We all need a good dose of mindless destruction every now and then. In the eighties we left that responsibility to action movies, but now the magic of YouTube gives us access to much stranger and more absurd situations. In recent days, social media made a couple of videos go viral showing a hydraulic press destroying everything in its path. A quick search led me to the official channel, and I must admit its content is very satisfying....
The Unexpected Entertainment Factor
Hydraulic presses can develop an impressive amount of force. After all, they managed to smash something like the first Terminator (!), but in real life they have dozens of different applications. One of them... is to serve as an unexpected means of entertainment on a YouTube channel. Let's think about it for a moment: What would we like to crush? Personally, I get along quite badly with remote controls, credit/debit cards, and the occasional mobile phone. One of the most famous YouTube channels involves a man with a blender and strange objects inside it. Why shouldn't something similar happen with a hydraulic press? That said, let's look at examples from the Hydraulic Press Channel, whose creator lives in Finland:
The First Ten Videos
The channel has only ten videos, but I guarantee you want to see every single one. In one, he tries to challenge the myth that a sheet of paper cannot be folded more than seven times; in another, he chooses a golf ball as the victim, and his latest demonstration features an ice hockey puck. In this case, the vulcanized rubber of the puck gave a bit of a fight, but in the end it met the same fate as most other objects: It exploded due to the pressure.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/VaBxQPgQwrMViral Growth
The spread of the videos on social media had a huge effect on the channel, which went from a few thousand followers to more than 170,000. This also accelerated video production, as four appeared in less than a week. Between the operator's broken English, the laughter of who appears to be his wife, the “extra content” at the end of each video, and the expectation of seeing more things crushed, the Hydraulic Press Channel has already earned a privileged place in the YouTube world.
