A dry snowglobe makes weather visible on karenxcheng

Karen X. Cheng's only new upload builds a live-weather display from a plastic dome, transparency film and a tablet.

Channel: karenxcheng Story of November 3, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

#GooglePartner I made a weather snowglobe! @GoogleChrome

The rain in Karen X. Cheng's snowglobe isn't water. A sheet of transparency film, tilted inside a clear plastic dome, reflects a tablet's display to put weather effects over the Golden Gate Bridge. The small but essential catch: the video underneath needs to be upside down.

That project supplied karenxcheng's only new upload this week, drawing about 10,000 views. It is a sponsored Google Chrome tutorial, with Karen using Gemini to work out the supplies and connect the display to live conditions through a weather API. One viewer asks whether the dome has to be glass; Karen's materials list uses plastic.

The bigger viewing story belongs to an older unfinished idea. Her sponsored typewritten-cloth jacket project is the channel's busiest video right now, attracting a much larger daily audience than the new globe. Karen's description credits @johnycarinomarquez with the sewing skills needed to turn her early fabric experiment into a finished jacket. The Cursor-built "dumb smartphone" also continues to draw views, fitting the channel's stated mission of inventing things to curb her smartphone habit.

Across the week, the channel added roughly 4.6 million views, while subscribers held steady. Daily viewing is now more than triple its usual level. Among nearby arts-and-crafts channels, The Koalas JJ had the largest weekly viewing gain, with karenxcheng next: a substantial week built largely around projects already on the shelf.

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The videos drawing views on karenxcheng right now

#GooglePartner I’ve wanted to make this for *years* and finally picke…4,835,441 views invented a dumb smartphone - built w/ cursor6,760,036 views I made this with grok bot so I don't have to check my phone in the mo…107,359 views

The numbers

Here is how karenxcheng's week looks in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

The Koalas JJ

20,836,137

karenxcheng

4,620,078

Create by K

2,460,637

Holly Auna

1,133,270

HappyBerry Crochet

241,771

Truegreen7

224,541

Daniel Silva

115,428

Tomorrows Filmmakers

114,652

Saurav Sinha

84,883

subscribers

1,060,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

690,120,070

views per day

1,294,090

typical day: 417,468

first-day views of each video posted this week

#GooglePartner I made a weather snowglo…

3,750

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Daniel Silva

1,180,000

Holly Auna

1,120,000

HappyBerry Crochet

1,070,000

karenxcheng

1,060,000

Truegreen7

1,060,000

The Koalas JJ

1,000,000

Create by K

971,000

Tomorrows Filmmakers

969,000

Saurav Sinha

951,000

As of November 3, 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.