KATSEYE: fan‑cams dominate

The first KATSEYE clips winning the post-Coachella YouTube race were not the festival’s own uploads. They were fan-shot 4K fancams from the Sahara set on Friday, April 10. (youtube.com) Three of the quickest-rising videos were a “PINKY UP” fancam, a “GNARLY” fancam and a “Golden” collaboration clip featuring EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami, all uploaded by the channel L Yap within hours of the set. Search results on April 12 showed the “Golden” fancam at about 147,000 views, the “PINKY UP” fancam above 70,000 and the “GNARLY” fancam just over 1,000 shortly after posting. (youtube.com 1) (youtube.com 2) (youtube.com 3) Coachella’s own YouTube account was also posting official performance videos from the same set. Its upload of “Gnarly” said KATSEYE performed on the Sahara Stage on Friday, April 10, and had reached about 285,000 views 10 hours after posting. (youtube.com) The split matters because fancams and official clips do different jobs. The official videos document the set, while fan-shot uploads isolate individual members, crowd reaction and guest moments that tend to drive early online debate over who stood out. (youtube.com 1) (youtube.com 2) KATSEYE’s Coachella debut already had extra attention around it before the first clips spread. Rolling Stone reported that the group performed as five and premiered “Pinky Up” live, while Manon Bannerman was absent from the stage. (rollingstone.com) That absence had been explained weeks earlier. A Weverse notice said Manon would take a temporary hiatus from group activities to focus on her health and wellbeing, and the group would continue scheduled activities during that period. (weverse.io) The guest spot added another layer for search and recommendation systems to pick up. Forbes reported that KATSEYE brought out EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami, identified as the real-life singers behind HUNTR/X from Netflix’s “KPop Demon Hunters,” to perform “Golden.” (forbes.com) Setlist data and Coachella’s lineup pages place KATSEYE at the festival’s first weekend, April 10-12, 2026, with the group listed for the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. Fan uploads from that first-night Sahara performance were already being grouped into playlists by April 12, a sign that viewers were using audience-shot clips as the working archive of the set. (coachella.com) (setlist.fm) (youtube.com) By the morning after the show, the early conversation around KATSEYE was being organized clip by clip, not set by set. On YouTube, the fastest handles on the moment were the fans holding the cameras. (youtube.com 1) (youtube.com 2)