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Vsauce's phenylalanine soda puzzle outpaces its brown sugar fix

Two sugary uploads, two days apart, and the more philosophical one is moving roughly twice as fast.

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VsauceStory of September 27, 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.

The Ontological Status of Phenylalanine In Sugar Free Sodas

Vsauce sits just past seven billion lifetime views, and both of this week's additions to that pile came from the pantry. "The Ontological Status of Phenylalanine In Sugar Free Sodas" went up first, and a week later it is still the busiest video on the channel. That is a title that asks what an ingredient in diet soda even is, and a lot of people wanted the answer.

Two days later came something far more practical: "How To Fix ROCK HARD Brown Sugar." It is doing well, just at about half the pace of its older sibling. The kitchen fix, it turns out, drew fewer people than the metaphysics of a soda label.

The third video with real momentum is a month old. "Audio Palindromes" is the channel's biggest recent video by total views and still draws a steady daily crowd, though both sugar videos have now passed it on pace.

Among the science and experiment channels, Vsauce still has more subscribers than anyone else, with Veritasium the closest behind.

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