The Kickstarter Scams and Failures Iceberg
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2023
- Today we're taking a look at Kickstarter's strangest. From Dark Sykes to Star Citizen. From the Meme restaurant, to a Kickstarter looking to investigating a theory. It's a deep one.
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dude looks 10 years younger than he sounds
edit: No more
I always imagined he looked like the dude in his profile pic
@@MimisyroSAME
Same
@@Mimisyro
@@Mimisyro Same
Yea
Even if the "Air Umbrella" worked, it would be such a dick move to use it since you're basically spraying water at everyone around you.
... Knowing that makes me want one. A real one, that would work.
Hahaha, that's excactly what I thought. The people around the users weren't this happy about them :D
I know some Alpha Males who would use it specifically for that reason
as does a regular brolly
😂😂😂
That teen dating thing is the creepiest thing I’ve ever heard.
Id say I’m pretty happy with my life, that made me deeply question it purely for its existence
I feel like ped0s would use that and pretend to have kids
@@beatblocksgamingwhat???
@@beatblocksgaming what does, that have to do with anything?
@@Dogetheunthey’re questioning their life because something like that exists
imagine having a date over for dinner and they ask you to pass the salt and you have to look this other human in their eyes and say “I need to update the firmware on my salt shaker first”
the moodlighting and music streaming things weren't the worst ideas in the world but yeah
smart salt shakers? Tf?
Humans are plateauing when it comes to tech and it shows. We are running out of ideas lol.
@@talesofgore9424We’re nowhere near the plateau, but when you desperately want money and aren’t creative enough to actually make something new, any idea is a grand one
‘a machine that makes meatballs that taste the way that certain music sounds’ has to be one of the funniest sentences i’ve ever heard
I think I'd just be happy with a machine that makes meatballs. When I make them I always make at least a double or triple batch because rolling them is a pain that seems to take forever and that way I get a bunch out of the way at once.
Also, you know whoever came up with that was high as hell.
Lemon Demon meatballs
@@Toenail_VR i feel like it would be a mid-rare meatball that tastes like crayons and a slight saltpinch of crack
If that project didn't get cancelled, I would probably try it out of morbid curiosity!
weezer meatballs
The idea that a group of people tried to fund a giant car-juggling robot is too funny to me. 😂
to be fair, it looks cool as hell. If I had money to waste I would fund that too.
Bro had an artistic vision and you gotta respect that
I respect that.
or the gordonator
And to top it off, the guy behind the project is a former NASA engineer.
Almost 12 years and $600 million later and star citizen is still in alpha stage.
Yes, but in order for it to qualify as an actual scam, it would have to be completely abandoned, full of empty promises, and few to no employees actually working on the project. That is not the case with Star Citizen. Although plenty of SC fans are not happy with the way things have been handled, it is far from abandoned, and there are real people making real money working on the project. They don't have a deadline because it's not in any contract, but they have not given up on the project. It's funny and tempting to give into labeling it as a "scam", but it just doesn't fulfill the requirements needed to actually be a genuine scam. It will most likely be in the alpha stage for at least another ten years, but that doesn't make it a scam, either.
@@WorthlessDeadEndit's a scam in literally every possible sense of the word. Money was taken based on dozens of lies, there are people who backed and told it was coming out in 2014 and have died since then never playing it.
If you paid $20,000 for a car and got delivered a skateboard 10 years later you got scammed period.
The new StarEngine has just come out! Should check it out before commenting.
Because they are sucking people money
@@sukazlukaim bout to suck your money
The funniest thing about this iceberg is that a nice chunk of these legit sound like joke inventions they'd make in old Looney Tunes shorts from the 40s. I swear the cooling spoon was something I saw before in a cartoon because the LOGIC of it is just too wild and needlessly overcomplicated, perfect for Looney Tunes!
It was also featured in some sit com in the 2010s I think?
The how to be a successful kickstarter book failing on kickstarter is actually so funny. It’s like writing a book called “how to be a millionaire” when you’ve got 300 bucks to your name
Reminds me of this book called “How I made $3M” and the book was priced $3M
Okay, but that one is a nice gag at least @@Mexican_Robobot42
I sincerely believe that's what a lot of people do who sell books and "coachings" on the topic 'How to become rich'. Fake it until you make it. In these cases, by selling a dream they have not yet achieved for themselve.
just read the book lol
So many people do that.
All the book says is “write a book about how to become a millionaire. It’ll sell.”
An interesting one that was left out of this list is Five Nights at Freddy's, it was technically a Kickstarter failure. It had a 10,000 dollar goal and made 0.
"Fine, I'll do it anyway"
@@user-a0d9w0ec9wiejbased profile
I could be wrong but I thought he closed it on day one
Also the game Lobotomy Corporation was a kickstarter failure, but a successful game. It’s a rogue like management simulator where you have to manage SCP like “abnormalities” for their energy. It only raised 3k out of the 40k goal they had, and yet the game still came out in its buggy glory. Despite its rough launch, being scammed out of translation work, it became a successful game and it’s sequel, deckbuiliding game Library of Ruina, is one of the top rated games on Steam right now.
