Viral Content Week #22 — Oct 27–Nov 2: 8 YouTube videos, 5 Reddit posts, and a six-video channel at No. 1
A channel with six uploads and 180,000 subscribers took the week's top YouTube slot with 104.9 million views, Halloween shaped all five of Reddit's biggest posts, and no checkable TikTok or Instagram weekly ranking exists, so the list covers YouTube and Reddit.
The biggest video of the week holds 104,912,460 views. The account that posted it has 180,000 subscribers and six uploads. 12
Neither number is a typo. This was a week where reach and size came apart.
This issue covers what was published between October 27 and November 2, 2026. YouTube entries run in order of view count, Reddit entries in order of score.
The video list ranks what reached YouTube's US trending boards across eleven categories, read on Monday afternoon.
The Reddit list is the top of r/popular, Reddit's aggregated feed of popular subreddits, read the same afternoon.
Every figure here is a snapshot from that window. All of these counts keep moving after the issue goes out.
One coverage boundary holds. TikTok and Instagram publish no platformwide weekly ranking that can be checked from outside, so the lists below cover YouTube and Reddit.
YouTube
1. "📝Kindness is P.O.W.E.R.F.U.L!🔥The world is in pain and needs healing." — Benjilo
104,912,460 views, 2,027,892 likes, 29,945 comments. Published October 28; runtime 2:26. 1
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The thumbnail runs three vertical panels. The middle one shows a golden retriever beside a white puppy whose back legs ride in a wheeled harness.
Both dogs stand on gravel, with a man in an orange jacket on the steps behind them. The caption reads "He couldn't walk yet, but he wasn't alone".
@placepeople101 holds 180,000 subscribers, six uploads and 104,025,692 lifetime views, about 17.3 million an upload. The channel opened in December 2013 and declares the UK. 2
The clip ran 582.8 times the subscriber count and 6.1 times the channel's own average. Its like rate is 1.93%, with one comment per 3,504 views.
The arithmetic is the story. This single upload is 887,000 views larger than every video the channel has ever posted, added together.
2. "Piano-Black Luxury Suitcase Transforms Into Cyber Super-Sport Bike at JFK 😱🏍️" — ASA Hacks
79,636,886 views, 680,988 likes, 10,457 comments. Published October 27; runtime 0:31. 3
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The thumbnail puts a woman in black, crouched on a black-and-gold machine, at the kerb outside JFK's Terminal 4.
A yellow taxi idles behind her, a worker in a hi-vis vest stands at the barrier, and six or seven bystanders have their phones up.
@asa-hacks-e3t opened on October 10, 2026, seventeen days before this upload. It holds 152,000 subscribers, 22 videos and 128,626,543 lifetime views, about 5.8 million an upload. 4
The clip ran 523.9 times the subscriber count and 13.6 times the channel average.
Its description is written as a scene: she "tapped the gold emblem on the curb, and it extended and locked into a full heavy black-and-gold cyber super-sport bike".
The tags include "#ViralOpticalIllusion". 3
Thirty-one seconds hold one premise and one payoff, and the airport crowd in the frame does the reacting for the viewer.
3. "RICE 1 vs 1000 SMASH #cooking #food" — Shunkiwii
69,304,873 views, 1,677,683 likes, 9,165 comments. Published October 28; runtime 1:17. 5
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The thumbnail shows a young man in a black T-shirt swinging a wooden mallet above two balls of rice, one green and one white, on a wooden board.
"1 vs 1000" sits over his head with "HP: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️" beneath it.
@shunkiwii holds 4,290,000 subscribers, 150 uploads and 732,169,954 lifetime views, about 4.9 million an upload, on a channel opened in February 2024. 6
The clip ran 14.2 times that average and 16.2 times the subscriber count. Its 2.42% like rate is the highest of the eight.
The description says what it is: "I made Mochi by Pounding Sticky Rice in a mortar with pestle." The health bar turns a recipe into a countdown.
4. "Ranking Funniest Dog Moments" — AuraShorts
54,281,485 views, 368,521 likes, 1,571 comments. Published October 31; runtime 0:21. 7
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The thumbnail is a small brown dog with a face full of whipped cream at a metal bowl, a larger dog behind it.
