YouTube is an experimental space for many hotheads who, in pursuit of hype, popularity or for the sake of their own ambitions, are ready to risk their lives for the amusement of the public.
Here are the top 10 dangerous YouTube channels, whose owners and guests can get hurt and even die while filming their videos.
I must say that YouTube responds quickly to such videos. For example, in 2019, he banned violent pranks and challenges that are dangerous to human life and health.
Do not repeat what you saw below on your channel, at home, or anywhere else!
10. Channel First We Feast
Let's start with a warm-up - a highly popular overseas YouTube channel where owner Sean Evans interviews celebrities while they try to eat chicken wings with hot sauce.
As the interview goes on, the sauce becomes more and more pungent. It is arguably the most innocuous and popular channel on this list. Spicy food is appreciated by many people, in addition, guests of the channel are given a dish to drink.
However, the effects of eating certain types of chili can be quite unpleasant. Capsaicin, an alkaloid found in various types of capsicum that makes them pungent, can cause abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea. And this is only if you have not previously had any stomach problems, such as an ulcer or gastritis.
9. Channel of Oleg "Kriket" Sherstyachenko
I don’t know about you, dear readers and viewers, but I have a fear of heights from the very first frames of this video. On it, the Ural extreme fearlessly walks and hangs on his hands at a 70-meter height.
And all the action on the assurances of the creators of the video takes place without any insurance. And without preliminary rehearsals, since all these dangerous stunts were not agreed with the administration of the hotel in Hong Kong, where the shooting took place.
8. Mustang Wanted
As one of the subscribers put it, "this guy has" balls "made of diamond." And in the comments they are regularly surprised that the brave roofer is still alive. After all, only a very brave person with a completely atrophied instinct of self-preservation can do such tricks at a dizzying height.
7. StreetBeefs
Seals and fights - that's what YouTube was famous for at the dawn of its youth. Youth passed, and fights were as popular as they were (and cats, of course, too).
And if you want to watch from a safe distance how two amateur fighters smash each other's faces and other body parts into blood, then take a look at the StreetBeefs overseas YouTube channel and enjoy.
So far, there have been no fatalities on this channel, but 15 people have been injured over the past year.
6.skippy62able
To whom, and to the author of this channel, my mother in childhood, apparently, did not say: "Don't put any nasty stuff in your nose!" Or she spoke, but he did not obey. And now he inhales alcohol, soda and other drinks.
And when I say "breathes," I mean that he does it in the literal sense of the word. Also, Kevin Thomas Strail, who owns skippy62able, is a competitor in the speed eating competition. However, YouTube does not welcome his hobbies, and even flagged Kevin's videos as unattractive to advertisers.
5. Devinsupertramp
But the host of this extreme YouTube channel is prudent enough not to ask for trouble himself. He directs the videos and chooses the members to appear on his super popular video blog.
On Devinsupertramp you can find a video in which people do crazy things: they stand on the wing of a corn plant doing a “loop”, swim on the ocean floor without a scuba gear, jump from a cliff and walk along a canal stretched over an abyss, with minimal insurance, etc. ... If you want to tickle your nerves, then look.
4. BlueWorldTV
Are you ready to hand feed the shark, look for Megalodon's teeth - the biggest shark in history, explore underwater caves and perform many more heroic and reckless deeds while under the water column?
If not, watch how Jonathan Byrd, an experienced diver who tells and shows us how the depths of the sea can surprise us, does it.
3. Göran Winblad
Many people run in the morning, and physically trained athletes are even able to run a long marathon of several tens of kilometers.
But there are people for whom the word "marathon" will only cause a condescending grin, because they have entered the ultra-marathon distance. And they are able to run from 50 to 160 kilometers.
As the saying goes, “don't try this at home,” as the effects of running for so long include nausea, vomiting, and even damage to internal organs. Each such run requires a long physical and psychological preparation.
2. Brave Wilderness
Insect bites can cause itching, skin irritation and severe allergic reactions. Will you willingly subject yourself to a similar test for the joy of others? But the host of the Brave Wilderness channel did it, and more than once.
Naturalist Nathaniel "Coyote" Peterson heroically tolerates the bites of any insect he can find. Moreover, the matter is not limited to insects: Peterson was bitten by animals, reptiles and spiders, he ate fruits that looked and tasted disgusting.
He does this not only for the sake of likes, but also for the sake of popularizing science. He tells how to behave with dangerous creatures, and vice versa, which is definitely not worth doing when you meet.
1. Private exotarium
In September 2017, it became known about the death of Arslan Valeev, a Russian biologist, zoologist and owner of the BobCat TV YouTube channel dedicated to wild cats and the Private Exotarium dedicated to reptiles.
During the stream, Valeev was bitten by a black mamba, which he planned to transfer from the terrarium to a special container used for video broadcasts. Viewers of the stream called doctors, but one of the the most venomous snakes in the world turned out to be fatal for a blogger.
The question of whether this was an accident against the background of prolonged depression (Arslan broke up with his wife) or a deliberate suicide remains open.
Since then, the channel has not been updated, but all uploaded videos have been preserved.