That game's a mess. No good
The Gordonator is absolutely hilarious if real!
Can imagine a 12 year old sitting at a computer doing some drawing like “omg I’ve cracked it!”
Completely negating the insane amount of electricity it takes to hoist a giant carriage of people that high into the air, versus the 10 watts generated by the fall.
Nah, he said there wouldn't be people on it and no twists and turns, so that makes it alright . . . LOL
The Perpetual Motion Machine gets "invented" so often that the US Patent office has a specific rule disallowing any iteration of it to even be submitted.
@@dahitmannThat's gonna suck for the guy who actually invents it lol
@@UnknownGamer40464oh God I laughed my arsed off
@@UnknownGamer40464lol
That clipboard ad was absolutely gold. Full scam language, done to perfection.
Love how a lot of these basically boil down to:
"Hey, what if this item that works perfectly fine on it's own needed a phone even to be able to turn it on!?"
"Everything is better with Bluetooth." - Sheldon Cooper
I hate the amount of tech that requires a wifi connection/a phone /a connected app. JUST LET THINGS WORK HOW THEYRE SUPPOSED TOO
@@meganfaith4052What ? Are you telling me you don't want 2FA for your fridge ?! But what if someone hacks your $5000 smart fridge ?! Are you telling me you'd rather give away your privacy than use this essential item ?!... What do you mean "fridges don't need to have a computer in them" ? Of course they do, how else are we supposed to show you ads- uh, I mean, provide our totally useful services to the average customer ?
@@meganfaith4052as someone who lives in a powercut-prone location YES PLEASE OH MY GOD
I had a powercut for just under a week and decided to get myself a new Nintendo switch game to pass the time
IT WOULDN'T LET ME PLAY IT WITHOUT UPDATING IT
WHY WASN'T IT AN OPTION
I like how the 9/11 was like "don't worry guys, $1.5 mil is enough to buy the plane!" and not even mention how building a replica of the Twin Towers would cost hundreds of millions of dollars, just to blow it up in the end.
Honestly I just wanted to see people blow shit up.
To be fair, he was going to get a smaller plane and a smaller building. A paper plane and a house of cards could tell us if 911 really happened apparently.
I did a bit of research and it would cost somewhere between 3.4 billion and 5.7 billion for a single tower. 1.5 mil is laughable
I was expecting them to just say they would hit some other tall building, not even a replica.
Sounds like an Idea for a Mr Beast Video 😅
I just really didn’t want to live in the kind of world where “sorry, my shoes ran out of battery” is a sentence someone could potentially say out loud.
"Think you had it rough? TRY GROWING UP WITHOUT A FATHER"
Holy shit, hahaha
I was not expecting that. Went from audibly cringing to waking up the house with laughter.
😂😂😂
Peak Sam Hyde
I can tell you grew up without one
@@doktorhabilitowanystanczykactually.. we can kinda tell you did. no need to be rude 🥰 no have a daddy to teach you manners?
@@dargzyhow were they being rude?
I hate that we live in a society where a smart salt shaker was almost a real product.
I mean… The bronie dating sim was almost a thing
My mom would've bought it, her kitchen is full of smart shit that immediately breaks or can't connect to the wifi & has less functionality than a normal version of the appliance
@@bradleysmith9352i... find more logic in bronie dating sim than this.
I hate that it's not real. My stupid salt shaker just has salt in it. It doesn't make sound or light or help me order worthless crap from Amazon.
@@bradleysmith9352
That would have been better
My favorite kick starter story is the potato salad one. Starting as a joke and ending up being a potato salad themed charity event.
I remember that one the guy wanted like $30 or something to buy potato salad stuff and was gonna film himself making it and people went crazy giving the campaign money and he had to come up with rewards and stuff
I thought he only wanted like $8.50 or something
I cant believe they didn't call the the Turd Text the Feces Font
*That's* the part you can't believe?
They could have marketed the Gordonator as a device to generate electricity using Gordon Ramsay's white-hot rage on Hell's Kitchen and it would be more believable than their actual pitch.
OK of all the stupid ideas, at least the car juggling robot would've been fun to see.
Yes, that would've been hilarious
and stompy looking fucking glorious, all my homies love stompy
@@lookstothetroon Stompy is king
Loud as hell though lol
"THINK YOUVE HAD IT ROUGH, TRY GROWING UP WITHOUT A FATHER" is single handedly the best written and delivered line of all time across all mediums😂😂😂😂
So unexpected for a game like that, made me roll laughing 😂😂😂
I should make a dream Stan joke here
man, anyone playing that game has none
@@Zlegotube my thoughts exactly😂😂
I'd be such a troll and be like "whoa, you were immaculately conceived?!" 😂
lol i remember getting yelled at by people for telling them that the triton gills, if they were to work at all, would require a massive amount of surface area and the abdominal muscles of an olympic body builder to cycle the air without mechanical assistance
And that's before we get into the whole water pressure thing.
