dbrand is ASKING to get sued.... - PS5 DarkPlates
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2021-05-05
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912 words · ~4 min read
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(paper ruffling)
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- dbrand is obviously best known for making colorful stickers for your electronics.
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But the problem with stickers, is that it's hard to get them to stick
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to irregularly shaped objects, like the PlayStation 5, and,
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well eventually, no matter how precision cut they are,
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they can tend to have problems. Ah, here's my,
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oops, you got a little flappy doodle on my iPhone 12 Pro here.
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So, new idea. Inside this box is two things.
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One, is what they're calling Dark Plates. Replacements for the ugly PlayStation 5 side panels.
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And number two, is I'm expecting a bag of money.
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Because dbrand sponsored this video, and I did not say how much to pay for the video.
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I just said, surprise me. So, I promised that I would unbox
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however much they paid for this sponsorship, live.
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Live in front of all of you.
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So far, there's no bag of money.
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We've got some dbrand skins. I don't know what they're for.
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Oh, so it's just plates for the sides
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and they still have skins. All right, cool. And then inside here, we have allegedly, Dark Plates.
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I don't hear any bags of money.
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Okay. Purchased, delivered, you're welcome. install.
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There was only one correct way, dbrand.com/how
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Okay, we've got some packing materials.
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We've got a piece of plastic. How fun is that?
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It looks like they don't wanna get sued quite so bad after all.
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So the original PlayStation 5 cover,
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has little Xs and circles and triangles,
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like little tiny ones. And they've gone and they've put a more dbrand spin on that.
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So they've got little radioactive signs and
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skull and crossbones and, little robot heads.
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Actually, they did a shockingly good job of the detail of this.
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No offense, dbrand, you guys always do a shockingly good job.
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It's just never ceases to shock me, that's all.
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I would say that's pretty mad. The one disappointment I have so far is that
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I have yet to locate a bag of money.
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dbrand, you know how this influencer thing works?
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Okay, so I have the influence, and you have the bags of money.
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Maybe it's like one of those drug cars, David.
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You gotta, slice it open.
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Gold embedded in these, side panels.
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(rock music)
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I mean, they're clear, but you never know. It could be diamonds inside.
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(phone dial tone ringing)
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- [Voicemail] Your call has been forwarded to a voicemail.
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Your call has been forwarded to a voice. - Oh, you don't dodge my call so easy.
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- [Voicemail] Your call has been forwarded to a voicemail service, that has not been initialized
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by the customer you are calling. - Wow!
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Isn't that amazing? In the time between them
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sending this package and me opening it, dbrand went out of business.
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(laughter) The robot's voicemail is not even connected.
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Well, that's unfortunate. You know what? We're gonna continue the rest of this unboxing, but,
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I'm a lot less angry now that I know that they're going through such hard times.
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Unfortunately, I guess this also means that you won't actually be able to buy this product.
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But, that's okay 'cause at least my PlayStation 5
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won't be an ugly white mess.
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All right, let's pop this thing off. To remove the stock panels, all you do is pull up, and,
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pull up and slide. Man, this thing is so ugly
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I think it actually looks better raw dog. Now, let's go ahead and put on the,
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what do they call it? Dark Plate? Put on the Dark Plate.
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When I first heard about this project, I had kinda thought they were gonna go a different route
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and like do a thick plate that actually fills in kind of the weird shape of the PlayStation 5
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and makes it more, square. But, with that said, I mean,
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I don't know how you would do a mold for something that thick.
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So I guess it sort of makes sense that they'd just gone with
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making it a more unassuming color.
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Not bad and kudos.
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Kudos on the fitment job. This is like, some OEM grade plastic here.
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And I mean that in like a good way. Like, I wouldn't know,
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unless I looked real close and saw that these were like you know, the wrong little texture things here.
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That this isn't just an official PlayStation 5,
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ugly, you know, color thing.
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Okay, so I'm just gonna, I'm going full yellow up in this place.
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I believe that is a, "Nailed it" moment.
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Look how perfectly that lines up at the back.
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So that's it. That's a dbranded PlayStation 5.
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I think I was supposed to be the first one to show one. But based on that they break all their other promises
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and don't exist anymore as a company, it's possible that other people have uploaded videos with it already.
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But hey, we tried, Thanks to dbrand for sponsoring this video,
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you worthless liars. And thanks to you guys for watching. Don't forget to subscribe to ShortCircuit.
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I mean, okay, they didn't lie. They did surprise me. I was, expecting
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to actually be paid for a sponsored video. This is, quite unusual.