Somewhere in YouTube-land, there’s a man named Tito4re (no, that’s not his real name), who is spearheading an interesting trend – molten metal craze. It’s a universe where people who like to see things burning gather – virtually, of course.
When a friend told me about it, I thought it was similar to a shooting range where people went to let off steam – again, virtually, of course. Otherwise, why would you want to burn or see things burn, unless you are a pyromaniac?
But then, the minute I stepped into Tito4re’s YouTube channel...I got sucked in. Maybe, I am a pyromaniac (a notion that I am sweeping under the carpet, right away; don't want to add to my craziness any further.)
Tito (I am not going to call a person Tito4re, okay) melts copper to 2000 degree Celsius and pours it over random things – rubber bands, shoes, coconut, peanut butter, CDs, candies, hard drives, wood, balloons, cheese, Lego toys, and what not.
He also cast things out of aluminum and copper. However, he does warn you: "It's very dangerous when playing with molten metals. The experiments I do are extremely dangerous, do not attempt to recreate anything I do at home. Just sit back relax and let me do the dangerous stuff."
And that's what I did! My favourite vid is Copper Vs Big Mac Cheeseburger. Tito has hundreds of, mostly 3-4 mt, molten metal vids that you can binge on. It’s addictive.
Every time I watched him pour a slim vat of molten copper onto still everyday things – I involuntarily held my breath, wondering what would happen next. Will the object disintegrate or will it hold? Will it be a fraidy-cat or a fighter?
Yeah, I know it sounds silly, but those vids, give these thingamajigs persona. As the orangish liquid glides over the inanimate objects with a 'sizzling' background score, your mind takes over and begins to ponder the underlying science. Why the rubber band ball burst into high flames and why not the cheeseburger?
Then on the aside you ask yourself: holy crap...if molten copper cannot disintegrate the cheeseburger then what happens when the burger goes into my stomach? Is gastric juice potent than molten copper? Should it be canned and used to spray men who harass women?
The mind runs with it all…it’s freewheeling.
That’s why these videos are enslaving. It makes you delve into matters that you wouldn’t normally do.
Tito has been at this from 2007. He's garnered an impressive following of 407,384 subscribers (and it is growing by the day) with over 105,511,774 views. These days, every time he pours molten copper onto something, it becomes news in leading dailies. So much so, now people have begun sending him products to test for durability (like the leather Ace Marks shoes. Video)
Tito4re vids: youtube link
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