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Tyler Blanchard puts GTA's crash physics through a real-world test

Ronnie the dummy takes the impacts, professional stunt performers join the crew, and car windows prove less cooperative than their game counterparts.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 653,136 views a day, 5.8 times a normal first day on this channel (112,185).

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  1. 2:58The crew positions Ronnie between two cars to recreate a GTA collision.
  2. 6:19Professional stuntman Kurt rides a motorcycle fitted with a rig that ejects the dummy.
  3. 10:42Mannequins fitted with impact indicators line up for a test of GTA's vehicle-damage physics.
  4. 15:44Tyler prepares a car crash into a reinforced concrete wall to test windshield-ejection physics.
  5. 18:22The final experiment tests how difficult car side windows are to break.

Ronnie is back on crash-test duty, trading horror-movie traps for the unforgiving streets of Grand Theft Auto. Tyler Blanchard's ballistic dummy gets launched from a motorcycle and caught between cars as the crew tests how closely the game's mayhem resembles real physics.

"I Tested Brutal GTA Deaths" reached roughly 374,000 views in ten hours, a much faster start than Tyler Blanchard's usual regular upload. It follows a run of horror-inspired experiments, but swaps elaborate movie contraptions for the everyday vehicles that GTA turns into disposable props.

Professional stunt performers Kurt and Jane join the production. For the motorcycle test, an ejection rig sends Ronnie across the asphalt. Elsewhere, a Fiat faces a line of pedestrian mannequins in an experiment about whether a car can emerge as unscathed as it does in the game. These are staged tests with dummies, not footage of real casualties.

Some of the most revealing moments come when ordinary materials refuse to behave like game objects. A bottle doesn't break on the car body as expected, while the later side-window test finds glass much harder to smash than GTA suggests. Among the comments, one viewer questions whether the bottle choice makes the comparison fair; others return to the running joke about getting real-life GTA experiments before GTA 6.

The upload also includes a sponsored promotion. Its final test brings the spectacle back to a stubbornly simple obstacle: a car window that won't cooperate.

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The facts
Subscribers
5,120,000 ▲ 20,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
10,443,121
Channel views, pace per day
1,082,542 (on a normal day: 1,691,213)
Video published
November 14, 2026
Video views so far
374,172 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
653,136

The numbers

The GTA experiment is starting well above Tyler Blanchard's usual pace for regular videos, even while the channel's overall daily views are below their usual level.

the video's first day
usual first day here
112,185
this video
653,136
subscribers
5,120,000
▲ 20,000 in the last 7 days
total views
3,612,673,544
views per day
1,082,542
typical day: 1,691,213
the video
views
374,172
likes
8,342
comments
610
days online
1
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
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6,000,000
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5,770,000
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4,750,000
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4,630,000
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