The YouTube “marathon” for Creature Commandos has turned into another embarrassment for James Gunn and the DCU.
Viewers on social media reported the live airing peaked at only about 300 concurrent watchers — numbers you’d expect from a small fan channel, not a YouTube channel with over 5 million subscribers and certainly not for an official DC rollout meant to hype Gunn’s universe.
The turnout lines up with what we already knew: Creature Commandos failed to make the Nielsen streaming charts during its HBO run, confirming it was one of DC’s least-watched originals. Gunn’s Peacemaker on HBO also lost nearly 40% of its viewers.
A whopping 300-plus people are watching Creature Commandos on Youtube right now
— Enrico (@nxtwrtr) December 23, 2025
Creature Commandos goes free on YouTube and it garners a whopping…330 views in its launch livestream.
— •The Last PhotoMax• (@SupesBatsy) December 22, 2025
The DCU is such a funny and sad failed experiment 💫 pic.twitter.com/FEMuZCrY4z
DC Seems To Have Removed the Episodes
Adding to the strange rollout, the episodes no longer seem to be available on DC’s official YouTube channel. There doesn’t even seem to be a link to the feed anywhere online.
As of now, the channel only shows the Superman Fortnite live stream in the “Live” section, with no trace of the Creature Commandos marathon streams.
Whether the videos were pulled due to low interest, technical issues, or to avoid public view counts is unclear, but the optics aren’t great.
The episodes were slated to air on Dec. 22 and Dec. 23, so we’ll have to check back tomorrow to see if they return. Maybe they’re available only for a limited time each day?
Another Sign the DCU Launch Isn’t Connecting
Creature Commandos was supposed to be the big opening act for Gunn’s rebooted DCU. Instead, the series underperformed on HBO, and now even a free YouTube push can’t draw more than a few hundred viewers.
Gunn has repeatedly insisted his DCU is “for the fans,” but the numbers keep showing those fans simply aren’t showing up.