"Ranking Best Funniest Dog Moments" runs across the top over a numbered list; entries four and six read "oscar level🏆" and "instant regret 😂". A watermark reads Aurashorts67.
@aurashorts67 holds 2,300,000 subscribers, 480 uploads and 5,275,862,991 lifetime views, about 11.0 million an upload, on a channel opened in November 2025. 8
The clip ran 4.9 times the channel average and 23.6 times the subscriber count.
Its like rate is 0.68%, and its 1,571 comments come to one per 34,552 views, the thinnest column on the list.
5. "Beat LeBron In Basketball, Win $100,000" — MrBeast
51,263,551 views, 844,768 likes, 44,265 comments. Published October 31; runtime 22:28. 9
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The thumbnail is a composite: MrBeast gripping a basketball in a blue jersey, LeBron James in Lakers gold behind him, the clock at 12:00.
@mrbeast holds 525,000,000 subscribers, 1,011 uploads and 145,520,114,243 lifetime views, about 143.9 million an upload, on a channel opened in February 2012. 10
The video ran 0.4 times that average and 0.1 times the subscriber count. It is the only entry here that underperformed its own channel.
Its description credits Erling Haaland and Alysa Liu alongside the basketball, and frames the episode as "Is it possible for me to beat the world's best athletes in a 1v1?" 9
At 22:28 it is the only long-form entry, and it has the densest comment column: one per 1,158 views.
6. "when your glass breaks but LISA is playing #LISA#pressplay#blackpink" — vivivibes
46,168,942 views, 499,471 likes, 1,265 comments. Published October 27; runtime 0:15. 11
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The thumbnail is a vertical frame: LISA in a white fur jacket drinking from a green cocktail at a marble bar, blurred heads on either side.
The caption over the picture reads "when your glass breaks but LISA is playing".
@vivivibes holds 138,000 subscribers, 631 uploads and 140,271,479 lifetime views, about 222,300 an upload, on a channel opened in March 2017 and based in Canada. 12
The clip ran 207.7 times that average, the largest multiple here, and 334.6 times the subscriber count.
The description places it at "LISA press play album listening party in toronto" with Sony Music. 11
Fifteen seconds, a record people already want to hear, and a mishap that hands the clip its caption.
7. "New MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display: The first-ever Mac with Touch" — Apple
43,495,866 views, 62,286 likes. Published October 28; runtime 1:57. 13
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The thumbnail is a black frame with the words "MacBook Pro PROLED XDR Display" on the left and a hand reaching toward the glowing edge of an open screen.
@apple holds 21,100,000 subscribers, 228 uploads and 1,231,119,072 lifetime views, about 5.4 million an upload, on a channel opened in June 2005. 14
The video ran 8.1 times that average and 2.1 times the subscriber count.
It went up the day the product did. Apple's release describes a tandem OLED panel at up to 2,000 nits, with pre-orders October 28 and sale on November 6. 15
No comment figure came back for this video, so no comment density is reported. Its 0.14% like rate is the lowest here by a wide margin.
8. "Why Dobermans Have Cropped Ears 😞" — Zack D. Films
37,193,303 views, 721,265 likes, 4,340 comments. Published October 30; runtime 0:32. 16
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The thumbnail is a 3D-animated scene: a masked man in a black beanie reaches toward a doberman's head in a grey yard.
A pallet leans against a cyan wall behind him, and the caption strip reads "could get grabbed".
@zackdfilms holds 29,500,000 subscribers, 4,163 uploads and 82,054,730,578 lifetime views, about 19.7 million an upload, on a channel opened in June 2021. 17
The video ran 1.9 times that average and 1.3 times the subscriber count.
Its like rate is 1.94%, and 4,340 comments come to one per 8,570 views.
The animated format does the work: a historical practice, drawn out, explained in thirty-two seconds without a photograph.
The five entries below are the highest-scoring posts on Reddit's r/popular board for the week, read on the same Monday afternoon and ordered by score.
