Hair, mouth or jaw? Howard Lee's 'Who is this?' viewers debate the giveaway

The answer is settled as Tom Holland, so the comments now argue over the exact stroke that gave him away, while an older short from the same series wakes up too.

Channel: Howard Lee Story of October 3, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video is running at 304,819 views a day, 17 times its usual pace (18,385).

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More than half of the views on Howard Lee's "Who is this?" short came in a single day, sixteen days after it went up. It is now close to half a million, and the comments arrived even faster: more than 4,000 since yesterday.

The game is simple. Lee builds a face in pencil, one feature at a time, and leaves the name out. The answer is no longer much of a mystery. Most viewers agree it is Tom Holland. The real contest is over who got there first and from which line. The most liked replies split viewers into teams: those who knew from the hair and those who knew from the mouth. Others name the lips, the jaw, or a moment around 58 seconds. A few admit to wrong turns along the way: Ryan Reynolds after the ears, Adam Sandler for no reason they can explain, Iron Man until the jaw went in.

Holland is familiar ground here. Lee's August hairstyle short tagged with the actor is close to 15 million views. An earlier "Who is this?" from July, already past three million, is climbing again today. Between them, the channel's daily views are running at more than twice their usual level.

It is a lighter form for an artist whose channel is built on hyperrealist drawings and photorealist illusions in Prismacolor, Copic marker and pastel pencil. His newest short stays in the Marvel world: Wolverine, drawn in his video game version.

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The numbers

One short from mid-September is doing most of the work, with an older one from July helping it along.

views per day, this video

typical day

18,385

now

304,819

subscribers

2,440,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

1,662,916,516

views per day

1,210,184

typical day: 555,541

the video

views

494,116

likes

11,998

comments

6,947

days online

16

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Howard Lee

2,440,000

coolirpa

2,390,000

All New Bricks

2,340,000

naztazia

2,330,000

Film Riot

2,260,000

StudioBinder

2,260,000

As of October 3, 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.