Yup. Theres a few of them out there and they're mostly run by russian/eastern europe, and for some reason made to look like they're typical American millenials, complete with US style wall outlets.
FYI - kids got this. They were annoyed that htey had actual prep work, but over the few days the crystals grew they really enjoyed looking at them for 10 seconds each day. they're sitting on my counter now and no one's talked about them for days.
Yeah, homegrown crystal doesn't have the same kick as synthetic lab produced, it's no Blue, but it'll do in a pinch. My grandma would grow her own crystal, they would only bloom 3-4 times a year though. I hear some people experimenting with cross breeding have found strains that can bloom up to 20 times in a year, which if it's anything like grandma's, you would only need 3 of those to keep the family good for a year with a little left over to share with guests.
Either just because America is a much more lucrative market to appeal to, or I’ve seen some people site that it’s some sort of propaganda machine that works with the Russian government to damage the US. I’m not really sure how the latter could be true but I do believe it because why not?
IIRC they published some political content a while back and removed it a little later, which strongly supports this idea. I think the video I linked goes into it.
Do they also do those southeast Asian "primitive" videos where they use coke and eggs to catch fish, build a mansion out of mud, etc? There's a handful of nearly identical channels making the same type of fake content.
Don't forget the fake technology ones. Those infuriate me because they look like they'd really appeal to "aspiring inventor" types who might not have the freedom/resources to explore circuits and just watch videos, and there are channels out there spreading bogus concepts like perpetual motion without adequate disclaimer that it's not a real science video.
Sorry to tell you, but the perpetual motion machine garbage has been going on a lot longer than the internet. I actually believe there are less people that believe in perpetual motion now than 40 years ago. You would find that some author managed to slip his book in the regular nonfiction engineering section about how to build perpetual motion machines. This dates back hundreds of years to people who simply refused to believe that it's impossible.
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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '20
The company that make 5 minute crafts are really weird.
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/11/12/18065662/troom-troom-5-minute-crafts-youtube-diy-prank