1. "The candy I won't be handing out today because my wife called me a creep for being excited about trick or treaters" — r/mildlyinfuriating
185k score, 28k comments, 77% upvoted. Posted November 1 by u/whitemike40. 18
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The image is a bowl of fun-size chocolate bars. The text underneath: "First Halloween in years I won't be working so I bought a bag of candy to give out."
Then the line the post is named after. "When I got it out of the pantry to lay out my wife says 'ok creep'."
He adds that she went on to explain a 47-year-old man giving out candy is creepy, and that he should absolutely not do it.
A 77% upvote share is the lowest of the five, on the most comments of any post this week. That is what a lot of people arguing looks like.
The top reply is another wife. u/Twin-Flames, at 75k: "Advice from someone else's wife, you should hand it out anyway and ignore her."
The count is the joke. u/Babilzpoint0 "seconds that" at 20k, uFantastic-You7208 is "thirds by the same" at 9.0k, and u!mgonnagolaydown opens at 6.3k with "4th".
That last comment is where the thread turns. Its author is already arguing with her own husband about who stays home to hand out candy.
That comment also names the enemy: the "little turd who stole all our candy last year".
u/lopachilla, at 2.5k, finds the flaw in the revenge plan: "Most of them wear different disguises every year."
The poster's background is not public.
2. "Heidi Klum's Halloween Costume (2026)" — r/mildyinteresting
114k score, 2.4k comments, 86% upvoted. Posted November 1 by u/TheBronsXX. 19
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The post is one photograph of Klum on a blue carpet, standing inside a giant, bloodied hand with her own rings on the fingers.
It is a body-scanned copy of her left hand, made for her 25th annual Halloween party in New York, with the tattoo of her husband's name reproduced. 20
"I looked at my hand and I thought, 'Hey, I think I could fit my body in this somehow,'" she said, per the Associated Press.
The thread does not discuss the costume. It puns on it. The poster opens at 4.4k with "This is getting out of hand."
Then the chain: "It's looking very in hand to me" (783), "oh please, get a grip." (322).
It keeps going: "Something's off but I just can't seem to put my finger on it." (185), "I can't handle how good this is" (97).
One reply at 45 asks the room to stop: "Can you all just give it a wrist".
One at 29 goes for broke: "You have to admire a woman who really knuckles down to the potential absurdity of such an event."
Underneath it all, u/Kvmnxdy at 4.2k: "I love whatever is wrong with Heidi Klum lmao." u/Not_A_Wendigo, at 1.9k, calls it "doing 'eccentric millionaire' perfectly".
The poster's background is not public.
3. "Marvel for Halloween but your wife is 8 months pregnant g" — r/MadeMeSmile
113k score, 818 comments, 92% upvoted. Posted November 1 by u/skumati99. 21
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The post is a video. In the frame the capture lands on, a man in a Captain America shirt steps through a sliding door onto a dark porch.
u/-MFozzy- reviews it at 10k with four words and an ellipsis: "…incredible! No notes. Perfect."
The thread's real subject is one costume detail. u/hamfist_ofthenorth, at 3.2k: "It's funny that the hulk hands are on backwards."
u/Kingnorth78, at 754, says it plainly — "Hulk smash...in REVERSE" — and u/DARKSTICKM, at 329, spells the whole thing backwards: "hsams kluh".
The pregnancy gets its own branch. u/desingleschokra at 2.9k: "Imagine fat thor walking into the hospital screaming 'I'm giving birth'."
u/internationalSale576 at 2.2k finishes it: "Finishes giving birth, throws the baby on the floor and screams, 'ANOTHER!'"
u/EmeraldOwl11, at 59, supplies the lived evidence: "I too was fat Thor while massively pregnant and everyone thought I was the dude."
The poster's background is not public.
4. "Second woman to ever lift the dinnie stones side by side - Angelica Jardine." — r/nextfuckinglevel
108k score, 2.1k comments, 97% upvoted. Posted October 27 by u/nigablackballsack. 22
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The video shows Angelica Jardine in a kilt lifting two granite stones by their iron rings, from a mat beside a road.
