"Who had the best trick shot?" The Smily Fam hands the vote to viewers
Four players, four shots and four very different celebrations, and the comment section has turned into a ballot box.
The Smily FamStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,103,222 views a day, 38 times a normal first day on this channel (28,671).
Who had the best Trick Shot?! 🤔
The Smily Fam ended its short "Who had the best Trick Shot?! 🤔" with a question instead of a winner, and viewers took it seriously. Fifteen hours after it went up, the clip was closing in on 900,000 views, on a channel where a new short usually finishes its whole first day near 30,000.
The comments explain why the question works. Nobody seems to think anyone missed, so the argument is about style. One player's victory pose is described again and again as "aura farming," the internet's term for soaking up the moment with studied cool. Another gets credit for making a hard shot look easy. A blown kiss after one shot has its own following, and several viewers simply split their vote four ways. One sharp observer notes that all four look a little awkward showing off, which suggests none of them are natural show-offs.
That talk piled up quickly: the comments arrived more than ten times faster than on the channel's usual first day.
The trick shot video had company. "Tennis Accuracy Challenge!", posted the same day, also started well ahead of the usual pace. "Least Attempts Wins! Boys vs Girls", from the day before, has passed a million views and is approaching two million. The next batch is already up, including a "Bomb Chip Challenge! Halloween Edition".
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What viewers say
I like how they're all a bit awkward showing off which shows they're not actually showoffs 😂
@rachelwebber2120See it on YouTubeJoe had one of the toughest shots, yet he made it look effortless! 😮💨🔥
@theburnfireSee it on YouTube
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- Channel
- The Smily Fam
- Subscribers
- 4,960,000 ▲ 120,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 410,389,166
- Channel views, pace per day
- 25,531,381 (on a normal day: 45,539,743)
- Video published
- October 5, 2026
- Video views so far
- 878,435 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 1,103,222
The numbers
The numbers show how far one short ran ahead of the channel's usual first day, with two other recent uploads close behind.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which famous trick shot group began in 2009 with backyard basketball shots filmed by friends from Texas A&M?
Dude Perfect was started by Texas A&M friends who filmed basketball trick shots in 2009 and grew it into one of the biggest sports entertainment channels.
