One sphere among the cubes: Reighar's 'Work Smarter, Not Harder' meets the pharaoh joke
The short's comment section turned into a building site, with viewers worrying about pyramids, cut corners and the worker who would not just carry the block.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 885,605 views a day, 17 times a normal first day on this channel (52,684).
Work Smarter, Not Harder 👍
What happens when the clever shortcut makes the actual job impossible? That is the question hanging over "Work Smarter, Not Harder 👍", the newest short from Reighar, the animated storytelling channel voiced by @twistedpinttavern. It passed half a million views within ten hours, where a short here usually finishes its whole first day at around 50,000.
The comments explain the appeal better than the title does. Many viewers recognize an old internet joke in it: workers hauling building blocks, and one who carves his cube into a ball so it rolls more easily. The replies pick up from there. Supply managers count 999 cubes and one sphere, a foreman tells the pharaoh the pyramid will be late, and others point to the familiar follow-up panel where someone simply asks where the cube went. The puns arrived too, with more than one viewer noting that the smart worker literally cut corners.
Not everyone is joking. A practical group argues that a reusable cart, or two people carrying each block together, would beat a sphere that wobbles off to one side. Others see a lesson about the difference between being smart and being a know-it-all. All of it piled up quickly: the comments came in more than five times faster than on a usual first day.
It was not the only short doing well. "The Story Behind Bohemian Rhapsody 💯", posted the same day and built around Queen's 1975 epic, ran far ahead of the channel's usual start as well, and "They Saved Every Office Plant 🌱" and "How to Wear Men's Shirts 👕" had strong starts of their own. Few channels get a run like that from cubes, a rock opera, houseplants and a lesson in buttoning a shirt.
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What viewers say
Hey, uh, we ordered 1000 cubes, but we got 999 cubes and one sphere. Can anyone tell me what happened?
@spacelizard5001See it on YouTube"Pharaoh, the Pyramid must be delayed, it appears the workers have begun carving the stones into spheres making it impossible to stack them"
@atlas2819See it on YouTubeI love the continuation to this image:
"Where cube?"@luphinehowler2773See it on YouTube
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Promotes literally cutting corners
@Robert80072See it on YouTubethey really cut a few corners there.
@LucasCantBeContainedSee it on YouTubeInnovations made by people who don't actually use the end product
@YokoX23See it on YouTubeAlso sphere is more likely to roll left or right while transporting
@HearthOfRockAndStoneSee it on YouTubeNot to mention they could have just worked together to haul each cube in pairs.
@TheCuntofMonteCriscoSee it on YouTubeSo basically it’s a difference between “intelligent” and “ Know it all”
@CSWells-uq4jxSee it on YouTubeGuy at conveyor belt: Guess we're makin' circles now.
@TriggernyarSee it on YouTube
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- Channel
- Reighar
- Subscribers
- 162,000 ▲ 3,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 20,839,977
- Channel views, pace per day
- 2,730,053 (on a normal day: 2,925,068)
- Video published
- October 7, 2026
- Video views so far
- 510,910 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 885,605
The numbers
Several of Reighar's newest shorts ran well ahead of the channel's usual first day, and this one ran furthest.
💡 Test your knowledge
"Bohemian Rhapsody", the subject of another new Reighar short, first appeared on which 1975 Queen album?
Queen released "Bohemian Rhapsody" in 1975 as the lead single from A Night at the Opera.
