Personaly I think the Megahard Doors 11 is much better than Michaelsoft Binbows 11. And both are better than that new BigMacOS Mountain Bottom that Pear just released. But don't forget that Smasnug can and will for sure release a new competitor to the Ybox and put Twodroid on it. I'm sure they will call it the UwULED edition. But then comes LowG TV and their new AwwLED that will be so bright and colorful that we will all forget about the Binbows scandal. It's all in the Matrix dudes. We can't escape. Not even if you have a Ford Unfocused 2020. It's not fast enough to escape. Vote Trumpet for a better future, because with Bidet in power we can't go far. Or was it the other way around? Oh man
Michaelsoft Binbows was ran by a single guy in Japan who did PC repairs, who had a sense of humor. It was great to see it was on purpose and he was in on the joke from the start.
I will always love the fake-out / jump-cut combo. "It's not like they would just leave the door unlocked, for anyone to walk rig--" "Guys, _they left the door unlocked._ "
f4mi, I just wanted to say thank you for protecting the actual creators of smasnug from actually being named who are probably just doing their best to get their products sold outside of the west. This is a really interesting topic, I feel like this could be studied in some sort of undergrad global economics course
Yeah, but the chinese trademark office will happily tell anyone who asks. They're not realy protected in your sense. What protects them is the chinese government not caring much about foreign trademarks.
this is insane, as the biggest collector of old samsung galaxy phones in europe, all my komrades always mock me with the smasnug meme and im very happy after watching this because now theres someone i can take out all my rage and frustration on.
Brilliant editing, and the music choices are top tier. I was reeling from both Cuba Baion and Hong Kong 97. Supremely good as always, you're growing too powerful
It's also the FDS Luo Tianyi cover. The NSF file for that is a bit of a lost media on its own. The original author is Chinese and they probably took it down for you know why.
Wonderful video. I've watched enough LTT and DankPods before to realize that it was almost certainly the OEM behind this, but knowing for sure is super awesome. Also your comedic timing never fails on me
These videos speak to me at a core level. Of course I had that extremely common MP3 player. Excellent video once again and nice to see your talking head.
I think I had that very same mp3 player. got it in 2003 back when ripping entire albums from limewire was big. it probably cost something around 30 bux which was alot at the time, and the manufacturing cost was probably less than 3
I had no idea that SMASNUG was real. Just thought it was a DankPods thing, like the Nuggets, 1grit, huh duh six hungeos, etc. I remember putting a real Samsung monitor on FB marketplace and accidentally listing it as a Smasnug. Been following the channel since you uncovered the story behind the homebrew channel music. Keep up the cool videos!
Ah, the legendary SMASNUG It was quite interesting to find out where it might have came from and how common it actually is Also, hello to all DankPods viewers :)
Wow, the voice modulator was one thing, that's been easy to do for a while, but your new deepfake is great. I'm blown away by how convincing the CGI is! Feel like some people will actually be tricked lol. Keep up the good work, dude. But seriously, you're one of the most under appreciated youtubers I've found, but I don't expect the obscurity to last too long.
Smasnug sounds like someone about to say "Would smash" and then, halfway through the sentence, censoring themself to a more wholesome snuggle. "Would sma- snug."
The amount of research that goes into your videos is actually incredible! You honestly inspire me to try go in more in my future vids because sometimes I make videos on random obscure topics lol.
This video appeared in my UA-cam home page. I'm glad that i clicked it because this is a deep research for something that's basically a meme. I know i'm one of many but you earned a like and a sub. Great analysis.
I'm not sure you would be able to tell the difference even if it did explode, i got a black friday deal Samsung, and its total trash. My off-brand chineese TV in the other room is better than the legit Samsung in every metric
Your choice in background music is straight up GOATED! You got soundtracks from the Gran Turismo games, Enthusia, and you even snuck in E-Z Rollers - Retro at around 12:03. Massive respect!
