Tyler Vitelli's school bathroom has become a TikTok set
His school-then-and-now comedy compares passed notes, cafeteria lunches and AI-assisted homework, drawing nearly a million views within its first hours.
Why this story? One of the most watched videos since yesterday, with 946,189 views.
School Then vs Now
Video summary
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- 0:39Passed notes meet full-volume phone messages as Tyler starts scoring school life then and now.
- 3:57A bathroom-filming story turns an ordinary visit into an attempt to escape somebody else's camera.
- 7:10Tyler contrasts schoolyard bullying with social media commentary that follows students home.
- 11:40Cafeteria lunches and delivery orders become the next comparison, following a sponsored segment.
- 14:20A missing field-trip partner sends Tyler's science-museum story into confusion.
- 18:36Copying test answers meets AI-assisted homework; the final score arrives at 20:47.
"Ew, you're using the school bathroom to pee? That's disgusting." Tyler Vitelli opens "School Then vs Now" with a place that apparently no longer has time for its original purpose: there are videos to film.
The new upload has drawn roughly 950,000 views since it went up, less than a day ago. Vitelli plays students, a teacher, his dad and a classmate in staged reenactments, wrapping school stories around a handwritten scorecard comparing the past with the present.
His bathroom complaint is really about privacy. He describes trying to stay out of somebody's TikTok frame, with embarrassing consequences. Elsewhere, he argues that social media makes school humiliation harder to leave behind: the bell can end the school day without ending the commentary.
Not everything was easier before smartphones. A passed note could still deliver a devastating rejection, and copying a neighboring student's history answers required rather more stealth than asking ChatGPT. Vitelli makes that contrast the homework category's central joke, rather than pretending his younger self was above cheating.
The cafeteria comparison is getting some pushback from viewers. One describes orange chicken as the meal their school looks forward to; another says the supposedly old-fashioned food still resembles what's on their tray. Phone restrictions get a correction, too, from a viewer whose school doesn't allow them.
The video includes a sponsored healthcare-booking segment. But its main territory is familiar Vitelli material: school rules and awkward memories, subjects he has also mined in "School Drills Are DUMB.." and "Embarrassing School Moments We All Had".
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Where next?
- Channel
- Tyler Vitelli
- Subscribers
- 10,000,000 ▲ 110,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 211,462,622
- Channel views, pace per day
- 17,731,097 (on a normal day: 28,083,331)
- Video published
- November 6, 2026
- Video views so far
- 432,153 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 871,521
The numbers
The new school comparison is approaching a million views in less than a day. That is the video's audience so far, not a projected daily total.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which AI tool does Tyler mention in his homework comparison?
Tyler names ChatGPT when contrasting modern homework shortcuts with copying another student's answers.


