Brandon Tatum's Statue of Liberty clip mixes myth with history

The fast-starting reaction Short centers on an origin claim, but the statue's broken chains have a real connection to emancipation.

Channel: The Officer Tatum Story of October 14, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 363,305 views a day, 8.9 times a normal first day on this channel (40,912).

“We was the Statue of Liberty” 😂🤣

An interviewer repeats the surprising part back to his guest: "You said the Statue of Liberty originally had an afro." The man insists, and another commentator's response supplies the title of Brandon Tatum's latest reaction Short.

On The Officer Tatum, the clip has drawn roughly 177,000 views in eight hours. Its projected first-day audience is nearly nine times the channel's usual Shorts start, while comments have already exceeded four times the usual full-day total.

Tatum watches an inset interview in which a man says the monument was originally designed as a Black woman, with ankle chains representing slavery. The interviewer challenges the account before the video switches to another creator's disbelieving reaction.

There is an important distinction here. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi designed the statue as a female personification of liberty, and France gave it to the United States. The claim about an original afro is not supported by its documented history. But the broken shackle and chains at its feet do symbolize freedom from bondage, with a connection to the abolition of slavery. That detail is real, even though the clip bundles it with an unsupported origin story.

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The numbers

This Short is heading toward a much larger first-day audience than Tatum's usual short uploads. The comment count has also passed his typical full-day total.

the video's first day

usual first day here

40,912

this video

363,305

subscribers

3,850,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

2,249,998,134

views per day

1,278,368

typical day: 729,864

the video

views

176,721

likes

4,622

comments

1,784

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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3,850,000

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3,670,000

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As of October 14, 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.