we're not perfect oh I just dropped One
ow ow you're roasting
me just we've made mistakes wait what oh my
God holy and even our most Ardent Defenders
have to admit that out of our more than 6,000 videos we've made a few that are
below average a couple that are pretty bad
and if we're being totally honest with ourselves we have made some absolute
stinkers well it's time to stop hiding
and face our shame to celebrate our 10-year anniversary as an independent
company I'm bringing on some of our ogs to help me react to the worst videos
we've made in the last decade I'm talking our most disliked cringeworthy
unprofitable videos that will leave you either full of secondhand embarrassment
or so bored that you just want to turn off the screen and contemplate a
lifestyle completely free from technology so you never have to
experience something so awful ever again but you won't do that because if you did
you wouldn't get to experience our reaction to our Folly and you wouldn't
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here is the bad LT playlist this one's a
bit before your time uh not much so today I'm going to be having a quick
look at a new product from ASUS it's kind of like a random product I don't
know where this came out of total left field here but it's called This is a USB
cable to give you some idea how this
video came to be I was still working at NC the computer store and there's a
certain number of videos I had to make a month to get my full bonus if we got to
the 25th 26th 27th of the month and I wasn't very close I started just walking
around the warehouse grabbing almost literally any bull I hadn't made a video
about yet and filming an unboxing this is a 2-minute 20 second video of a cable
that yes I promise you I do not even
plug in so that's that's kind of neat so you
can kind of you can do this with it very nice wow you can pull back the
for skin on it so I guess all we're going to be able to do here is have a
quick look at the Crosslink product and then I'll have to post my thoughts on
the uh annotations in the vide I don't know whether I ever did that those are
gone now this was 12 years ago but if I did they're gone yeah oh it's Luke
revive your old laptop be what was so bad about this what do we might possibly
doing one- handing a laptop is it raining why are you in sweatpants they
leave nothing to the imagination but before we do that let's
explore what it's like like to use this thing with the hard drive in it this
takes so long oh my God we were so bad
at making videos how did anyone watch any of this I think I I would have
either left the video by now or disliked and left the video by now to be fair so
they see the saw they see the face shield and then he just swaps the hard
drive for an SSD and you've taken 3 minutes to get to that point are you
going to do anything else check out this video where I detail how to make a test
bench for basically free and I'll see you next time no wonder he got canned
from the writing team hey man it's a good tip let me tell you when someone
wants to sponsor a video featuring their wireless headphones their projector
their charger vacuum their Robot vacuum
the writing Team Works overtime trying to find something tangentially related
that is actually interesting and then to shoehorn the product into it that is
what you are about to witness Sony reached out to sponsor a video about
their new wh1000 xm4 headphones we've got this cool pair of wireless
headphones that no one wants to hear about and we basically turn a UST store
unit into a theater that has the
headphones as the audio device so no one
knows you're in there I guess what does building a theater in a storage locker
have to do with wireless headphones especially when the only part of the
video that I've seen where you you listen to audio you were listening it through the TV speakers when you work
with a company like Sony who happens to make a
soundbar and a TV and a game console
there's a lot of politicking that seems to take place over at that company so it
came out of the headphone group's budget but I mean heaven forbid we show
anything non Sony that Sony happens to make as well probably the stupidest
thing about this video is that it was shot before the PS5 came out but
released after the PS5 came out due to delays on their side so we were
showcasing a sick compact home theater with a PlayStation 4 and it was so much
work finding a place that would let us film in their like you store like this a
huge security concern
yeah this is classic how is this one of the worst things we've done people
didn't even dislike it they didn't watch it I disag oh the actress we hired to be
like a background dancer in our rap video thought that she was like getting
a ride to the Sky Train after and I was like how on Earth am I going to drive
you anywhere I can barely even get into my car Taran who didn't have any
experience driving stick had to drive me home because I was like buried in this
armor in my car which was standard this