Bro. The fact that Big Mouth has EIGHT seasons is the biggest shocker for me in this video.
I always wondered if the "Smalt" had been successful would they have made a "Smepper?"
and the add-on the Smaprika.
And the Smices
Be right back guys, I'll be making the patented Smotato Smauce.
Don’t forget the smoregano
Smasil goes crazy
People would put the "Project We Love" image onto their Kickstarter pages and videos without it actually being endorsed by Kickstarter. It got people more views but if it was successful then it would get reviewed by Kickstarter and they'd find the fraudulent image, and thus that's why the clipboard thingy got canceled.
My family did get a Coolest Cooler, eventually it became a joke between us on how the thing would never arrive- we got a few updates, promises that would go unfulfilled and then one day it randomly showed up, about a year and a half or two years after we ordered it. I was curious if it would make it on this list- it’s a pretty nice product but also known for its failure. I heard some people never received theirs
Does it actually work as advertised?
@@ThomasNimmesgern
Of course it fucking does, it's a cooler with extra stuff and heavy as shit.
Sorry but people who bought that are complete jackasses: You don't NEED like maybe 5 of the things embeded on the cooler.
That 3D mockup of the BugJuggler juggling VW's has me rolling
The beatballs thing is funny, imagine sending in the sound of Nails on a chalkboard or fork on a porcelain plate and getting pure lemon flavored meatballs.
A gunshot would be 99% pepper 💀
Crying would be salty cinnamon lmfaoooo 😭
@@kwingle diarrhea remix would be melon with milk and bean
I imagine the robot deliberately undercooking/putting toxic ingredients in meatballs
But i could hate the song not only because it sound bad, but also taste terrible
@@TheThreatenedSwanuranium meatball
Three words: "Cans Without Labels". That was an absolute disaster.
There more than 3 words. Even a period.
Every time I remember John K. I just shake my head in disappointment.
it's endlessly hilarious to me that everything he did post-Ren and Stimpy has been complete garbage
@@coolboyyo654 John K. is a great cartoonist... and literally nothing else. Nothing else _good_ at least. He sucks at directing, storyboarding and producing cartoons. He can draw good stuff, and has a solid artstyle, but that means nothing if you can't even work in a team in a big project. He's a garbage person too, but that doesn't nullify his talent as a cartoonist and nothing else ever.
@@miserirkenEarly R&S is a masterclass in expressive animation (the "I'm so angry" rant and Happy Happy Joy Joy in particular), but like Harry Potter or Earthworm Jim, I *strongly* recommend experiencing it in a way that doesn't give the author any more money (the latter being a moot point since I recommend the Sega CD version of Earthworm Jim anyway).
"The Sauceman's Sactchel" sounds like a TF2 item. Maybe a demoman one, and it could be a joke on both a satchel charge and the place where demo stores his drinks.
“The Scotsman’s Satchel”? Maybe something to do with a lunchbox item like the Bonk! Atomic Punch?
I'm so glad the Triton gills weren't released because having the perception that you can breathe underwater without actually being able to is terrifying. Someone could've died
I think it would have been really funny if the 9/11 guy took his 150$, used it to buy an RC plane, and then flew it into a sand castle
The guy who managed to get 6$ by 6 differents backers is almost a work of art.
There was one who got $0 from one backer!
date my daughter got $2 from 2 backers 😭
$6*
I learned that shit in first grade, man.
@@scottydu81he can speak two languages. You can barely speak one. Stfu
@@scottydu81who cares
45:48 Imagine if the stalkchat thing became real. That would be every creep‘s dream, and every abuse victim’s nightmare.
Putting aside the horrible implications of that, imagine meeting someone on this and becoming life long friends or romantic partners. Your kids ask how you met, and you have to explain that you were watching security cameras and decided that some rando looked cool while running to the bus, so you messaged them.
"If it became real" it is, except it's the government watching.
The idea makes perfect sense for a very very specific group of people lol nothing weird or creepy, they just like security cameras. And to literally every other human it looks sketchy as hell lmao
@@obeseperson It's very, very weird and creepy. Let's not pretend it isn't.
@@obeseperson Ah yes security camera enthusiasts, that's definitely a group that exists, people who just sit around watching security cam footage all day.
as someone who carries hot sauce around everywhere, the sauceman's satchel seems like a great alternative to having small packets of sauce all over my bag, and I need it to come back.
Can't you just carry a bottle of hot sauce around in your normal bag...?
@@youtube-kit9450spillage risk, better to have one packet burst than a whole bottle get your books all saucy :(
As someone who works in corporate and finance, a $500 dollar clipboard is very on brand. Really surprised it didn't take off.
