Hi there. Welcome to the second episode of Foreign YouTube,
the series where I select a foreign country for my YouTube account, and then check out the trending tab
to watch some of that country's most popular and therefore best videos,
while presenting them to you along with my hilarious, fascinating, illuminating commentary.
It's just like traveling to that country, but without having to learn anything.
The subject of today's video is Thailand, a country with picturesque beaches,
fabulous spicy food,
and more gold medals for vaginal ping-pong than any other country in the world.
Now, I don't know about you, I could talk about reproductive organ sports all day,
but I think that'll have to wait for another video.
For this video, let's just get straight to that trending tab.
The first thing I noticed about the Thai trending tab
is that they have an insane proportion of videos related to food and drink.
I found this one, this one, this one . . . (I say "this one" a bunch of times.)
That's 15 videos out of a total of 80 in the trending tab.
Thailand, you're obsessed with food.
It's really not healthy. You might want to think about taking up another hobby.
Anyway, I watched all of those food videos so you don't have to,
and I'm going to show you some of the most interesting ones.
First, we've got "Deep Fry Chuan Chuan in Office" from "Ms Yeah."
This channel I guess is actually not Thai, but it's trending in Thailand,
so what the hell, we'll watch it.
So, the guy's pet fish have just died. Very sad.
And he decides to burn them in a funeral pyre.
Quite normal.
And then his friend, Ms Yeah, takes the tub away, because, just . . . too many bad memories.
And then she has an idea.
If you're thinking her idea is to throw the toaster into the tub of water and see what the hell happens,
unfortunately, you're wrong. That would be really cool, but it's not really Ms Yeah's style.
Instead, she gets some tools, removes the heating element from the toaster,
cuts a hole in the tub,
uses her tin snips to cut a hole in some sheet metal,
which I guess they just had sitting around the office,
installs the toaster heating element in the hole, and then . . .
toasts a piece of bread on it.
So, Ms Yeah is clearly a very handy young lady, but . . .
You removed the heating element from the toaster in order to . . . make toast on the bottom of a plastic tub.
Um . . .
in the next video is she going to show us how to . . .
remove the motor from your fridge and then
install it in your closet so that you can have a . . .
a cold closet . . .
to keep your food in?
But her plans don't end with making toast.
She's also going to put a big steel bowl on the heating element and then fill it with oil.
And now, uh, the guy from the beginning is eating his dead pet fish.
And, ya know, that should be a lesson to all of us:
Don't waste your pets when they die, people.
Feast on their corpses.
So, going back to Ms Yeah, she now has a big platter of food,
and she's going to do some deep-frying right there at her desk.
Again . . .
I mean, if you want to do some deep-frying at your desk, and your coworkers aren't bothered by that,
okay, I can dig it,
but why use this probably really dangerous toaster element–plastic tub set-up?
Couldn't ya . . .
Couldn't you just buy a little deep fryer?
Or, uh, maybe a hot plate with a—with a pot on it?
Too easy?
And, actually, that's not the only video of Ms Yeah's along those lines.
In this one, she wants to grill some food, so . . .
What are you gonna do?
Obviously, you're going to destroy a filing cabinet in order to make a smokey grill
which is probably contaminating your food with all the chemicals from the paint on the cabinet.
I guess if you were to sum up Ms Yeah's channel, it would be . . .
Hey, everyone, welcome to my new channel Mr Yup.
Today, I'm going to show you how to make a DIY kitchen knife.
The first thing you'll need to do is break a plate.
Uh, then we can grab one of those shards and use it to . . .
use it to cut some cucumber.
Don't be shy. Yeah, there we go, okay.
Uh, you can also use it to cut some butter.
And there you go. It's just like a knife.
Anyway, let's get back to the deep-frying video.
Ms Yeah does a whole bunch of frying and then invites the sad, pet-fish-eating guy over to have some . . .
I guess to cheer him up?
Eating his pet fish didn't make him happy enough?
And, they just have such a nice time eating together.
Uh, we get some lovely food-going-into-mouth close-ups.
That is always so charming.
And then the video ends with this.
So, he wants to know if she finds him handsome, and then . . .
he fries up some lotus root.