shoot was an absolute disaster thinking
how can I turn this around being an imperial instead of being a clown oh we
didn't bleep it we just muted it yeah so that's one of the things that people
hated about it is that there was some kind of miscommunication in the edit
that's not great I wanted it censored I
think censoring is comedic yeah and I intentionally wrote like really cringy
lyrics for it yeah cuz I wanted it to just be like full of bleeps essentially
but you don't just like remove the entire audio track no I arrived at the
scene about 10 minutes after dispatch got the call it was easy enough to dety
in the cause of death but the real mystery is why it happened I think this
may be the worst I don't even know what
accent this is supposed to be Chicago Brooklyn do you want to jump in for this
one kind of thing before sometimes things get rough they hit the ground
never get up again open and shut case
but this was different looks like might have
been my mom made fun of me before during
and after this shoot for having no idea
how to handle a cigarette it was also a conscious decision that Brad Pit style
Luke would be eating in every single shot fast and Powerful a look at too
this was a gameing notebook with all the latest PA what's even worse than my
cigarette handling is my accent though and Isa Isaac the actor that is actually
the actor who was in this video was training him on set how to speak in both
a Boston and a New York asset and we were just trying to pick which one was he less bad
at so it was fall then nah this notebook was still running
when it hit the ground but that didn't last for
long that's so bad you may have never heard of final
Mouse the company responsible for the creatively named final Mouse but despite
its obscurity I tried so hard to turn
that into a host yeah I think he just
didn't want it that hard he didn't want to yeah yeah he was very qualified to
make this video and even the packaging is bare with just a small slip of paper
with instructions and a final Mass sticker very passionate about mice and
mouse pads and actually lots of things and when you talk to him about this
stuff he's fine but you point a camera at the poor guy especially back then
this is the first one I felt actually improved my game it's just so light and
responsive I remember how many times we did this take two not to like it was not
his fault it was just it was a hard thing yeah to do so this is something
new it's called Tech Showdown and if you don't like it TS get it may the tech
Showdown videos didn't work they were so hard too oh my God absolutely grueling I
think the funny thing to remember about this is we had so little resources at
this time even though we had the office and everything I'm using a piece of diffusion to divide this video set a lot
of people have asked for scard war to come back and this was actually an
attempt to continue this kind of spirit
of scrapyard Wars but in a way that wouldn't destroy our entire production
schedule for an extended period of time it didn't work out that way it doesn't
help that Luke and I are at arts and
crafts yeah yours is boring I stand by
it yours is
I stand by that too it's on Enthusiast
Hardware where we first see the innovations that trickle down to the
mainstream stuff a couple of years later why is this so hated welcome to a bit of
a new style video for me I'm calling it a micro review people don't like micro
reviews I guess just least viewed
video well that's why we don't cover Motorola phones anymore Yep this video
actually starts with an incredibly frustrating moment for me now this
motherboard arrived and I was like Christmas
time why did we private this it has
804,000 views you know what I think I
remember people were so mad the bathroom
about me like hanging it off the edge of a cardboard thing to screw it in from
the bottom that I was just like I don't feel like dealing with this anymore I'm
just going to set set it private for a bit and then you never and then I guess
I never fixed it I have privated so few
videos in the history of the channel That Never Thought to go back yeah even
some of the videos that are supposed to be private aren't private and I haven't
gone back to fix them because when the channel was hacked a few years before we
actually went Indie part of restoring the channel was That Google restored the
channel every video public private deleted deleted was back up I was like
oh okay I mean I knew they don't delete anything but wow they really don't
delete anything since when is this full-size Tower more attractive than
this little HDMI stick they're both
computers and the impossible standards set by the media all computers are
beautiful and you're going to hurt the little compute stick's
feelings yeah so you can keep your scummy hands off of it this is terrible
I'm so uncomfortable this is really bad I don't remember this literally at all
I've like blocked this out like a trauma the definition of the Intel compute
