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DumbJuice short 'Bro's Survival Instincts Kicked In' tops 40 million views

The short was uploaded October twenty-sixth and sits at number nine on YouTube's U.S. trending chart; its description is only generic comedy hashtags.

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  1. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA YouTube short called Bro's Survival Instincts Kicked In, from DumbJuice, has forty-one million, one hundred eighteen thousand, four hundred seven views, and it's number nine on the U. S. trending chart.

  2. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorWhat happens in it?

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe description says #funny, #jokes and #funnyshorts. That's the scouting report.

  4. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThree times he declares comedy before the clip even starts, and the tape backs him up.

  5. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThat's a man announcing the joke is good and the crowd going along with it. It was uploaded October twenty-sixth, so five days of this.

  6. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe turning point is the title. Survival instincts kicked in. Everybody knows exactly where to look.

  7. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFinal score, then: forty-one million for the hashtags, zero for the description. You're calling me a meme, aren't you?

  8. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorForty-one million, one hundred eighteen thousand, four hundred seven people have seen it. I've seen the hashtags.

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