The Daily Downshift gives a Tesla a paint-color meltdown

The animated touchscreen disaster is heading toward an estimated first-day audience nearly five times the channel's usual for Shorts.

Channel: The Daily Downshift Story of October 24, 2026Trari Newsroom

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 540,112 views a day, 4.9 times a normal first day on this channel (109,602).

My Tesla Went Crazy 🌈 😢

Tapping the touchscreen won't stop this Tesla from changing colors. Punching it only adds a cracked display and an error message to the driver's problems.

The Daily Downshift's "My Tesla Went Crazy 🌈 😢" combines real car footage with stylized 3D animation. It is a fictional comedy sketch, not footage of a Tesla malfunction: the color changes escape the screen and spread across the moving car's exterior.

The Short has drawn roughly 488,000 views in 19 hours. Its joke keeps escalating beyond the broken screen, with a trip toward the repair shop somehow causing surrounding drivers to slow down and line up behind it. The roadside inspection supplies the explanation.

Among the comments, one viewer says they expected a rainbow transformation. Others keep returning to the narrator's pronunciation of Tesla rather than the traffic jam.

Car trouble is also giving some older uploads another milestone. Both "DON'T sleep in the CYBERTRUCK" and "My Tesla Went Missing! 🕵️ (Fiction)" have passed a million views, adding to the channel's collection of Tesla misadventures.

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The numbers

The color-changing sketch is running well ahead of the channel's usual Shorts start. Its projected first-day total is an estimate, not a completed day's count.

the video's first day

usual first day here

109,602

this video

540,112

subscribers

285,000

▲ 9,000 in the last 7 days

total views

616,683,040

views per day

3,332,954

typical day: 2,519,268

the video

views

488,100

likes

3,999

comments

36

days online

1

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As of October 24, 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.