'Is This Hotel Worth It?' Vilux's commenters vote for the parking lot
The @paulsohard clip drew close to six times the comments of a usual first day, and most of them are about a pillow and a price.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,369,598 views a day, 24 times a normal first day on this channel (56,366).
Is This Hotel Worth It? | @paulsohard
A clips channel built on traffic stops and roadside arrests got its fastest-moving upload from a hotel room. "Is This Hotel Worth It? | @paulsohard" passed 800,000 views within ten hours of going up on Vilux. That is far beyond what the channel's Shorts usually manage on a whole first day.
The title asks a question, and the comment section answers it almost with one voice. Many viewers are sure they spotted a bed bug on the pillow. Several say an older man can be seen picking at the sheets. A price of $80 comes up again and again, and people argue about what a room like this should cost. The most liked replies list other places to sleep: the parking lot, a tent, out of town under the stars. Others ask how a place like this stays open, and one says they would call the health inspector. The comments arrived nearly six times faster than on a typical Vilux first day.
The footage is credited to @paulsohard, the same source behind "Police Stop Him Over a Dirty Plate", the muddy license plate clip that has since gone past 1.6 million views, as we reported here. Vilux posted two more clips the same day: a ticket for honking that is doing solidly, and another @paulsohard encounter over broken windshields that has barely started.
The channel as a whole is drawing about its usual daily views. This time the crowd came for one room, not for a chase.
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What viewers say
I’d sleep in the parking lot before I’d sleep in that room
@sheilajsmithSee it on YouTubeI’d just buy a tent 😂
@joshs4128See it on YouTube$80 for this is WILD
@OwnslwdwnSee it on YouTube
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I wouldn’t even give this hotel 1 star. How are places like this legally allowed to be in business?
@cadebecker2486See it on YouTubeHell no thats exactly how you bring bed bugs home
@chicorodriguez3964See it on YouTubeLiterally a bigass bed bug on the pillow 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@sebastiandragonsin1423See it on YouTubeAt that point why wouldn’t you just pull way out of town and just sleep under the stars
@TheBigBadButcher95See it on YouTubeIm itching just watching this...let alone sleeping there.... zero chance would i stay.... id be gone faster then you could blink.....
@RronKaraxhaSee it on YouTubeI feel like its fine for hotels like this to exist, but for $80? No way. Thats a $30 a night room, at best.
@AlexHerlanSee it on YouTubeThat place is worth demolition
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- Channel
- Vilux
- Subscribers
- 126,000 ▲ 7,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 34,946,904
- Channel views, pace per day
- 4,010,768 (on a normal day: 4,217,733)
- Video published
- October 7, 2026
- Video views so far
- 838,509 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 1,369,598
The numbers
One Short is doing most of the talking for a channel that is otherwise running at its usual pace.
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The word "motel" is a blend of "hotel" and which other word?
Motels began as roadside lodging for travelers driving cars, so the name joins "motor" and "hotel."
