Video taking off 9.3x its usual first day

Reighar's Circus Tree leads to an orchard on one trunk

A thread about grafting, upside-down trees and living sculpture drew nearly ten times the channel's usual first-day Shorts audience.

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Reighar Story of October 20, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 645,791 views a day, 9.3 times a normal first day on this channel (69,097).

Circus Tree 🌳

Six sycamores woven into a single living structure are only the starting point. Reighar's tree-grafting Short follows an online conversation that keeps finding stranger answers to the same question: what else can you persuade a tree to do?

The upload drew an estimated 646,000 views in its first day. It is a particularly busy pocket of Reighar's channel while overall daily views are running below their usual pace.

This isn't a gardening demonstration. A narrator reads screenshots of social media posts over Minecraft parkour, moving from the braided Circus Tree to a post recounting an upside-down tree experiment at the University of British Columbia. The thread then reaches artist Sam Van Aken's Tree of 40 Fruit, a grafting project that brings different varieties of stone fruit onto one tree.

The final example takes the idea onto city streets: the thread describes San Francisco's Guerrilla Grafters attaching fruit-bearing branches to ornamental trees.

In the comments, viewers pick up on grafting's invitation to experiment. Some ask for more about Van Aken's tree; another remembers a grandfather twisting neighboring trees together as they grew. Others connect the living sculptures with biopunk, imagining a science-fiction aesthetic made from growing things rather than machinery.

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What viewers say

I love how everyones reaction to grafting is just "How far can we take this?"
@Leo-ll5bnSee it on YouTube
Had a grandfather who had 2 trees growing next to each other and twisted them now the tree is twisted
@spunkysgarage2008See it on YouTube
Bio punk is a genre that doesn’t get nearly enough love
@Th3InternetJesterSee it on YouTube

3 more comments

Let's talk about the Tree of 40 Fruits.
@peterbear4413See it on YouTube
TREE ART. Where are the elves that did this? This is gorgeous.
@peoplefirst2028See it on YouTube
Every college botany department needs their own chimeric tri-fruit tree. Possibly every back yard.
@MrQuantumIncSee it on YouTube

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