Video taking off 11x its usual first day

Alexa Lavoie faces demands to stop filming in Saint-Denis

Rebel News' train-station report draws an unusually large early audience as a dispute over filming escalates around its crew.

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Rebel News Story of October 27, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 140,452 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (12,434).

Things got ugly in Paris...

"Madam, stop filming," a man tells Alexa Lavoie. She answers that they are in a public space. That disagreement runs through Rebel News' report from outside the train station in Saint-Denis, France, where the crew's camera becomes the focus of a confrontation.

The Short, titled "Things got ugly in Paris...", drew about 70,000 views in eight hours, already several times the channel's usual full-day audience for Shorts. Its comment section also grew well beyond a typical first day before that day was over.

Lavoie and cameraman Guillaume Roy are reporting amid unrest in France, according to the video's description. Lavoie shows street vendors near the station and says people began shouting insults as soon as filming started. An object is thrown toward the crew, and she describes the situation as unsafe.

The exchanges include competing accounts of what is happening. One man says they are only selling cigarettes and denies there is aggression. Others acknowledge that filming is allowed but object to being recorded, referring to unauthorized sales. Lavoie repeatedly maintains that she can film in public.

Rebel News also drew an unusually fast audience for its separate London coverage, with publisher Ezra Levant reporting ahead of Tommy Robinson's trial. The Saint-Denis upload stays with the argument at street level: whether the crew will keep recording when the people in front of its camera demand that it stop.

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The facts

Channel: Rebel News
Subscribers: 1,980,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 2,711,928
Channel views, pace per day: 675,943 (on a normal day: 290,468)
Video published: October 26, 2026
Video views so far: 70,710 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 140,452

The numbers

The Saint-Denis Short had already passed Rebel News' usual full-day Shorts audience within its opening hours. Comments were also arriving in unusually large numbers.

the video's first day

usual first day here

12,434

this video

140,452

subscribers

1,980,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

989,770,669

views per day

675,943

typical day: 290,468

the video

views

70,710

likes

2,504

comments

551

days online

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Tucker Carlson Network

2,050,000

2,000,000

1,980,000

1,960,000

1,950,000

1,930,000

As of October 27, 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.