Soccer or basketball, which is easier? The Smily Fam's relay starts a debate
A second short, 'Fastest Time Wins!', ran close behind it, the fifth fast start for the channel in five days.
The Smily FamStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,754,208 views a day, 70 times a normal first day on this channel (24,948).
Soccer vs Basketball Relay Race!
A new short from The Smily Fam usually opens with around 25,000 views on its first day. "Soccer vs Basketball Relay Race!" had passed 1.5 million seventeen hours after it went up, about seventy times that pace.
The premise is in the title: a boys-against-girls relay, one side with a basketball and the other with a soccer ball. From what viewers describe, the boys came out ahead in a very close finish, and the comment section is now arguing over whether the race was fair at all. The most liked comment says soccer is the easier side. Others say the basketball team had it simpler, because they could pick the ball up, run it back and drop it in, while the soccer side had to keep the ball under control all the way. One viewer lays out a case that the two balls even each other out. Comments came in about six times faster than on a usual first day for the channel's shorts.
The relay did not have the day to itself. "Fastest Time Wins!", posted the same day, was also running far ahead of the usual pace, and together the two nearly doubled the channel's daily views. The Smily Fam kept posting through it, with a muted-word challenge and another round of Pop Tic Tac Toe going up the next day.
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What viewers say
It is easier to do soccer than basket ball for the same time 😂
@hantonoshiSee it on YouTubeI think it's an even game, because while shooting a goal at this distance is easier, dribbling it back to the circle and making it stay there is harder than dribbling the basketball back and just putting it down
@nightskykittySee it on YouTubeIt couldn't have been a closer finish.
@FernandoVillanueva-p3sSee it on YouTube
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- Channel
- The Smily Fam
- Subscribers
- 4,900,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 66,120,455 (on a normal day: 36,461,923)
- Video published
- October 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 1,524,771 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 1,754,208
The numbers
Here are the figures behind the relay and the channel's day, a first day far beyond what its shorts usually see.
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How many players does each soccer team have on the field in a regular match?
Under the Laws of the Game, each side fields eleven players, one of them the goalkeeper.
