The Unlikely Empire of Sax Vidos UPD: How a Bathroom Recording Became a Global Phenomenon

And as the latest Sax Vidos UPD video loads—a split screen of a baker slipping on flour and a tenor sax playing a rising scale—millions of viewers agree. Chaos never sounded so smooth.

With fame came scrutiny. A viral exposé claimed that some of the most popular “UPD” moments on the channel were staged. The infamous “Sink Explosion of ’22” ? A rigged water heater. The “Cat vs. Chandelier” ? A very well-trained stunt cat named Mr. Wiggles.

The resulting video—a 47-second loop of a blue G-Fuel can exploding, sparks flying from a motherboard, and Jules playing the sax solo completely unfazed—was pure chaos. He captioned it: (a misspelling of “Sax Videos UPDated” that stuck).