I swear, some companies are like the military where they spend $10,000 on a toilet plunger.
@@AYVYNMy country's government bought a huge set of cutlery that, if you do the math, means they spent over $100 on each fork.
It is iPad sized, we need it Surface sized, like actual size of a whiteboard. Not even joking because got complaints about the regular paper board lacking aesthetic synergy
So if it was larger and not cartoonishly expensive it would be a hit
That's a Remarkable, my boss has one
Professional Flexers
01:34 Triton Gills
05:08 SMALT (Smart Salt Shaker)
06:33 Digitsole Smartshoe
08:07 Spooni (Spoon with a fan)
08:15 BugJuggler (Guess what this is)
08:40 BOx (Bottle opener)
09:12 Stompy (6 legged robot vehicle)
09:30 Dark Skyes (My Little Pony dating sim)
14:22 Ouya (Small game console)
16:53 Backmeal (App to sell food on)
17:17 Poptheatr (Tent for a phone)
18:18 Who's Dating My Daughter (App to keep track who's your daughter dating)
19:26 The Sauceman's Satchel (Satchel for sauces)
19:51 Air Umbrella
21:24 Turd Text (Font)
22:13 CHiP Smart Cookie Oven
23:05 Coolest Cooler (Cooler with accessories)
25:12 Star Citizen (Game)
31:02 Skoot (Longboard + Bicycle)
31:32 Run & Roll it (Toy)
32:04 Gas (Game)
32:13 BeatBalls (Machine to make meatballs which taste like a song)
33:10 Skarp Laser Razor (Shaving using a laser)
37:12 TheFeel (Clipboard)
39:51 The Gordonator (Infinite electricity)
42:42 StalkChat (Use public security cameras to make friends?)
46:01 Clean Cloud Power (App to download electricity from the cloud)
46:30 A New Mathematical System (Mathematics 2.0 - Solution to everything)
47:04 Adoptly (Tinder, but for adopting kids)
47:14 Kickstarter: Succeed First Time (Book)
47:39 DemoFist (Replacement to the hammer)
48:32 The Man Who Laughs (Joker Film)
49:00 CoolBro (A straw - fan yourself with your own breating)
49:25 TAHKA (Tent for your palms)
49:45 Meme Resturaunt (Food based on memes)
50:50 Gamer Archive (Game console to play every video game ever)
51:14 Echo Caves (App to play rock paper scissors - the loser gives access to their phone)
53:23 Yappattack (Soundboard app)
54:17 Zen Egg (Wooden egg)
55:01 Mokase Phone Case (Phone case with a tank for coffee?)
56:41 911 Redux (Recreate 911 to let conspiracy theorists see the event for themselves?)
1:01:34 Chronicles of Elyria (Ultra realistic MMORPG Game)
Nice job dude
thanks c:
Thank yiu
My man
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Ain't gonna lie, the zen egg looks like such a weird yet funny desk decoration, that I see myself probably buying one...of course, if they weren't so ridiculously overpriced
One note, if something is priced in euros, it should include VAT taxes (around 18-25%). This usually means that the dollar sticker price is less than that, because those prices never include taxes. Not sure how they do in Kickstarter or similar shops, but in everywhere I know, € sticker price always include VAT taxes.
Yup. And I don't get why in the US, the price isn't written with it included. It's nice imo to see what you have to pay in the end, and how much of it is VAT or sales tax is usually written on the receipt and stuff anyways. Meanwhile, it's a headache to buy stuff on a limited budget in the US cuz you have to calculate beforehand (which also can be a pain because the tax can vary from state to state) etc.
It'd be so convenient for customers, and with how much managers throw their workers under the bus to pander to Karens, I deadass don't know why stores don't do this for customers.
As far as I know, I don't live in America, this is because different states have different taxes. And in order to save the Company the work of calculating the price separately for each state and adjusting everything, the basic price is used. This also supposedly makes it easier for consumers to compare prices.
@@yaarikablubb8871 That wasn't the point, even tho I know this. Sale taxes and VAT are different for a reason. I just point this VAT difference on sticker prices on EU, because most people have no idea about currencies, conversons and tax differences on sticker/launch prices on EU and US (also other countries and currencies).
It's 100% ok to have the release price with no added sale tax, but when there's side by side prices (US 0% tax price and EU 20% VAT price)... Now it's just weird, because VAT amount is all over the place in the EU. Would be ok if there was always clear massive markings that highlights the added VAT % so none can miss it.
@@yaarikablubb8871 I mean it's not like calculating the price after tax is particularly difficult if you like own a calculator. Also EU countries don't have the same tax rates so this isn't really different.
@@youtube-kit9450 They do it for exactly that reason, if it's harder for you to keep track of what something actually costs you are more likely to overspend. It's the same reason why all prices end in 99 or 98, it makes the product seem cheaper to you when it really isn't.
