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I can't watch Electroboom because he always gives himself shocks in every video. Don't care that they are small or it's set up, I can't stand watching it, makes
by kzrdude 4y ago
I can't watch Electroboom because he always gives himself shocks in every video. Don't care that they are small or it's set up, I can't stand watching it, makes me ill. Seems to be interesting stories he's telling otherwise though, so it's a shame.
- donatj 4y agoWhy so? That’s honestly the whole reason I started watching him years ago, he was the dude who shocked himself.
- jakear 4y agoThey’re an empath
- ntoskrnl 4y agoI'm a fan of ElectroBoom, but I have to agree, some of them are pretty horrifying to watch. The Jacob's Ladder video sticks out in my mind - I still can't decide whether it was staged. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g1z47U_kZQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g1z47U_kZQ
- kzrdude 4y agoThat's the one where he has said it was not staged, if I'm not mistaken. According to comments here https://old.reddit.com/r/ElectroBOOM/comments/7gnt46/that_jacobs_ladder_video/ https://old.reddit.com/r/ElectroBOOM/comments/7gnt46/that_ja...
- zrobotics 4y agoThe Amp hour podcast interviewed him, and he confirmed that that wasn't staged; he considered leaving it out since it was legitimately dangerous. https://theamphour.com/562-electroboom/ https://theamphour.com/562-electroboom/
- kouteiheika 4y agoIIRC in one of the interviews he had he said that it wasn't staged.
- wongarsu 4y agoI think he's great. Often you have people preaching cargo-culted safety rules without communicating the reasons for them, when you then see other people blindly disregarding those rules without apparent ill effect that reinforces people to do stupid things. Mehdi/Electroboom shows you what you can do, and why it's dangerous; usually by shocking himself, blowing something up, or having stuff catch fire. He isn't teaching mindless, disprovable safety culture, but showing you the actual boundaries you have to respect. As such he has both videos of "let's shock me with lowly increasing voltage to see when it starts to hurt" and "ranting about badly wired wall sockets and lack of GFCI in this hotel room".
- quasarj 4y agoIt's supposed to be funny. Why does it make you sick?
- kzrdude 4y agoNot everyone is the same or thinks the same way. Maybe I'm more scared of electricity than others, don't know? (Extended) family have died in accidents, too, so it's a well-respected hazard in my family.
- hef19898 4y agoBecause promoting baf safety habbits around potentially dangerous stuff to clueless people is a bad idea?
- imtringued 4y agoAre you really saying that telling clueless people that they will get painful shocks encourages bad safety habits? If you show a kid a video about someone intentionally putting e.g. a fake hand on a stove and it getting severe burns and faked screams, what's the likelihood of a child following the video to get the same sick burns vs a video showing that it is perfectly safe to touch the stove?
- hef19898 4y agoA video showing work, while ignoring safety pratices, promotes bad safety practices. People that know to work save will still do, people wothout a clue will start DIY projects ignoring safety. And get hurt. I consider this to be a bad thing.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoSome of the shocks are completely fake. For example, in the classic electric guitar video [0], if you advance frame-by-frame and capture the frame containing the flash [1], it is obviously Photoshopped in. Poorly, I might add. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwIvUbOhcKE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwIvUbOhcKE [1] https://imgur.com/KBOX11K https://imgur.com/KBOX11K