Video taking off 12x its usual first day

Drew McIntyre's stare derails a Stiff Socks guessing round

A Post Malone headband and a looming slap turn the familiar game into a pressure test, drawing about 1.4 million first-day views.

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Stiff Socks Story of October 27, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,381,409 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (116,226).

Guess the Person in 1 minute or get slapped by WWE Superstar Drew McIntyre

Post Malone's face is attached to the headband, but the person wearing it keeps guessing politicians. Beside his chair, Drew McIntyre is making concentration rather difficult.

The Stiff Socks challenge gives its guesser a minute to identify the celebrity or receive a slap from the WWE wrestler. McIntyre, dressed in a blue suit, doesn't need to do much at first. He stands close, stares and lets the countdown do its work.

"Oh my God, it's so much harder when he's there," the guesser says.

Questions about whether the mystery person is alive, an athlete or an actor give way to repeated attempts to establish whether he's "problematic." An off-camera voice finally intervenes: "He's not gonna get problematic the more you say problematic." Robert Kraft, JFK and Barack Obama all enter the increasingly frantic guessing.

That unraveling is what viewers are picking apart: repeated questions, answers that don't seem to register, and McIntyre's unbroken stare. Others single out his parting instruction to "Suck it up buttercup."

The Short drew nearly twelve times the channel's usual first-day audience for the format. Celebrity identification is already central to Stiff Socks: its most-watched regular upload features Wiz Khalifa playing the game. McIntyre also appears in the separate episode "Guess the Person with WWE Superstar Drew Mcintyre," extending his visit beyond this countdown.

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What viewers say

He blanked out as soon as drew was inches from his face
@troua2001See it on YouTube
"Suck it up, buttercup" was priceless
@ThiagoSerruyaSee it on YouTube
Whispers "you said that" 😂😂
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The pump fake was so funny
@hlhjkhjklhjklhSee it on YouTube
The absolute death stare that Drew was giving him. No wonder Trevor didn't get it
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