A witness to Christa Pike's botched execution draws thirty times TMZ's usual first day

The comment section filled even faster than the views, much of it turning to the victim's family and to how the procedure was carried out.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 372,820 views a day, 33 times a normal first day on this channel (11,389).

Christa Pike Update: Women Who Witnessed Botched Execution Speaks Out | TMZ

A new TMZ video usually opens to something near 11,000 views on its first day. Nine hours after it went up, "Christa Pike Update: Women Who Witnessed Botched Execution Speaks Out | TMZ" had passed 200,000, a pace about thirty times the channel's norm.

The video centers on someone who was in the room for the execution, which the title calls botched, and who is now describing what she saw. It stands apart from the rest of the channel's output. Alongside it, TMZ posted its usual mix: Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick at the NYC Ballet Fall Fashion Gala, and a postgame interview from the White Sox first baseman Munetaka Murakami.

The comments arrived far faster than the views. A usual first day brings about forty. This video had more than 900 in its first nine hours. Many viewers turn to the victim and her family, and several mention her mother, who came to witness the execution. Others question how the procedure was carried out. Some ask why a veterinarian or a nurse was not involved, and others ask why the case took decades to reach this point.

The day's TMZ Live episode, in which Harvey Levin and the newsroom staff go through the top stories, also opened well above the channel's usual pace, though nowhere near this report.

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The numbers

The figures show a report that drew a far larger audience, and a far busier comment section, than a typical TMZ upload.

the video's first day

usual first day here

11,389

this video

372,820

subscribers

5,190,000

total views

2,353,075,585

views per day

592,298

typical day: 679,843

the video

views

201,993

likes

2,001

comments

935

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

PBS NewsHour

5,380,000

The New York Times

5,280,000

NowThis Impact

5,230,000

TMZ

5,190,000

Daily Mail World

5,030,000

Global News

4,920,000

As of October 2, 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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