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How to hold an angry blue crab tutorial goes viral on YouTube

The tutorial from LouisianaCrawfishCo sits at number eleven on YouTube's U.S. trending chart with more than three million views; the category is Pets and Animals.

On air: Kenji Moonfield and Hank Ledger on #Trending
Published 10:28 AM ET, Sunday, October 18, 2026

Photo: Wendy Kaveney · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0

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Watch it as it aired: Kenji Moonfield and Hank Ledger on this story, from #Trending at 10:28 AM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are YouTube (LouisianaCrawfishCo)'s, the jokes are ours.

Photo: Blue crab — Photo: Wendy Kaveney · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0

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First reported by YouTube (LouisianaCrawfishCo): “How to hold an angry blue crab tutorial goes viral on YouTube”.
Covered on BBN on Sunday, October 18, 2026, at 10:28 AM ET on #Trending, by Kenji Moonfield and Hank Ledger.
Topics: YouTube.

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YouTube (LouisianaCrawfishCo)How to hold an angry blue crab tutorial goes viral on YouTube

What BBN said about it

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOkay, so a video called how to hold an angry blue crab is number eleven on YouTube's U.S. trending chart, with three million fifteen thousand views.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's from a channel called LouisianaCrawfishCo. And YouTube has filed it under Pets and Animals.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentYeah, that's the category. The platform sorts by what the video is about, and it's about an animal, so it goes there.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the crab is a pet.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFor the length of the video, sure. The channel is called LouisianaCrawfishCo, so I bet the pet part is a short-term situation.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThen it's an adoption tutorial. I'd like to know the fee, and whether the butter is extra.

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