34:00 for any kickstarter claiming to use lasers, it's important to understand that lasers are very strictly regulated. Operating lasers that can do any kind of useful work usually requires a safe environment that's supervised by a laser safety technician. So a lot of them just get booted off the site immediately because they're way too dangerous.
Using a "laser" that travels through some kind of fiber optic will circumvent most of those requirements, but it clearly doesn't work lol
For context on why the safety is so finnicky: Eyes are VERY vulnerable to lasers because our lens focusses the beam onto a tiny spot, dramatically increasing its energy density. A laser that's strong enough to cut things is usually so strong that even a REFLECTION of the laser can realistically blind somebody. So you must wear laser safety goggles and create a reflection-safe environment.
thank you for the knowledge, i always wondered about real life laser tech but everything educational of course gets buried under scifi content x-x
Lasers are heavily regulated? Ah yeah nah not really. Ant idiot can buy a high power laser, and a quick look thru TH-cam demonstrates that. As for medical use, where I am (Australia) I can buy a laser and promptly set up a tattoo removal service.
Now little lasers you buy to give you cat something to chase, now that's a whole different story. Anyway "heavily regulated" = lol.
@@j.f.christ8421my sister had to get a degree (albeit a short one) to be able to operate a tattoo removal laser. Her hair removal girl had to get a license (funded by her employer) in order to be able to operate the hair removal laser. There is some sort of regulation even with low harm laser like pigmentation removal ones.
@@j.f.christ8421those are actually illegal
@@jamesrosewell9081 Not where I live, I've got everything from a 1mW to a 200W. I can't carry the 1mW around, but I can start a tattoo removal service, no questions asked.
Been waiting for a new iceberg for SO DAMN LONG LESSS GOOOO
get some coffee man
YESIRR WE EATING GOOD 🔥🔥🔥
And if you are not a broke loser you go to the bank and ask for a loan instead of begging people for money ahaha
Alr
It takes a long time to put together quality content, thank you for being patient!
11:03 “think you had it rough, trying growing up without a father”
Just her tone alone made me burst out laughing 😂
As a fatherless person, I can tell that the voice actor for “jet” definitely had a dad around 😂😂😂
That or they’re just really not a good voice actor. But I’m betting maybe both tbh
TheFeel - sounds like someone took "Sell me this pen" a bit too seriously.
The Gordonator creator(s) mistaking the words wench and winch is one of the most unintentionally funny things I've seen in a while. Literal girl power.
I can't stop laughing at 'the energy needed to power the wench is insignificant'. I need that on a shirt
@@flossimoth
I feel that a good scampaign should deliberately be just preposterous enough on the face of it as to be laughed off by a half reasonably intelligent person. Those who *didn't* laugh it off effectively passed the _stupid_ test and are now ready to be separated from their money.
I kept imagining a medieval serf woman who grabs the cart by its wheels and launches it to the other end
Reminded me of that scene from The Spaceman and King Arthur where he asked for a wrench and the king thought he said wench.
I’m imagining a bunch of medieval barmaids running on giant hamster wheels
So basically, all I learned from this is to NEVER support a campaign with the expectation of a return. Only do it if you're feeling generous and just want to "help" someone. Whether it be helping them to support their cause or helping them to rob you - which I guess is one and the same.
Yeah lol, the whole premise of crowd funding is that you’re essentially loaning money to a stranger.
@@eliontheinternet3298Yep. Its investing with less benefits
I’ve funded a couple of projects but they were ones that had very clear objectives that were unique but not impossible. The best one I funded was for Antonia St, they make high heels custom to your feet with lots of padding and support. Got the shoes in 2018 and still wear them.
@@maggiee639 Personalized shoes of all kinds should become more common. Poorly fitting shoes can heavily effect your general health and quality of life, and most people just get shoes that they think fit and call it good.
@@zeallust8542 oh absolutely. I work on my feet too so I try to wear reasonable shoes for the most part but it’s hard!
i will never get a smart shoe. it'll just judge me when i inevitably choose my crocs over them for the 100th time
finally an iceberg where i dont understand anything until he explains it
"You think you've had it rough? Try growing up without a father"
Yeah seems like it
Perhaps I had it rough.
You think that's bad? I dated a guy who simped for Smalt and the BugJuggler when they were a thing and he literally told me I was retardeɗ because I said it was a scam.
@@SolaceonHis ex wasn't all that well off either, using words like "simped" and "literally"
@@MadScientist267Except both of those are real.
@@TwiliPaladinthe only word that isnt real is whatever retarded shit "smalt" is
Gotta admit, Micheal's dedication to getting a refund is impressive-
In today's world every cent counts 😭
A youtuber made him one, just look up air umbrella. (Wrote this before I saw it in the video, sorry about the redundancy)
@@_3_Hydrangea_3_ true
I love watching this because it reminds me of the times I've binge-watched Retsupurae's "Kickstarter Nonstarters" series. Love learning about this stuff.
