Huntington Beach vs. Santa Ana: two very different scenes on a Mexico World Cup game day

Same county, same game, two different vibes. A Juice Unlocked reel posted June 25, 2026, compared how Huntington Beach and Santa Ana showed up while Mexico played in the World Cup.

It opens in downtown Huntington Beach, where a woman in a Mexico jersey, playing reporter, finds mostly quiet sidewalks. Then it cuts to crowded streets, presented in the reel as Santa Ana, filled with fans in green jerseys, flags and colored smoke.

Surf City: quiet

"Reporting live from downtown Huntington Beach. Nobody's out here," she says as the camera pans across palm trees, storefronts and a mostly empty walkway. Then she asks where everybody is watching the World Cup games.

“Reporting live from downtown Huntington Beach. Nobody's out here. Where is everybody watching the World Cup games?”

Santa Ana: packed

The answer, according to the reel, was Santa Ana. The rest of the clip shows fans crowding around a red pickup with a Mexico flag across its hood, people waving flags and filming on their phones, red smoke drifting over the crowd and cars inching through the street as fans cheer around them.

The post does not say which Mexico match it was, the final score or exactly which Santa Ana streets were shown.

The reaction

The reel drew more than 4,300 likes and more than 500 comments on Instagram.