Eddie Vedder, Damon Albarn, Kim Basinger: the Verity cast's childhood crushes

A short cut from BuzzFeed Celeb's co-star test with Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett has gone further than the full fifteen-minute video it came from.

Channel: BuzzFeed Celeb Story of October 4, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 353,278 views a day, 20 times a normal first day on this channel (17,797).

🤫 don't tell leo 🤫 Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett take the CoStar Test!

BuzzFeed Celeb's co-star test with the cast of Verity runs about fifteen minutes, with chapters on love languages, karaoke songs, craft service snacks and favorite swear words. The piece that went furthest is one small slice of it: childhood celebrity crushes.

Posted on Friday, the short passed half a million views in about 30 hours, a far bigger start than a short on this channel usually gets, and well ahead of the full test it was cut from. Its comment section ran about nine times busier than usual, and it reads like a 1990s record shelf. Viewers say Hathaway's answer was Eddie Vedder, the Pearl Jam singer, and Johnson's was Damon Albarn of Blur, and plenty of them write that they had the same crush. Hartnett's answer, Kim Basinger, gets its own thread, with a nod to her Vicki Vale in Tim Burton's Batman. The title's whispered "don't tell leo" never says which Leo it means.

Hathaway, Johnson and Hartnett star together in Verity, the thriller adapted from Colleen Hoover's novel, and the channel has spent the week cutting the test into smaller pieces, from pet peeves to a short about umbrellas in the rain. The comments notice the chemistry too: Hathaway and Johnson teasing each other, and a few moments when the two talk right over Hartnett.

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The numbers

A short from a long celebrity quiz, and a start far beyond what this channel's shorts usually see on their first day.

the video's first day

usual first day here

17,797

this video

353,278

subscribers

4,280,000

total views

2,247,475,389

views per day

477,580

typical day: 403,507

the video

views

502,038

likes

7,982

comments

74

days online

2

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

GameofThrones

4,880,000

BuzzFeed Celeb

4,280,000

60 Minutes

4,210,000

BBC Studios

3,880,000

Crypt TV

3,810,000

VH1

3,540,000

As of October 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

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