18:04 since big mouth has only 71 episodes, i decided that MY poptheatr challenge would be to go into a public space and try to watch *ALL 240 EPISODES OF THE AMAZING WORLD OF GUMBALL STRAIGHT.* I AM NOT JOKING HERE.
The saddest part about Dark Skyes was that the artist, Pyoo Kee Pony, was a very popular and professional MLP fan artist. She stopped drawing after this incident, I believe due to false accusations about her involvement, and harassment. She was not aware that her art was stolen for this scam game.
*I also think I remember from a deep-dive video that she was not being paid or was screwed out of payment somehow, memory is bleak on that part.
*EDIT: Her art was straight up stolen, she was not commissioned to make it like I originally remembered.
the artist wasn't paid, they just straight up used the art without permission for a joke that wasn't actually gonna be seriously made lol
That scans. Sam Hydes a thundercunt who gets away with it because lol memes
Wonderful art? It's a nasty furry pornography, that's not wonderful; it's sick.
yeah I don't really see how that kickstarter was a joke, just seems generally mean spirited
@@pensuls7595Because it simply wasn't a joke. "It's just a prank" is code talk for "I wanted to be an asshole/take advantage of you, but you caught onto it, so I'll play it off as it being a joke"
"the founders promised their kickstarter would change the modern world as we know it for the greater good, and all they wanted was fifty million dollars."
"in the end they only got $2"
-basically every entry on this list, and it never gets old lmfao
Awesome video, i didn't notice it was an hour long until it was finished. Well done my dude.
Subbed.
A conversation piece. "DUDE, why do you have this?" Got me dead
how can someone look this majestic
I know dude he looks actually pretty handsome. I don’t want it to sound weird but I don’t know how else to say it lol
he kinda looks like what would happen rodrick heffley and kylo ren had a child
@@RedCroissantGamesyeah I’m shook he has such a baby face lol I thought he would’ve been like 30 based on his voice
@@hooverkinz i thought he looked like his pfp
@@brew2779dude that's not weird
“Honey you haven’t touched your food all night, what’s wrong?”
I’m tryna get the- the- Salt Shaker to connect
Great video. First one I've seen by you and subscribed right away :)
Great video man, I can see the work that went into it and I appreciate the time you spent on it!
The Gordonator sounds a lot like a conspiracy theory I heard a while back. Basically it’s about this engine that can create an endless amount of energy but it’s not being used ‘cause big oil, but the blueprints for it are like super complicated or only theoretical and like super super deep parts of the internet has it.
So basically standard hoki-poki conspiracy stuff, but hearing about the Gordonator sparked that memory so I’d figured I’d share
A wench (which is a woman) will pull it up the hill. Not a winch, a wench.
MATE MY FUCKN HIGHSCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHER TOLD US ABOUT THIS!!! oh man you bought back so many memories. he ended up going off the deep end with conspiracy stuff during covid though
@@tam-tam7098there are loads of examples, just search for “perpetual motion machines” to start down the rabbit hole. Some designs are genuinely clever and appear extremely convincing, but will NEVER work without breaking fundamental physics!
the fact is that there are always advancements to technology being suppressed by 'ig oil, yet you LIBERALS refuse to accept it
Is that technically perpetual motion?
Dont wanna sound weird, but you have an absolutely amazing voice. Like you should be a radio host or something.
wonderful salesman voice
That profile picture was decieving AF lol, thought he was a grizzled 40 year old chill dad type dude.
I honestly kinda expected him to look like what's in his profile pic
the guy who told me about a failed brony dating sim telling me the time would be the same as the postal dude telling me the weather
Cringe
There used to be a product called "Hand Energy", it was supposed to be a ball that can generate electricity for devices such as smartphones, i think they raised something like 150K and then left in 2018 without a trace
Great video, a ton of effort and high production quality. Subbed and liked
Listening to him, I thought Pipes was like a 35 year old guy, but he's just a kid.
same
I thought he would resemble his pfp or is exactly his pfp.
Same. I was expecting him to have a beard.
@sentientbottleofglue6272 I totally visualized him as his pfp so when his actual fave showed up I was like ????
Oh ok just because he’s not fat he looks like a kid?! Americans
22:22 I think the smart cookie maker is funny because now you can do that exact same thing with an air fryer, make a couple cookies in a couple minutes
Or just a toaster oven
This is fantastic. Idk how I wasn't already subbed to this channel. I love icebergs as much as my dad doesn't love me.
I had this thing a year ago.
Where whenever i search something on YT which I have NEVER done before. I will enter this mysterious side of YT telling me that I entered managed to find something new? I dunno,but what I COULD remember. Is that I tried this 2 or 3 times last year by searching vids using random symbols. And what it shows you are random creepy YT vids. I remember seeing 2 of them which I still remember to this day.
