Sugar becomes sculpture in Great Big Story's Berlin artist visit

Joseph Marr's glass-like creations share the upload shelf with a food trip through Missouri.

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The Sugar Sculptures Visitors Can’t Stop Licking

Joseph Marr works with an ingredient more familiar to a donut shop than a sculpture studio. The Berlin-based artist uses 3D scans, molds and cooked sugar to make glossy forms that, as Great Big Story's title announces, some visitors end up licking.

"The Sugar Sculptures Visitors Can't Stop Licking" was the more-watched of the channel's two new uploads, reaching about 16,000 views. There is an interesting tension beneath that tempting surface: Marr's work explores impermanence and transformation, yet the description says his oldest pieces have lasted fourteen years. Viewers are discussing the hygiene of shared licking, while one asks for more opportunity to hear the artist himself.

Sugar also figured in the week's other release, "Everything We Ate in Missouri on Route 66," although here it belonged firmly on the menu. The stops range from pineapple cream cheese pastries and frozen custard to Springfield-style cashew chicken and Lambert's thrown rolls.

That journey has a longer companion. Posted two weeks ago, "The Ultimate Missouri Food Guide (Route 66 Edition)" remains the channel's busiest video by daily views. Food critic Jason "J" Lee takes the trip from St. Louis to Ozark, meeting Wing and Ling Leong along the way to explore the story behind Springfield's cashew chicken.

The subscriber count held steady, while daily viewing is running roughly half again above its usual level. Nearby food channels Nick's Kitchen and BeardMeatsFood had much larger viewing weeks; Great Big Story's own momentum remains concentrated in that Missouri road trip.

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The videos drawing views on Great Big Story right now

Everything We Ate in Missouri on Route 6612,798 views · 2026-10-09 The Ultimate Missouri Food Guide (Route 66 Edition)91,275 views

The numbers

Here is Great Big Story's week in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Nick's Kitchen

20,010,877

BeardMeatsFood

19,223,322

Andy Cooks

11,735,593

Kyle Istook

7,107,942

Cooking with Kian

5,053,744

Jamie Oliver

2,587,975

Great Big Story

1,292,804

subscribers

6,290,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

2,787,805,205

views per day

255,929

typical day: 167,824

first-day views of each video posted this week

The Sugar Sculptures Visitors Can’t Sto…

10,351

Everything We Ate in Missouri on Route …

4,480

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

BeardMeatsFood

6,890,000

Nick's Kitchen

6,400,000

Andy Cooks

6,340,000

Epicurious

6,320,000

Kyle Istook

6,310,000

Great Big Story

6,290,000

Jamie Oliver

6,220,000

Cooking with Kian

5,950,000

Guga Foods

5,870,000

As of October 16, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.