Its caption reads "SECOND WOMAN TO EVER LIFT THE DINNIE STONES SIDE BY SIDE (733#/332KG)".
The stones are documented. The pair at Potarch in Aberdeenshire weigh 188 kg and 144.5 kg — 733 lb together.
Donald Dinnie made them famous by carrying them across the Potarch bridge in 1860. 23
The same entry counts 22 women who have lifted them, the first in 1979.
A 97% upvote share is the highest of the five. Almost nobody argues, so the thread spends itself on jokes.
u/jameszenpaledin011 opens at 17k: "Are those heavy? They look like they weigh about two stone. 😐" Two stone is 12.7 kg.
Everything below is reaction gifs — "LOL THIS GUY" at 3.7k, "We are laughing" at 997, then Anchorman and Office stills down to 26 points.
The poster's background is not public.
5. "My uber driver texted me "I'm scared" then drove away & cancelled my ride" — r/mildlyinfuriating
108k score, 2.4k comments, 87% upvoted. Posted October 30 by u/ollypologies. 24
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The photo is a selfie: full zombie makeup, blacked-out eyes, a curly wig, a grey T-shirt.
He had finished a shift at a haunted house and wanted a hot dog.
"He arrived, rolled down the window and took straight off." The driver was called Imran.
"My last uber driver wanted a selfie with me, but this guy just straight up ran away."
He does not clean up before the ride. "I'm always exhausted and dirty after the shift so my goal is to get straight to my home asap."
The top comment, at 35k, is u/No_Bodybuilder7191 with a Thriller-era Michael Jackson image: "My Uber cancelled on me, weird huh?"
The poster answers at 7.4k: "This made me laugh I'm Ngl little too accurate there."
Then the thread changes subject. u/SNIP3RG, an ER nurse, at 3.5k, says he looks like "the individuals who wander in after a 4-day meth bender in the woods".
By 1.1k the moral has been drawn: "My takeaway from this is that the woods are full of people on meth." Homeowners arrive to compare notes at 603.
A self-described former tweaker, at 192, disagrees with the premise: "the woods at night... it's refreshing."
The poster's background is not public.
What the week actually shared
Eight videos, 486.3 million views. The two smallest channels here, Benjilo at 180,000 subscribers and ASA Hacks at 152,000, hold 184.5 million of them — 37.9% of the total.
One upload can be an entire channel. Benjilo's 104.9 million views sit against 104.0 million lifetime views across six uploads. The video is now most of the channel.
Five of the eight run under 80 seconds — 0:31, 1:17, 0:21, 0:15 and 0:32. The rest are a 2:26 story, a 1:57 ad and a 22:28 challenge.
Reach and reply pull apart. MrBeast takes one comment per 1,158 views and Benjilo one per 3,504. AuraShorts takes one per 34,552 and vivivibes one per 36,497.
One entry was an ad. Apple's 43.5 million views came with a 0.14% like rate, the lowest here, and the video went up the day its product did.
Halloween took all five Reddit slots in some form. Three posts are about costumes or candy. One is a strongwoman video posted during the holiday week; one is a haunted-house worker's ride home.
Reddit's biggest post had its weakest approval. 185k points on 77% upvoted, and the thread is a referendum on somebody else's marriage rather than on candy.
The comments did the content work. A costume became a pun chain, a world record became a "two stone" joke, and a costume detail became the whole thread.
References
- 1Kindness is P.O.W.E.R.F.U.L! — YouTube
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- 2Benjilo — YouTube
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- 3Piano-Black Luxury Suitcase — YouTube
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- 4ASA Hacks — YouTube
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- 5RICE 1 vs 1000 SMASH — YouTube
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- 6Shunkiwii — YouTube
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- 7Ranking Funniest Dog Moments — YouTube
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- 8AuraShorts — YouTube
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- 10MrBeast — YouTube
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- 12vivivibes — YouTube
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- 14Apple — YouTube
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- 16Why Dobermans Have Cropped Ears — YouTube
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- 17Zack D. Films — YouTube
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- 23Dinnie Stones — Wikipedia
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