Ah yes, the nonstop content farmers. You got to hate them most of the time especially with the way they produce content. It's exactly what happened with a commentary channel I talked about a few weeks back titled Pointless: The Age of Garbage Commentary. Check out that post if you're interested but anyways today, we are going to talk about a garbage channel just like the rest and that is 5-Minute Crafts; a so-called arts & crafts channel that does what you would expect it to be however promotes dangerous life-threatening acts. Even worse when they switched the content around to pump out more videos within a single day, going for the quantity over quality.
5-Minute Crafts isn't created by an individual, it was created by a company called TheSoul Publishing which is based in Cyprus, Russia but also has a US based headquarters (I might talk about this company in another post because not only they own this channel, but they also operate many other channels). The channel was created on November 15, 2016, and the first video was uploaded the next day titled "5 essential DIY hacks that you need to know." From there they would upload videos regularly (on a daily basis) and a primary example of this is when they uploaded a video on February 14, 2017, titled "19 COOLEST DIYs YOU CAN MAKE YOURSELF." One of their most viewed videos on the channel was titled "42 HOLY GRAIL HACKS THAT WILL SAVE YOU A FORTUNE" which was uploaded on December 3, 2017, and the video itself was a joke in itself and this is where the bottom of the bin comes into play.
Why Their Bad:
Clickbait Videos and Content Farming / Dangerous Hacks:
It doesn't come to a surprise that when these types of channels come along, they always go for the clickbait route and stick with it and it's so bad that it used to be on the frontpage of YouTube when it was still trending. It also sucks because 5-Minute Crafts actually used to do actual arts and crafts stuff as well as hack videos. For whatever reason they decided to change their format and thus resorting to the content farming. Back then, 5-Minute Crafts would pump out 6 to 8 videos within a single day, but that number has dropped down to 2 videos per day which I guess it's an improvement but that's not saying much. The strangest thing is that this is not just the only channel they operate but they have other channels from a post on Reddit:
- 5-Minute Crafts DIY (originally called 5-Minute Crafts GIRLY)
- 5-Minute Crafts PLAY (originally called 5-Minute Crafts KIDS)
- 5-Minute Crafts REPAIR (originally called 5-Minute Crafts MEN)
- 5-Minute Crafts TOP (originally called 5-Minute Fun)
- 5-Minute Workouts (it's been inactive for 4 years)
i know i talk about them a lot but 5 minute crafts is really out here telling kids to put strawberries in bleach burying the fact that they’re toxic and should not be eaten in the description. how is this okay? pic.twitter.com/6XHtv5CJW8
— jarvis johnson (@jarvis) July 20, 2019
5-Minute Crafts is also known to have several issues including the ability to do dangerous hacks. A YouTuber by the name of Jarvis Johnson made multiple videos on 5-Minute Crafts explaining on how the hacks and crafts don't work and the excess content farming. An example of this is when he posted to twitter about how 5-Minute Crafts did an experiment by putting strawberries and putting them in a cup of bleach. They don't say to eat them but doing this is completely absurd. Another example is when they used flame-based items like lighters to burn Starbucks cups as well as making a homemade flamethrower. Keep in mind that this is just one of the channels so it's supposed to be "meant for the whole family." Of course, YouTuber's like ThreadBanger, How to Cook That, Jay Exci, Brad Mondo and several others made videos exposing the hacks.
But wait it gets even worse from there. As the drama ensues and more videos are coming out about the channel, another thing they did was making hacks related to activated charcoal and going so far as to ingest large amounts of it (shown above). The worst part is ingesting too much activated charcoal will cause nausea and vomiting. There is a change.org petition about it and while it's not as popular, the petition has little over 800 signatures. Honestly, YouTube needs to step their game up and should ban these channels for good because what they're doing is just plain terrible.
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