stick is actually rather simple it's an Intel-based computer on a
stick that was great writing
L the first six unique items are Windows 8.1 with
Bing
what okay this is pretty funny that was all right right okay you ready yeah are
you sure you're ready for this actually hold on a second let me just let me just
fix the well no you don't it's it's already set I I set it up before we did
anything this was this was your idea this bit was your idea I 100% I argued
against it and I 100% apologize it was a terrible idea he had to make it seem
like oh well lus is going to do the camera now because I'm in front of the camera for this video and we've wasted
already 30 seconds kids used to be so
bad hey guys what's up br oh I'm talking so loud why am I screaming oh yeah I
remember this the cell phone flashlight going over the shot like that I know
that trick all of Brandon's personal SD cards at work that's true yep yep we
already had a no personal stuff at work policy by this point I think don't we
still needed a lot of people's personal stuff s years ago maybe not yeah I don't
think soas cards are slightly overclocked here and here I'm going to
take a baseline idle temperature reading so I'm at 6765
voice sounds so different in the background and the cat is moving the
projector don't do that is this even a Channel people watched you know this is
our least viewed video ever let's see if we can fix that guys get in there watch
the gra video watch the gra welcome to another RC Arctic hobby unboxing this is
the aqua Rider 703 Tugboat people love
the fir truck did they not like the aqua rider firet truck was a fluke Loop IM
imagine watching a video where someone unboxes an RC boat and doesn't even
bother to put it in water so we're doing a bit of an in progress shot here we got
to love that editing like hold on a sec
cut dip to Black our extra tires are
deposited gracefully on the deck it came
with a lot of extra tires I'm not sure
why now something to bear in mind guys is this one does not come with a remote
so you have to get a transmitter so we'll be unboxing that one and then
trying this guy out hopefully uh on a
lake or Pond or bathtub near you yeah
hopefully you're not going to know from this video I'll have yeah haha right you
guys saw the title where I said I'm unboxing the MacBook Air clearly that
was a lie this is the ASUS Zenbook 13.3
in Ultra I no I'm just kidding I actually am unboxing the MacBook Air but
before you hit the dislike button it's for a very good reason it's so I can
compare it against the ASUS Zen book so
the MacBook Air tried to do people into thinking that you were a laptop from
Intel and then tried to dup them and then undo them you was clickbait and
left that's actually really funny they
didn't watch long enough to see that it was a joke hello and welcome to part two
of my Blackberry eyes switched I'm slick and this part two will be a continuation
of last time where it's just more of a general use case of the phone every time
people tell me like man you're such a good host whatever I'm like you haven't
seen the Blackberry video it would be nice if like the camera app if I held
one of my notifications it would open the app that corresponds with that
notification I hadn't slapped at all the night before I asked an if I could
shower before I filmed it and he's like no we don't have time so my hair is like
going in a bunch of weird directions oh the idea was that I had done an I switch
to Windows phone series for 30 days and
I was kind of like vlogging updates as we went it was kind of cheap easy
content and it performed pretty well so I was sitting here going oh yeah you
know it would be crazy Luke you should do like a switch to Blackberry you
weren't very good
yet my hair looks like a spaceship like it has a pointed front and it has wings
on the back you actually look like someone who doesn't know how to do their
like goms remember all those videos we did of
coverage at CES well Western Digital remembers them
too God this was one of the worst brand
deals that I ever signed we needed it we
had to go but they asked for the world
got to give them credit for negotiation they wanted set
videos covering a storage company at a show one time is really hard we were
desperate to get any views on any of this and this is what desperation looks
like what the hell and the more views
those videos get the more crazy insane
stuff we get to give away once we get back from the show the orange handle
isn't that an axe yes it is why now when
I say crazy I'm not talking like your
average run I can't watch it anymore no no you got to keep watching no no then
we get to give away two Western Digital 1 TB Velociraptors two 4
terb did Aon shoot this but I haven't
even revealed the grand prize yet if the
video's average why is she Mar read to
me this cannot continue to
exist welcome to the Prototype build of
the pizza heater computer the idea is you put a slice of pizza on here and
your computer keeps your Pizza
Warm yeah the computer should keep the
