Tyler Vitelli cracks a 'secret code', and his viewers check the sum
The comedian's short about an emergency number drew comments twelve times faster than usual, many of them redoing his arithmetic.
Why this story? The video drew 14,442 comments in its first day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (1,206).
How did I figure this out #relatablestories #comedy #funnymemes
"How did I figure this out" is Tyler Vitelli's newest short, billed in its description as the story of how he found "an insane secret code" and promising that the ending is actually funny. Judging by the comment section, the code links 911 to "12", the street slang for police, and the punchline rests on a sum that does not quite work.
That sum is what everyone wants to talk about. Short after short of replies sets it out with ticks and crosses: 9 plus 1 plus 1 makes 11, not 12. Some admit they nodded along until they did the math themselves. Others turn it into brain-cell jokes, a mock rule about confusing your enemies by confusing yourself first, or a reversal in which Tyler is the one who failed his math teacher. A few bring geography into it, noting that in Australia the number to call is 000.
The views on its first day, close to four million, were about normal for a channel of 9.18 million subscribers. The talk was not: more than 14,000 comments in 24 hours, where his shorts usually draw about 1,200. It went up the day before a busy Thursday on which "Fork + Spoon = 🤔", another invented-shortcut joke, passed two million views.
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What viewers say
"to confuse your enemies, you must confuse yourself first"
@K_InMyBuildingggSee it on YouTube+12 braincells❌️
-12 braincells✅️
EDIT 1:thanks of the 5.3k likes 🔥🔥@KobeCarag-t8nSee it on YouTubeFor a second i thought tyler was actually gonna cook😭
@PKRampaiSee it on YouTube
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Math teacher failed tyler❌
Tyler failed math teacher✅@MaxMellooYTSee it on YouTube"No braincells were harmed in this video"
@Zenix-kSee it on YouTubeMe thinking it was right until I actually started calculations
Edit :not to be that guy but so many people was thinking same as me I thought I was gana get hate lol@vxmptxt_yay2See it on YouTube“No brain cells were harmed in this video!” no braincells were used in this video 😭
@KyliePhillips-q6jSee it on YouTubeBro failed his math teacher😭
@Sofie-r1oSee it on YouTubeIn Australia, they call 000 for the police lol
@IEatedUrFridgeSee it on YouTube
Public comments from the video's page on YouTube
- Channel
- Tyler Vitelli
- Subscribers
- 9,180,000 ▲ 160,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 190,070,693
- Channel views, pace per day
- 20,982,742 (on a normal day: 27,465,675)
- Video published
- October 7, 2026
- Video views so far
- 4,602,411 (2 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 1,152,509 (on a normal day: 4,234,842)
The numbers
The views were ordinary for this channel. The comment count is where this short stands apart.
💡 Test your knowledge
Some viewers point out that a different number calls the police elsewhere. In which country is the emergency number 000?
Australia's national emergency number is Triple Zero, 000, while the UK uses 999 and Germany and Japan use 112 and 110.


