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"1,2,3,4 or 5?": The Smily Fam asks, and the comments answer four

Thousands of viewers turned the family's guessing-game Short into a vote, and most of them backed the same player.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 2,523,542 views a day, 80 times a normal first day on this channel (31,694).

1,2,3,4 or 5? 🤔1,2,3,4 or 5? 🤔

The title asks viewers to choose between five numbers, and the comment section settled on its answer almost at once: four. "1,2,3,4 or 5?", a Short The Smily Fam posted on Thursday, passed two million views in its first fifteen hours, on a channel where a new Short more often ends its first day in the tens of thousands.

The title gives nothing away, and the video leaves the verdict to the people watching, a habit this family has built many of its game Shorts around. This time the audience took the job seriously. A Short here usually gathers a couple of dozen comments on its first day. This one drew thousands, most of them a single vote. "Team 4" is the phrase of the day, and one of the most liked replies casts player four as the tortoise of the old fable, the one who wins by being slow and steady. Others single out players two and four for the best reactions at the end, and one viewer, who admits to always picking five, concedes that four took this round.

It was not the family's only good start that day. "Last One Standing Wins!", posted alongside it, also ran far past a usual first day, though at roughly a third of the pace. And the uploads keep coming: by the next day a basketball race, a "Biggest Fish Wins!" round, a game of pop tic-tac-toe and a Halloween edition of the board-sorting game had joined the shelf.

All of it lands with the channel within a whisker of five million subscribers, after adding tens of thousands of them in the past week.

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What viewers say

  • Such a fun family game! Number 2 and 4 had the best reactions at the end! 😂
    @Rianasilva-v8jSee it on YouTube
  • 4 it's pretty hard to tell though
    @ZionDalton-o3iSee it on YouTube
  • Sorry, number five. I always go with number five, but this time number four won, and that's so sad.

    Everyone, number four won
    @MiAyannaWadeSee it on YouTube
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The facts
Subscribers
4,980,000 ▲ 80,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
331,696,611
Channel views, pace per day
26,410,476 (on a normal day: 41,695,549)
Video published
October 8, 2026
Video views so far
2,009,390 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
2,523,542

The numbers

Two Shorts from the same day both raced well past the family's usual start, and the comment count on the guessing game stands out even more than its views.

the video's first day
usual first day here
31,694
this video
2,523,542
subscribers
4,980,000
▲ 80,000 in the last 7 days
total views
15,772,607,615
views per day
26,410,476
typical day: 41,695,549
the video
views
2,009,390
likes
14,051
comments
3,687
days online
1
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
Wu’s World
5,790,000
Shonduras
5,330,000
The Smily Fam
4,980,000
As of October 9, 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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