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Video taking off 14x its usual first day

A home run pauses for the mannequin challenge

Fuzzy's baseball clip revives a familiar internet ritual, with viewers watching the pitcher as closely as the batter.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 285,098 views a day, 14 times a normal first day on this channel (19,892).

he brought 2016 back 👏👏he brought 2016 back 👏👏

Bragg has already sent the ball deep and started toward first base when he stops giving the crowd a conventional home run celebration. He freezes mid-stride. "Black Beatles" plays, and the baseline becomes a place to hold a pose.

The baseball clips channel Fuzzy shared the moment under the title "he brought 2016 back 👏👏", a nod to the year the mannequin challenge turned standing perfectly still into an internet event. The song by Rae Sremmurd featuring Gucci Mane became the challenge's signature soundtrack.

Here, the contrast does the work: a big swing, a cheering crowd, then a runner refusing to move. An off-screen spectator supplies the immediate response: "No way he just did that!" After holding the pose, Bragg spreads his arms and resumes his trot.

The Short drew roughly 285,000 views in its first day, compared with Fuzzy's usual start of about 20,000. Its comment section was also around four times busier than usual.

Several viewers focus on the background rather than the home run, pointing to the pitcher's wait and glove throw as an extra piece of the routine. Others have a more practical request: they want to see the finished mannequin-challenge video being filmed on the field.

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The facts
Channel
Fuzzy
Subscribers
640,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
15,087,142
Channel views, pace per day
1,541,601 (on a normal day: 2,150,487)
Video published
October 21, 2026
Video views so far
350,535 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
325,120

The numbers

The mannequin-challenge clip drew a much larger first-day audience than Fuzzy's usual Short, with a busier comment section too.

the video's first day
usual first day here
19,892
this video
285,098
subscribers
640,000
▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days
total views
1,657,742,183
views per day
1,541,601
typical day: 2,150,487
the video
views
350,535
likes
6,977
comments
67
days online
1
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
D1 Kuumo
693,000
Fuzzy
640,000
ESPN MLB
564,000
As of October 22, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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