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Video taking off 4.4x its usual first day

Brandon Tatum questions students' answers on jails and gang roommates

A campus interview moves from abolishing jail to an offer to play Uno, leaving Tatum asking whether the students are serious.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 199,179 views a day, 4.4 times a normal first day on this channel (45,236).

These College Kids ARE CRAZY!These College Kids ARE CRAZY!
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The interviewer asks whether violent immigrants and felons should be housed on campus. One student agrees, then offers an unexpectedly ordinary activity: she has Uno in her backpack.

That exchange anchors Brandon Tatum's reaction Short, "These College Kids ARE CRAZY!", which drew roughly 109,000 views in nine hours. Its early pace is more than four times the channel's usual start for Shorts.

The embedded campus interview begins with a student advocating abolishing jail and allowing violent immigrants to remain in the country. The interviewer then pushes the hypothetical toward sharing accommodation with an member. A second student responds that gangs form because people lack community.

Tatum laughs and covers his face before turning directly to the camera. His objection shifts from the answers themselves to whether the exchange should be taken at face value: "You don't know, and this is the honest to God truth, you don't know if they're trolling or not."

The comment section has already passed three times the channel's usual full-day total. Tatum closes by questioning how the students reached college, without resolving his own question about their sincerity.

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The facts
Subscribers
3,880,000 ▲ 20,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
13,605,987
Channel views, pace per day
1,296,158 (on a normal day: 1,780,833)
Video published
November 14, 2026
Video views so far
108,535 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
199,179

The numbers

The campus reaction is drawing a much faster audience than Tatum's usual Shorts, with comments also arriving well above their usual level.

the video's first day
usual first day here
45,236
this video
199,179
subscribers
3,880,000
▲ 20,000 in the last 7 days
total views
2,299,013,558
views per day
1,296,158
typical day: 1,780,833
the video
views
108,535
likes
9,308
comments
2,010
days online
1
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
Megyn Kelly
4,190,000
David Pakman
3,700,000
Matt Walsh
3,470,000
As of November 15, 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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