Idk if this is the first face reveal or not but holy shit you are so beautiful!!! Loved you’re videos for a while now and it’s so cool to put a face to the voice. And such a pretty one!! Keep up the great work! You’re content is amazing!
I only discovered your channel 2 days ago (because of the Wii Homebrew channel music vid, god I fucking love that tune...) and I've been binging your videos ever since. I can't believe you don't have more subs. Your content is hilarious, well researched and incredibly well made. Thanks for the videos and I sincerely hope your channel blows up and gets much bigger (maybe as big as Kongs balls?). Thanks again F4mi
Great video as always. Thanks for having quality subtitles - I don't always use them, but think its really important for accessibility reasons, and many UA-camrs with millions of subscribers don't put in the effort to add them
i randomly became curious about smasnug and decided to look it up. i was not expecting such a well made video on this topic but thank you so much for enlightening me.
i can see your voice being modded into portal replacing glados and instead of bullying chell you'll just tell her about random stuff about videogames and tech
when you started talking about OEM and explaining what it was, my brain was like "this is going way too far for a simple counterfeit thing" ... but i continued cuz it's really interesting how you can dig up again and again like it seems like it will never end, all starting from a simple thing xD
hello! nice in depth video on this, saw these too where i live in Algeria (which is neighboring Tunisia) and wondered where did they come from. i just wanted to also clarify that this doesn't just happen with TVs but other kinds of products (even ones ripping from popular brands in china like xiaomi), again good video! [hello to the dankpods fans watching this]
Heh, reminds me of these Chinese Lego knockoff-brands I was reading about in.. I guess the 90's? Perhaps as early as late 80's. There was one that the folks at Lego apparently found quite flattering for some reason. The brand name was 0937, or perhaps 0931. It was basically the Lego logo upside-down.
i appreciate how 2:05 is actually a somewhat sensible command i dont see it calling out to ImageMagick or anything so I don't know if it works but at least it's not just gibberish
Having a closer look at it, it does perform two kinds of rotation, but both only produce gibberish: The combination of 'rev' and 'tac' flip the base64-encoded data vertically and horizontally, which amounts to a 180° rotation (of the base64 encoded data, which is not very helpful). The tr applies a rot13 cipher to the base64 data, which can also be considered a rotation. It also doesn't do anything actually useful. Since both "rotations" undo themselves, you could try to treat this as a (very weak) cipher. Unfortunately, this will not generally work, as base64 introduces line breaks at a fixed point. Unless the length of the base64 encoded data is divisible by that line length, decoding and reencoding will move the line breaks around, so rotating it will now produce a different result. Since PNG is a compressed format, I don't think you could easily rotate it with a sequence of operations like this. For uncompressed formats, it might be possible. Also, it's probably possible to create a polyglot file where this exact command does actually produce the rotated image. (bonus points if you make it so that the tar archive can be renamed to .png to be the image) Anyway, this was fun to look at. Pretty sure that coming up with this mess was a lot more effort than finding the imagemagick command... Thank you for your comment, otherwise I wouldn't have given this a closer look xD
The linux joke was so funny xD It do be like that sometimes on Linux.
Рік тому+6
Wow, you got nerd sniped HARD with this one. I mean, after 2 weeks, I might as well have fallen, but not to the point of contacting the OEM. I’d be floored if you eventually get a 100 TVs to sell, because I know you’d make one hell of an ad for that. Awesome video, and delighted by your face reveal. You managed to hide yourself well in the King Kong Balls video, so this was unexpected.
Since we didn't see much of it on your quest for the King Kong Balls, I gotta say sharing you're quirky fashion to the video genuinely added so much and I hope it becomes a regular thing! Also expect a shoutout from Wade soon that'll get the extra attention the channel deserves. With that in mind, do a deep dive on CRAIG next.
The one with the three soccer balls is the weirdest one. Like how do you even come up with that idea we need it to be somewhere to Samsung but slightly different how should we change it. Fred got any ideas? Yeah how about we put three soccer balls in the middle instead of the AS and N? Fred you're a genius. Maybe you should be running this company.