1. A Video that has the nico's nextbot face as the thumbnail.
2. A Weird yet creepy looking girl staring with wide opened mouth.
Parallel pipes may never be pregnant yet every time a new video drops he straight up DELIVERING.
Never say never
@@Luh_katkatgood point
literally copy pasted comment
shut up zoomer
Leave one liners to other people you're not cut out for it
this is THE Iceberg explained TH-cam channel.
wendigoon would like a word with you
@@DWKA_his voice isn’t as nice to listen to
When this guy uploads it’s like a holiday
@@DWKA_ Wendigoon jumps over topics with zero visuals out of nowhere and he's honestly really hard to follow
@@fulltimeslackerii8229 no way blud is serious
this was one of the best youtube videos i have ever seen. great great content.
I made a horrible joke that pissed people off years ago about Mythbusters doing a test about whether or not Jet Fuel Could Melt Steel Beams with the punchline being Adam Savage saying "WE NEED TO GO FULL SCALE". I'm not saying I wasn't wrong for that but HOLY EVERLOVING GOD FUCKING SHIT.
One of my favorite thing about the Triton Gills is that you'd think the Navy would be super interested in such tech, considering their subs use nuclear powered electrolysis to split water in hydrogen/oxygen.
The square-cube law comes out in forcer for that i think.
the real killer is nitrogen. getting oxygen from water isn't impossible, but there's almost no nitrogen in water. I'm not sure how even subs get it. And it's not healthy to breathe pure oxygen.
Didn't know this man's face was so beautiful GYAT DAM
Ayo? 🤨
I got this video recommended to me and I just discovered this channel, a new favorite was born 👌
Having never watched one of your videos before, I saw the live-segment and just thought it was an example of a Kickstarter scam video.
the meme restaurant menu was actually more clever than i thought it would have been
thought it would be ragefaces printed on your cake or something
That shit was stupid AF.
Course memes.........
Yeah, it wasn't what I was expecting, but they'd need to update the menu just about every week because memes have a rather short shelf life.
@@SolidIncMediathe menu was a blast from the past (RIP Harambe though)
I think it would fly for a good while if only they hired a professional to design the menu.
All that was missing was a "harlem shake"
There was an air-blowing spoon here in Spain, I think a pasta company gave them away as a promotion years ago, as well as a fork that spins on itself to roll spaghetti
I always wanted one of those forks, they were just the right amount of pointless and stupid lok
The spaghetti fork thing is really old actually, or at least the patent for it is
The spaghetti-rolling fork is old. It also isn't meant for "normal" users but people with fine motor control issues, be it from age or disease, to help them.
Dude: Thanks for giving me a laugh out loud moment for the day with your spot on, wry comments on the cookie oven. (Just because you have a big oven, doesn't mean you can't just cook 3-4 cookies but, MUST make a whole cookie sheet full. Priceless wisdom. 😂
This guy has one of the best professional/clearly understandable And interesting Content on TH-cam
so glad that Idubbbz brought back kickstarter crap, also might I say he's looking a lot more handsome all of the sudden.
Even Sam Hyde is bringing back Kickstarter TV!!
Heyyy, that's pretty good
@@joe_mama__ bro sam hyde needs to leave idubbz alone he's already killed him lol
@@yungspaghettiHe's now going to kill his soul as well.
@@Svoorhout85 Hyde is drowning in Cheeto dust. I don’t think he’s killing anyone.
If I had to guess, Mokase might've been suspended due to concerns about having a heating element on a phone case. That sounds like a fire waiting to happen.
More like a complete energy nightmare.
Heating water is not trivial.
@@MadScientist267 Neither is heating batteries
@@MadScientist267 This ammount of water probably wouldn't pose much of an issue, plus if they were smart they'd chemically heat it and put the heat pack into the packet.
First time I have come across your channel. How much time and effort did you put in to making this video. Top quality stuff.
Small correction: I think the ouya was supposed to stream big games, but even with a bigger budget and more advanced technologys people still could not make it happen because of latency. For example another game streaming thing that failled was google stadia
I still remember when I played Star Citizen during a recent free fly event.
The first time I played I tried to go from Microtech to Hurston.
On my first attempt I didn't know how to land and accidentally jumped out of my cockpit at a height of about 10000 meters.
On my second attempt my game crashed as soon as I reached the main city on Hurston.
I know they're not 1-to-1, but to anyone who thinks Star Citizen looks interesting, I'd highly recommend checking out Elite: Dangerous instead.
Fucking sick
I see you’ve nearly gotten the true star citizen experience, now you just need a 30k
I joined a bigger community as a test pilot and had a lot of fun. There were some goofy rules to never run into people or not run in elevators or you would get kicked. The bugs are like part of game and like everyone knew how to circumvent most of them. You need an insane PC and a lot of time. Spawning on the wrong Planet can lead to a like 30 min flight you need to do to get to your friends.
