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Dhar Mann's 2018 video on stay-at-home moms surpassed 200 million views

Dhar Mann · Dhar Mann Studios: Dhar Mann · Apr 29, 2024 · at 56:19

Dhar Mann, founder of Dhar Mann Studios, describes the breakthrough viral live-action video that launched his digital media company after previous formats failed.

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“And sure enough, that video within a few hours had gotten thousands of shares and over a million views. And I'll never forget. It was posted on August 30th. And today that video has gone to receive over two hundred million views.”

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The claim, plainly

Dhar Mann's video about appreciating stay-at-home moms, posted on August 30, 2018, gained over 1 million views in a few hours and has accumulated over 200 million views.

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Assessment

Dhar Mann's claim is partially true: he did produce a viral video depicting a husband taking his stay-at-home wife for granted in late August 2018 (originally published August 24, 2018, with circulation on August 30, 2018), and it became a massive viral hit that reached 129 million views on Facebook by February 2020. However, the 200 million view figure does not attach to that single video; rather, historical documentation (including Mann's March 4, 2019 article for Foundr) confirms that 200 million views was the cumulative milestone across his entire video catalog in his first six months, which Mann conflated with the single upload's lifetime count.

Original Facebook post records show the stay-at-home mom video was published on August 24, 2018 (circulating through August 30, 2018) and reached 129 million views as of February 16, 2020.
Public indexing does not confirm the single video upload surpassed 200 million standalone views prior to April 29, 2024.
A March 4, 2019 Foundr article authored by Dhar Mann confirms the 200 million view figure represented aggregate organic views across his entire portfolio of Facebook videos rather than this single upload alone.

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