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Video taking off 7.8x its usual first day

Chabba tends a sizzling pan beneath a baobab

Two cooking Shorts draw unusually fast starts on HADZABE TRIBE LIFE, one observing the cook and another promising a lesson for visitors.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 110,958 views a day, 7.8 times a normal first day on this channel (14,241).

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A large metal skimmer turns pieces of meat in hot oil, with stones supporting the pan over an open fire. Another man sits behind the cook, watching. On HADZABE TRIBE LIFE, the cooking needs no spoken explanation: the soundtrack is the crackle of the oil.

The Short, titled "Hadzabe bushmen Chabba with most secret bush meals today", has drawn roughly 83,000 views in fourteen hours. That already puts it well beyond the channel's usual full first day for a Short, around 14,000 views.

Despite the title's promise of secrets, this is an observation rather than a recipe. Beneath a baobab tree, the cook turns the food, lifts a substantial piece of meat to inspect it, then continues frying. There are no ingredient captions or spoken instructions.

Chabba's cooking is also drawing attention in a companion upload, "Hadzabe bushmen Chabba teaching visitors bush cooking skills", which has attracted almost the same audience over the same period. Both follow "Chabba's favorite activity is cooking natural bush food", making the person at the pan a recurring presence in the channel's bush diary.

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The facts
Subscribers
2,330,000
Channel views, last 7 days
837,312
Channel views, pace per day
231,349 (on a normal day: 105,957)
Video published
October 21, 2026
Video views so far
82,847 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
110,958

The numbers

Both cooking Shorts have already passed the channel's usual first-day views, with time still left before their first full day is complete.

the video's first day
usual first day here
14,241
this video
110,958
subscribers
2,330,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
1,473,132,155
views per day
231,349
typical day: 105,957
the video
views
82,847
likes
404
comments
2
days online
1
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
Outdoor Tom
2,240,000
LISHARKMAN
2,190,000
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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