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REACT's Guitar Hero challenge finds Jaxon's Strokes-shaped weakness

"Reptilia" interrupts the self-restraint in a rock-song challenge featuring Jaime, Jaxon, Nick, Izzy, Martine and Sabrina.

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Try Not To Sing: Guitar Hero's Greatest Hits

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0:16Tenacious D opens the playlist, prompting memories of Guitar Hero difficulty settings.
2:22Muse's "Knights of Cydonia" tests the participants' ability to keep still.
8:55The Strokes' "Reptilia" arrives, putting Jaxon's favorite band into the challenge.
10:18Jaxon makes his case for including The Strokes in more 2000s-themed episodes.
13:08Heart's "Barracuda" prompts discussion of classic-rock songs that are difficult not to sing.

Jaxon has a complaint, and it is not about the difficulty of hitting Guitar Hero's orange button. Why have The Strokes been missing from so many previous 2000s-themed episodes?

At the arrival of "Reptilia" in "Try Not To Sing: Guitar Hero's Greatest Hits," restraint gives way to an enthusiastic performance. "The Strokes are my favorite band of all time," he says. For a challenge that forbids singing, mouthing along and dancing, that is a fairly substantial vulnerability.

The episode was REACT's most-watched new upload among six posted this week, reaching roughly 137,000 views. Its playlist draws from the plastic-guitar years: Tenacious D, Muse, Living Colour, Heart and Boston all supply temptations. Izzy remembers struggling to reach the orange button, while Nick has trouble keeping the air guitar under control.

The comments turn Jaxon's Strokes moment into a request for a whole episode devoted to the band. Elsewhere, viewers ask where DragonForce's "Through the Fire and Flames" went and reminisce about mastering the game's harder settings. The missing songs are practically a second playlist.

Across the channel, subscribers were unchanged and daily viewing is running at about half its usual level. Infinite is also having a slower-than-usual day in the reaction-channel neighborhood, while penguinz0's viewing is much closer to its familiar rhythm.

REACT's busiest upload right now is instead "Which Old TV Shows Need A Reboot?", whose choices range from Seinfeld to Pushing Daisies. The newer "Trina Vega Blind Ranks Iconic Victorious Foods! 👀 #HollywoodArts" is also gathering views faster than the Guitar Hero episode: television nostalgia has joined the rock singalong on the channel's menu.

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What viewers say

Jaxon went full-on fanboy for The Strokes, and I loved every single second of it. :D
@jakerousseau2285See it on YouTube
Great to see Jaime and Jaxon paired. Always a fun time
@tragicheartSee it on YouTube
1:57 SAME!!! I could NOT do the five buttons!!!
@JacksonOwexSee it on YouTube

3 more comments

Was I the only one expecting miss murder by afi?
@Pitaponpon2010See it on YouTube
As an expert Guitar Hero player, I mustve been out of town for this episode haha
@BrandelthekeySee it on YouTube
It blows my mind how many people played Guitar Hero without making it into the Expert mode. Expert just felt so good when you were good at it.
@TheHouZeR88See it on YouTube

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The facts

Channel: REACT
Subscribers: 20,200,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 2,941,963
Videos published this week: 6
Video published: October 24, 2026
Video views so far: 137,393
Views on its first day: 77,237

The numbers

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

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

67,844,525

49,340,026

38,628,902

12,641,018

12,401,020

8,578,319

7,070,581

2,941,963

2,145,270

subscribers

20,200,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

13,861,289,399

views per day

249,432

typical day: 479,453

first-day views of each video posted this week

Try Not To Sing: Guitar Hero's Greatest…

77,237

Boys Vs. Girls: Guess The Sexy Song!

62,190

Which Old TV Shows Need A Reboot?

54,857

Do yall also miss 2020 a little? #nosta…

33,435

Trina Vega Blind Ranks Iconic Victoriou…

31,967

Who’s car won? 📢📢📢 #cars #screaming

17,514

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

26,000,000

20,200,000

18,300,000

8,490,000

7,140,000

6,420,000

6,140,000

5,840,000

5,680,000

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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