The Smily Fam puts a price on every made free throw

NBA jerseys set the scene, but a relieved celebration after a string of misses gives the basketball challenge its comic contrast.

Channel: The Smily Fam Story of October 22, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 629,130 views a day, 17 times a normal first day on this channel (37,226).

Basketball Money Ball Battle!

A run of misses doesn't stop the player in the Boston jersey from celebrating when his last shot finally drops. The Smily Fam's basketball challenge makes room for that small victory alongside some much steadier shooting.

In "Basketball Money Ball Battle!", each successful free throw adds $100 to a digital counter on the backboard. The opening shooter, wearing a green Dallas jersey, strings together makes while an off-camera commentator supplies encouragement: "Oh, that's clean. You should be worth more."

Then comes the Boston turn, with other participants rebounding through the misses. A player in a Stephen Curry Golden State jersey follows with a quick succession of baskets, giving the shirt an appropriately sharp-shooting outing.

The Short passed 700,000 views in a little over a day, far beyond the channel's usual first-day start. Its comments were also about five times busier than usual. Viewers single out the opening shooter's accuracy and the Boston player's enthusiasm over a modest tally, two very different ways to make a free-throw round memorable.

Basketball wasn't the channel's only fast-starting game: a reaction challenge, a numbered-choice Short and a pop tic-tac-toe contest also drew unusually strong starts. Here, though, the setup needs little explaining: make the basket, watch the counter climb.

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The numbers

The basketball Short drew a much larger first-day audience than The Smily Fam's usual Shorts, with a busier comment section too.

the video's first day

usual first day here

37,226

this video

629,130

subscribers

5,100,000

▲ 60,000 in the last 7 days

total views

16,273,901,124

views per day

58,088,023

typical day: 38,285,227

the video

views

716,999

likes

16,120

comments

88

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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5,790,000

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5,650,000

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5,600,000

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5,510,000

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5,330,000

The Smily Fam

5,100,000

As of October 22, 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.