Nobody Needs Hot Glue Shoes
The above hacks are terrible for the most part. You know they are terrible, everyone knows they are terrible, perhaps the people who made them realize that they are terrible. But they are so popular that this 20-minute compilation, which brings together previous videos from the same YouTube channel, amassed over 3 million views in four days. So go ahead and indulge yourself.
There are several Instagram, Facebook and YouTube channels full of bad hacks (and sometimes good hacks) like these. I reviewed others, such as a collection of bad Coca-Cola tricks shot in vibrant colors, sold with incredible looking miniatures, and concluded that the whole aspect of “hacking,” “DIY,” or “craft” is just a marketing tool. that the creators of these videos cannot imagine that they have useful activities.
These videos are high-budget versions of a buddy box , a collection of shocking web links that hang like berries at the bottom of news articles promising to show you which celebrities age poorly, or one mom’s miracle cure for wrinkles. I also wrote about the horror of these links and how to block them. But you don’t need to block bad video hacks.
Instead, you, I, and all of us need to look at them. We need to eat them. We need to do parodies and return videos, like sarcastically Jenna Marbles, who sarcastically builds flip-flops out of hot glue, puts them on, and notes “it’s like standing on soft Lego.” We need to make # content out of these hacks.
Because in that case, bad hacks cease to be this quiet industry throwing away trash and consuming ad dollars. Thus, bad hacks become a trend, a fashion. Everyone recognizes them, celebrates them, creates a side industry by mocking them. Because it sounds fun. And all the fun is destroyed.
Every good meme ends up being deleted on Facebook, where seniors may misuse it. Every good GIF dies and is buried in a graveyard in Trump’s response tweet thread. Celebrating good things kills them. So let’s make bad hacks a good thing. This is the only way to die.