The number of channels dedicated to restoring cars, building dioramas, making knives/tools, restoring old electronics, inventing new electronics, cooking, painting, etc etc... it's truly awesome (in both meanings of the word) and I personally love that Youtube has brought all this to the world.
I don't even watch TV/movies anymore, I just have 200+ subscriptions to talented makers of all varieties, even stuff I personally have no intention of ever trying, just because it's so great to watch.
After all that, I don't really fault people enjoying some things being crushed, same reason lots of people like seeing big crashes in motorsports or big explosions. It's a part of human nature.
Watching what happened when he compressed a book was very very scientific to me, I've wondered that for ages, and the answer was not what I expected at all.
The scientific value you get depends entirely on the questions the viewer has. I'm 100% certain that there's at least one object that any particular viewer is curious "what would happen", as opposed to just "see it break".
I would love to crush my phone or laptop sometimes.
I also really enjoy the 11foot8 channel. Pity they raised the height of the bridge.
The helicopter is far less destructive and people get to moral grandstand? It's highly efficient.
Perhaps need to find a different comparison..
How do you measure what's on other peoples' minds?
First-world countries are spoiled and don’t have to make do - easy to run over the latest iPhone with your car and get 1.3M clicks. I agree; it’s lazy.
Not Russian, but as a Hacker News old timer: “old soviet tools restoration” [sic] by “Great idea” on YouTube is what you’re after. (Restoration of rusty old anvil.) It’s very hacker meta... building child tools to fix the parent tools is heartwarming, and at some level reminds me of many a build script.