's usual Shorts, with an unusually busy comment section too.

the video's first day

usual first day here

483,088

this video

3,667,674

subscribers

4,590,000

▲ 50,000 in the last 7 days

total views

5,511,337,056

views per day

16,981,274

typical day: 9,670,351

the video

views

4,035,303

likes

139,306

comments

8,382

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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5,060,000

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4,590,000

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4,400,000

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4,080,000

As of November 2, 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.