Still like the only game where you can fly a ship with multiple people inside manning different turrets/roles etc. Many people paid around a thousand on ships and tanks.
The game can certainly be weird and there are some hardcore groups of people in it that take it very seriously. But if you genuenly love flying in space and seamless travel while having many options of what to do (however i agresivní most game loops are pretty shallow for now) this game can be wonderful and great fun with friends.
While watching this, I found myself asking a question that I don’t think most of the people who pitched these products asked themselves: “Why?”
To me Kickstarter has a useful ability to gauge the intelligence of society on the whole 🤣
You know what else began on Kickstarter? The first transatlantic signal cable. Okay, not Kickstarter as we know it today, but back in those days (1850s) there was a thing called 'raising a public subscription', which was basically crowdfunding by another name.
The first try was a horrific failure, but they learned their lessons fast... and in the end they not only laid the North America/Britain cable but they went and fished out the loose end of the lost one and connected that as well. (Source: How the World was One, the Turbulent History of Global Communications, by Arthur C Clarke.)
14:33 fun fact about this console, it was joked about throughout Filmcow’s Detective Heart of America movie kickstarter and was even an element in the movie itself. I recommend checking it out, it’s fucking insane
The Peachy Printer: the worlds first 100 dollar 3D printer & scanner. They got almost half a million with their campaign. Nothing was ever delivered. But the weirdest thing was how they pulled the plug: they claimed that the guy that managed their money had "borrowed" a large part of it to build a house for himself, so that's why it was all gone. They even released a super weird "interview", where the CEO is making this guy confess.
As far as the Mokase goes, I'm guessing it got suspended due to the sheer danger of the idea. If the phone case is supposed to heat up the coffee, it'll also heat up the phone and potentially damage it or at least make it unusable for a while due to overheating, and you could accidentally switch it on in your pocket and burn yourself. Not to mention the awful idea of having coffee directly beside your phone, inside of the thing meant to protect it. One puncture or drop and your phone is toast. Water resistance does not extend to coffee.
Water resistant phones would be coffee resistant as well since coffee is mostly water but when this launched I don't think any phones were water resistant.
@@hedgehog3180 Not true at all. The problem lies when the coffee evaporates. Even water can leave behind minerals when it evaporates, and this is what leads to corrosion, which is where water damage wreaks its havoc. Coffee is the same but worse, as there is more there that can't evaporate off, so it further promotes corrosion and issues.
Just because a phone is waterproof doesn't mean its coffee proof. Or soda proof. Or juice proof. If it cannot evaporate cleanly, it will corrode the phone. Sugar is one of the worst things for corrosion, and its usually in all 3. Hell, even "waterproof" phones aren't fully invincible to water itself and are still susceptible to water damage, its just harder to do. Time of exposure is another factor. Leave a waterproof phone underwater for 24 hours, there's about a 50/50 that the water found its way into the phone. 30 minutes, you're likely fine.
Also brother what are you doing this comment is 7 months old. You responded to an old ass comment just to be wrong💀
the smart shoe would've actually been great for people with disabilities but it's consistently hit obstacles whenever i've seen people trying to run something similar
honestly if the shoes didnt look terrible i think it couldve worked
Watched this video when it came out and it reminded me that Star Citizen was a thing, so I checked in on its progress and was actually pretty impressed. 3 months later and I've sunk roughly $150 into the game, so I can see where that funding comes from. BTW the studio shared a ton of progress updates in late October that make it seem like they might actually deliver on most of their promises soon, but they aren't exactly good with roadmaps so we'll see about that...
The laser razor is very funny. I feel if you have that much trouble sourcing quality materials and manufacturing for a single prototype, you're gonna really struggle to find that stuff for mass production
I know this'll probably get drowned in sea of comments, but I want to say you easily make the best iceberg videos on the platform. You always choose really interesting topics and your voice is very nice to listen to
Regarding the mokase, I knew it needed to be an italian idea. In Italy there is this way of saying, for mocking people who try to oversell stuff with incredible features that really don't matter "does it make coffee?"
So I believe it may have been more of a joke and less of a scam
A bugjuggler sounds so stupid yet so incredible.
Most of those gadgets suffers from Juicero syndrome i.e. the unnecessary urge to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and 'smart'-ify anything
I'm wondering when someone is going to invent a smart human
"you think you've got it tough, try growing up without a father!" was like a kick to the stomach like jesus christ
please give a timestamp for this i have been looking for it for the past hour
@NefariousNeptune 11:08
@@linnhuman thank you so much
Accurate representation
“you think you’ve had a tough life? i’ve been wearing size 14 nikey-“
I love how with Dark Skyes the voice actors were told to take this seriously, dont be too tongue in cheek or cynical, they need to seem legit in order to scam people but the voice actors sound like they never spoke to anyone their whole life.
I like listening to your vids when i need to sleep. ❤❤❤