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A sweat suit, a sauna and hot chips push Vlad over Stay Wild's line

Ben Azelart and Cam Huff hold the cold room in a $10,000 challenge that pauses midway to unveil a new flavor of Ben's own cereal.

Why this story? One of the most watched videos since yesterday, with 3,206,108 views.

Surviving HOT vs COLD For 24 Hours!Surviving HOT vs COLD For 24 Hours!

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  1. 0:00Hannah sets the rules: Ben and Cam take the cold room, Vlad and Chris the hot one, with $10,000 at stake.
  2. 1:04Ice axes against an iPhone frozen in ice, mini blowtorches against a wax block next door.
  3. 3:21Ice pops and slushies go up against wings, spicy noodles and peppers in hot sauce.
  4. 7:40An ice bath faces a sauna as Hannah adds ice to one tub and turns up the heat in the other.
  5. 11:59Mystery wheels hand out a sweat suit, a neck fan, a frozen vest and a promotional reveal of Ben's Backflip cereal.
  6. 16:30Vlad's sauna punishment in a sweat suit with a bag of hot chips, and how he gets out of it.

"Surviving HOT vs COLD For 24 Hours!" splits Stay Wild's crew across two neighboring rooms. Ben Azelart and Cam Huff take the one full of ice and artificial snow, and Vlad and Chris take the heat. Hannah, in a white suit jacket, runs the day with $10,000 on the line and one rule, which Ben spells out himself: "If you leave the room, you lose!"

More than three million people have watched since yesterday, a day after the premise first caught attention, as we reported here.

The opening prize follows a familiar Stay Wild formula. An iPhone is frozen into a block, and "whoever is able to break their block open first gets to keep the iPhone," Hannah says. It is the same keep-it logic behind the channel's most watched video, "If You Clean The Car, You Keep It!" Ben and Cam swing ice axes, and next door Vlad and Chris take mini blowtorches to a block of wax.

After that, winning a round mostly means making the neighbors more miserable. The hot team buries Ben and Cam in fake snow, then claims s'mores and the "world's strongest fan" and turns it on the cold room.

A mystery-wheel round in the middle doubles as a promotion. Ben unboxes Frosted Dreams, a new flavor of Backflip, his own cereal brand, and a good share of the comment section is about that flavor rather than the challenge.

The moment the video builds toward belongs to Vlad. His punishment is the sauna, wearing a sweat suit, with a whole bag of hot chips to finish. Overheated, he bursts out and leaps into the other team's ice plunge tub, which counts as crossing the line. That leaves Chris alone against Ben and Cam, with trays of hot sauce and shots of ice water up next.

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What viewers say

  • The opening split-screen with one team trapped in the cold room and the other in the heat was such a great setup. I cannot imagine lasting a full day in either extreme, so the contrast made every challenge feel even more intense.
    @gpu_shorts13See it on YouTube
  • This HOT vs COLD challenge is so entertaining, I love how they survive both extreme temperatures 🔥❄
    @BubbaChopESPSee it on YouTube
  • Favorite YouTuber !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!❤❤❤ I love challenges between Ben , cam and the brothers !!!!!!!! Best videos
    @vanesaruiz7268See it on YouTube
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The facts
Channel
Stay Wild
Subscribers
26,000,000 ▲ 100,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
89,181,718
Channel views, pace per day
16,371,293 (on a normal day: 13,444,761)
Video published
October 25, 2026
Video views so far
3,911,479 (2 days online)
Video views, pace per day
3,204,993

The numbers

Here is how the hot-and-cold challenge has done since it went up, alongside the rest of Stay Wild's channel.

subscribers
26,000,000
▲ 100,000 in the last 7 days
total views
9,232,051,897
views per day
16,371,293
typical day: 13,444,761
the video
views
3,911,479
likes
42,064
comments
1,582
days online
2
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
Stay Wild
26,000,000
Ryan Trahan
24,100,000
Brianna
23,900,000
How Ridiculous
23,900,000
Jojo Sim
21,100,000
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.
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