pizza warm you tried to take cold pizza
still got a million views
you know I think that was the argument back in the day too that like this video
went out it still performed okay for the
time even though it wasn't not at all the concept that you approved I said all
you got to do is make sure that all the hot air is funneled up to the metal
plate the miscommunication was that the pizza was
supposed to already be hot I don't know what his problem was
these are two 98 TI they should have a pretty good amount of thermal
output then there was the anti-gb PC
this ended up getting 3 million views wa
that's a lot of dislikes a lot of views but people were so mad at us for sprain
for spray painting the hardware and turning it black why um it was actually
the motherboard that people were really mad about this was probably not the best
way to do this James was pretty new this right here is the design that
made James Dyson like like that James
Dyson go to his team and say you know
what guys all these other upright corded vacuums blow him up this was not
entirely my fault the Scandal or the controversy was that all the major Tech
creators were sponsored by Dyson on exactly the same day yeah it was
terrible people subscription boxes got absolutely flooded with these videos
making them pretty angry thankfully we
came away pretty unscathed relative to some other guys who just were like I'm
vacuuming and I love this thing so much
this is definitely my real thoughts about it I really didn't say much about
it at all I just did a studio tour and then
happened to be vacuuming a lot this is our most disliked video this year really
you need to get a media server L I have
a Google Drive where I keep my photos I didn't realize how kind of hated Plex
had become over the years the timing of the release for this was that it came
out right after the security breach that's never going to go well not great
took me a while to find that that that was that was BS that was BS right there
that was this is one of those ones where we had to make a video about a product
that we didn't really have anything to say about so we made a video about
something else entirely we got this one wrong I thought people might be kind of
interested in basic game development tools and what you could do as a
relative lay person in a relatively short amount of time he looks very
excited to be in this
video we used to upload behind the scenes of our ad productions for
companies to LT to help promote the ads
did not work and I guess this was our least viewed video that year
what am I this is just classical music and like [ __ ] so far everyone looks
so young I remember Brandon's
transitions what is this run
run what what was that for I don't
know oh yeah that's bad hey hey these are some pretty good stunts though
okay this is the allnew one series from
BMW a line of sports Prett economical hatchbacks that might surprise you this
was one of the most difficult brand projects we ever did everyone that was
on the trip when they came back like I didn't even get to see the video and I was like this is going to be rough we
flew all the way to Germany I shoot the intro in front of BMW World we've got
this shot where like the rep flips the keys to me and I get in the car we get
driving and halfway through the day
whoever the coordinator was for this project apparently has no idea how video
production Works kind of goes no we
don't want to use any of that we don't want any BMW representatives in the
video we don't want any BMW buildings in
the video they didn't like the disclosure that I had that it was
sponsored because it makes it feel too commercial I'm like it has to be it is
they had us throw out literally everything that we had shot and back
then you'd only have one day I only had one day and then towards the end of the
day they were like well you can just stay another day I'm like no I actually cannot stay another day this video is is
the reason that we have a clause in our sponsor contract that they are only
allowed I think it's two edits maximum every time it went back to them it would
go one layer up the management chain and
they would want to have their say on it and we just had this video sitting for
months unable to release it when we needed stuff for the
schedule wa it's real unlike project Valerie
which we saw last year at CES from Razer this one actually makes an ounce of
sense this product ended up being a complete grift oh no it looked credible
enough for a pre-production product but this never got any farther than science
fair project and they just are still taking people's money that's right it's
back in the studio and in this video we're going to see the solid gold Xbox
controller we should never have made the gold controller I thought this was going
to go like kind of viral I can't believe they made a gold controller timing we
could yes it's stupid I get it oh my goodness oh my goodness I can't believe
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