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Flat pumpkins become candy bags in JJ Shankles' heat experiment

A screw-on green stem holds the reshaped halves together in his Creality K3 project.

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Re-Melting 3D Print into Pumpkin - Creality K3

JJ Shankles posted nothing new, yet his channel added nearly two million views over the week. That was a substantial audience among nearby gadget channels: Wire & Plug had a particularly busy week, while JJ Shankles and Joe Cirillo drew similar weekly totals.

The most active upload is a small making project with a clever change of shape. In "Re-Melting 3D Print into Pumpkin - Creality K3", JJ prints flat, multicolored jack-o'-lantern meshes, softens them with heat and presses them into a pumpkin mold. Once cooled, the curved shells become candy containers. The green stem isn't just decoration: it screws on to hold the two halves together.

That turns the K3 from the subject of his earlier first look into a tool for making something tangible. The Short has reached about 1.9 million views and is drawing far more daily viewing than the other uploads currently carrying momentum, "SparkX i8 Filament Changing Mechanism ⚙️" and "Creality K3 First Look 🤯".

Subscribers held steady across the week, and daily views are a little below the channel's usual level. For an upload-free stretch, though, the flat-to-curved pumpkin demonstration gives the back catalog a very specific job to do: show that the shape leaving the printer needn't be the finished shape.

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The videos drawing views on JJ Shankles right now

SparkX i8 Filament Changing Mechanism ⚙️522,589 views

Creality K3 First Look 🤯92,456 views

The facts

Channel: JJ Shankles
Subscribers: 329,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 1,897,426
Videos published this week: 0

The numbers

Here's how JJ Shankles' week looks in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

5,772,704

1,897,426

1,831,570

1,189,106

795,935

788,189

262,598

224,685

43,237

subscribers

329,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

371,834,493

views per day

241,715

typical day: 271,276

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

351,000

350,000

337,000

331,000

331,000

329,000

321,000

321,000

310,000

As of November 8, 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.

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