Wow. Who knew that existed?
Heh, I always have to resist buying the kits because a) the instructions are all in japanese and b) I donāt own a microwave. There are some fun ones where they then actually EAT the things they made. Apparently the burger and fries one tastes like mcdonalds, which is awesome and terrifying. 
4 Likes
Yeah its nice to see things come back to life.
1 Like
I love Taofledermausās videos. Pretty much the whole channel is hundreds of videos of weird stuff people mail in, that they put in 12 gauge shells, and fire out of old beatup shotguns.
Thereās even a community of CNC people who make new projectiles out of exotic materials that are weird shapes to shoot out of shotties.
Turns out supersonic terminal ballistics are dominated by air resistance, so most of the designs donāt work very well, even though they would at subsonic speeds. Lots of people send in dart shaped stuff, but of course that all tumbles badly.
3 Likes
William Gibson describes them in, I think, the second book of the Bridge trilogy. Whether they were a thing or not already, Iām not sure. Probably, but you never know.
2 Likes
Angry pedantic letter writing to game companies count as a genre?
1 Like
Hereās a mini-genre I discovered: āAmigaā song dramatic sing-along.
3 Likes
Been watching a lot of these lately.
4 Likes
Iāve had endless frustrating conversations with my teenage nephew about this, who will sit with headphones on and watch videos of other people playing Minecraft for hours at a stretch, often as part of a chatroom where he and other people comment on the video while itās playing, so I get hours of āNo! Donāt put that there! What the F? Oh my gooooddd!!ā
He doesnāt like playing Minecraft because itās ātoo much workā. Watching it played is ālike watching footballā, he says. I think heās just lazy and uses it as background noise as an excuse for online chat.
4 Likes
Closely related to pimple popping videos are the whole genre of blackhead removal videos, some of which have 4 or 5 million views.
3 Likes
This channel was featured on BB a couple of months ago. Any video showing how specific manufacturing or agricultural processes work would keep me interested for hours.
My kids watch Pokemon Go videos all the time, although my son likes playing it too. My daughter is also teaching herself ballet and gymnastics with Youtube videos, so itās interesting to see her interests develop.
5 Likes
ewwwwww, thatās nasty
4 Likes
Obvious one that isnāt in here but hydraulic presses crushing stuff.
The superior channel is the HydraulicPress Channel. Something special about his accent and his wife giggling at everything.
8 Likes
Apparently todd metal videos are a thing.
2 Likes
Apologies in advance.
I wonāt link to the actual channels, youāll have to choose to go down that road on your own, but hereās a review from the team over at h3h3.
2 Likes
I donāt see how your argument is valid. As far as Iām concerned you just backed up his point.
I like watching games because Iām just bad at them. Itās more fun to watch people who are good at them, or at least entertaining.
3 Likes
I could watch Quake competitions and Street Fighter tournaments all day.
2 Likes
We appear to have picked on different people.
I canāt understand how they canāt understand. 
3 Likes
Heh, I donāt understand how people enjoy watching baseball. Itās boring as hell. You can watch for 3 hours, and the āmost excitingā thing would be a team pitching a āperfect game.ā You know, where nothing happens. Nobody gets onbase.
That couldnāt possibly be more interesting than watching someone freak out playing Resident Evil. Or get salty getting their ass whooped playing CS:GO.
4 Likes
I like proper tourneys where you can hear the audience react and maybe even they have some competent commentators. Although hearing the crowd lose their shit at some pivotal moment is the best. This reminds me of a specific video, if you understand the game mechanics you can appreciate why the crowd reacts they way they do. To an outsider itās just a video game.
To an insider itās face melting, religion starting stuff.
ETA: Hereās a reddit thread that highlights some of the stuff going on in that moment. Iāve read a better explanation before but canāt seem to find it.
Ah, itās actually linked on web archive in the thread:
5 Likes
