Rachel Cruze jokes: "He Could Have Raised Me Better"
The playful Short has already drawn far more views than her usual first-day audience, with marriage jokes turning up in the replies.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 96,506 views a day, 9 times a normal first day on this channel (10,680).
He Could Have Raised Me Better
A viewer's family memory gives Rachel Cruze's latest Short an extra punch line: her mother still jokes that her husband raised her, decades after they married.
"He Could Have Raised Me Better" has reached about 70,000 views in its first 13 hours. That's already well beyond the roughly 11,000 views a Cruze Short typically gets in a full first day. The brief description keeps things playful rather than instructional, and another commenter singles out the video's custody wording. A few others ask what the joke means.
It's a lighter entry in a lineup where relationships and money regularly overlap. "My Husband Doesn't Like Me Going to the Casino" comes with Cruze's message about agreeing on spending together, while "My Boyfriend Has No Ambition" focuses on choosing a partner who shares your values. Here, the conversation has shifted from planning a life together to joking about who did the raising.
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What viewers say
“Custody of me” 😂
@drge1069See it on YouTubeRachel, my mother says the same thing! She was 19 and that was 54 years ago and she still reminds my dad that he raised her. 😂❤
@A_watching_tubesSee it on YouTube
Public comments from the video's page on YouTube
- Channel
- Rachel Cruze
- Subscribers
- 648,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 977,630
- Channel views, pace per day
- 159,888 (on a normal day: 114,379)
- Video published
- October 10, 2026
- Video views so far
- 70,348 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 96,506
The numbers
This Short has passed Rachel Cruze's usual first-day audience before its first full day is over.
💡 Test your knowledge
In Rachel Cruze's "Build Wealth in 7 Steps," which debt is excluded from the initial debt-payoff step?
Her second step is to pay off all debt except the mortgage, with paying off the home coming later.



