'Never has a deception check failed THIS hard': Brink comes back, animated, on Stinky Dragon

A short tavern-tale clip from the Kyborg Kuest side campaign passed 100,000 views in about a day, and viewers keep pointing at the graffiti in the background.

Channel: Tales from the Stinky DragonStory of October 3, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 100,263 views a day, 10 times a normal first day on this channel (9,873).

Never has a deception check failed THIS hard.

Tales from the Stinky Dragon titled its new animated clip "Never has a deception check failed THIS hard." and let the bad roll do the selling. Within about a day it had passed 100,000 views. A new upload on the channel usually finishes its first day at around 10,000, so this one ran roughly ten times ahead.

The audio comes from Kyborg Kuest, one of the show's tavern tales, the side adventures that step away from the main campaign into a sci-fi parallel world. For many in the comments the real news is Brink, a character they are seeing animated for the first time, and his return gets its own small round of applause. Others zoom in on the art. A scrawl of graffiti reading "Smarsh Rulez" in the corner of the frame is one of the most noticed details. A few viewers also point out that the character's big line was already used in The LEGO Movie.

The rest of the thread plays the game along with the table. People ask what a natural 1 would have looked like if this was the result of a bad roll, and they enjoy the twist of a bard, the class known for the Vicious Mockery spell, getting mocked for once.

The show began under the Rooster Teeth banner, with co-founder Gus Sorola as Dungeon Master for Barbara Dunkelman, Chris Demarais, Jon Risinger and Blaine Gibson. Its weekly full episodes, including the third campaign's Episode 53 and a rerun of the first campaign, draw a few thousand views each. These short animated cuts are what bring the bigger crowd.

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The numbers

The clip's first day stands far above the channel's usual start, even as the channel's overall daily views stay close to normal.

the video's first day

usual first day here

9,873

this video

100,263

subscribers

718,000

▲ 3,000 in the last 7 days

total views

359,576,015

views per day

574,196

typical day: 602,929

the video

views

114,158

likes

8,941

comments

67

days online

2

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Geekdom101

784,000

ZachTheBold

783,000

Dungeons & Dragons

755,000

Tales from the Stinky Dra…

718,000

MasakoX

664,000

Dimension 20 Shorts

533,000

As of October 3, 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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