And I guess the Chinese word for lotus root, "chi ou,"
is similar to "chou," the Chinese word for ugly.
It's a sad ending?
And the next most interesting Thai food video I found was this one, from the channel Peach Eat . . .
Lake?
Lack?
I'm not really sure.
So, the subject of this video is Peach—
I'm just going to call him "Peach"—
and his friends ordering a ton of food online and then . . .
eating all of it.
I checked out some of the other videos on his channel, and that seems to be the basic formula.
It's not really about eating weird or challenging food,
or eating really, really great food,
it's just about getting a tremendous amount of food, and then . . .
devouring it.
And so, good for him.
Good for peach.
Watching people stuff their faces is fun,
and he does something really smart in this video, which is, every time there's a major cut,
he flashes the logo for his channel.
That's 15 times in one 11-minute video.
And this is such a good idea, because it ensures that you never forget what channel you're watching.
Guys.
You know, sometimes I'm sitting and I'm watching . . .
my Jake Paul,
And halfway through the video, I'm like . . .
Is this Vsauce?
So . . .
ya know.
Anyway, really smart on Peach's part, and actually.
I've
been
thinking
about
doing
the
same
thing
on
my
channel
too.
P.S. You're watching Dan Hauer's channel.
Now, there is one thing I'm going to criticize in Peach's video, which is he has an unsettling habit
of looking directly into the camera while taking a bite.
Maybe it's just me, but . . .
There's something not right about that.
And there is one other thing I want to show you in Peach's video
in order to solve a mystery of Thai internet culture for you.
Well, I did a little searching, and it turns out that in Thai, the number 5 is pronounced "ha."
So . . . "555" . . . "hahaha."
Do you get it?
It means . . .
The next video I want to show you actually was not in the trending tab, it was just in my recommendations.
This one from SoftpomzChannel.
It's got "challenge" in the title.
Can't resist that.
Now, because of the food videos we just watched, you might be worried that this is the cat-eating challenge,
but I really don't think that's the case.
A couple countries over, in Vietnam, where I live, incidentally,
cat-eating is indeed a thing,
but when I Googled "cat meat in thailand lol,"
the results suggested that it's not common there.
So I don't think Softpomz is going to be eating any cats here,
even though in the thumbnail, that does look oddly like strangling a kitten.
You're just too god-damned cute!
So let's take a look at a condensed version of this video and try to figure out what, exactly, the challenge is.
I think, and I'm not being facetious here,
I think it was the . . .
If that's the case, she failed miserably.
She was giggling the whole time.
And you know what, Softpomz, you're not the only one who can make a
"Try not to giggle and say 'awwwww' challenge" video.
Here's my version.
Okay, guys, I hope you're ready to try and hold back those giggles.
Oh, awww, it's so cute!
Well, I failed.
When I got past the rats, I thought I was home free, but then . . .
the maggots got me.
The next video that caught my eye wasn't so much because of the thumbnail.
I mean, it's kind of neat,
but the thing that really got my attention was the channel name:
"OKyouLIKEs"
I ask you, how could you say "no" to that?
So let's see what kind of intro they have.
Wow!
The only problem is that when you have an intro that great, how is the rest of the video going to live up to it?
So, in the video itself, we've got this guy who appears to be our host . . .
and this multi-use Rubik's cube furniture thing . . .
along with rotating walls . . .
and, uh . . . oooh, a disappearing swimming pool.
And one more video I want to show you is this pretty bad-ass–looking one with Ganesh.
Uh, the first half of the video is a somewhat hard-to-follow interaction among several deities.
But the heart of the video is when we get to see some of these deities . . .
uh . . .
fly through space and time.
Uh . . .
I think we ought to take a closer look at that.
All right, here we go.
Yeah, bro, I'm as amazed as you.
I went ahead and made a little supercut of the best moments
of magical animals flying through the cosmos.
Fair warning: shit's about to get a little weird.
Wow, that was pretty cool, and I—
What the hell was that?
Get out of my house, you deities!
I don't believe in you!
Well, guys, I'm now recovering from . . .
from the assault I suffered.
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