Would it be possible to put all the music track titles in the description? Intros and outros are great, but there are so many songs I'd love to find that play over the course of the video.
Your videos are always so good, I never realised how much I need weird deep dives into niche tech stuff. Also dang I can't believe you have a real face and aren't just a sentient famiclone...
great video! here is what I can say about chinese manufacturers without ever going to china myself: I know a Stewardess who visits eastern asia several times per week and does all her shopping there (brought me some headphones and food items one time). the thing she told me was (watch out: anecdotal evidence) that you can buy pretty much everything there on the streets. most stuff is made in china and sold there for dirt cheap. the technology INSIDE of a smasnug 4K OLED Smart TV might as well be the same as inside the official counterpart by samsung! but you can buy it for a quarter of the price because the logo is different. if you buy a samsung or apple product in the western world, most of the money goes to the company selling the product, the same guys who came up with the advertisement, logo and marketing. that's why stuff is expensive most of the time. only a very small percentage is manufacturing/shipping costs. the same applies to sneakers, 200 dollar shoes being made for less than 10. where do you think all the money goes? the stewardess told me that eastern asia and especially china is kinda like the wild west of off-brand consumer electronics. this is where all the fake gameboys were being sold that still said "Nintendo" without any typos on them. she told me she once bought iPods for every single family member there and the price was like 10% of the original full price here in apple stores, although I can't confirm it or have a look at the authenticity of said iPods. do with that information what you wish, I guess it would be interesting to go there in person and film a documentary about the place where most stuff is being made (in weird giant factories) and what the working conditions are like. I think there was a fun scene in 'You don't mess with the Zohan' about resellers in new york trying to sell these off brand products as the real deal. kudos to you and nice work, can't wait for new entertaining uploads 👍
well you see, @genmaicha_, when a paisano puts his spaghetti noodle in mamma mia's ravioli, a little babmbino covered in prosciutto comes out about 9 months later.
@@genmaicha_ it's a reference to the first episode of the adventures of mario and luigi, i think. it just lives rent-free in my head, mostly because of vinesauce vinny.
At first I didn't even bother clicking the thumbnail. I needed few days to realize that it's your video and ahmagahd I never seen a woman looking like a woman in my retro-bubble. Cheers.
I love your videos. It took me a while to get used to the accent (I have to turn off my 2x speed video LOL) but it's worth it. These topics, your editing, sleuthing, and writing are captivating
Finally time for my username to shine
Hello I Am John Smasnug Please Remove Our Trademark Name Please Thank You
no fucking way
holy shit hi smasnug can i have a smasnug galaxl phone
SMASNUG!!!!
@@cammtigtoradora based as
she thinks we are gonna fall into the lie that she's a normal woman and not a personality core from portal
the sheeple will think it's real
GET OUT OF MY HEAD
@@RedKuwltI will never be a sheep
She was smart enough to find an actress that looks normal but not generically normal in a suspicious way?
@@tuppotBut the actress's accent is nowhere as thick as Queen F4mi's.
Now we wait for the SMASNUG X Michaelsoft Binbows crossover
dont forget Somy and OLG along with Pear
SMASNUG is Michaelsoft Binbows's evil counterpart
Personaly I think the Megahard Doors 11 is much better than Michaelsoft Binbows 11. And both are better than that new BigMacOS Mountain Bottom that Pear just released. But don't forget that Smasnug can and will for sure release a new competitor to the Ybox and put Twodroid on it. I'm sure they will call it the UwULED edition. But then comes LowG TV and their new AwwLED that will be so bright and colorful that we will all forget about the Binbows scandal. It's all in the Matrix dudes. We can't escape. Not even if you have a Ford Unfocused 2020. It's not fast enough to escape. Vote Trumpet for a better future, because with Bidet in power we can't go far. Or was it the other way around? Oh man
Michaelsoft Binbows was ran by a single guy in Japan who did PC repairs, who had a sense of humor. It was great to see it was on purpose and he was in on the joke from the start.
@@shiro3146 OMG not OLG 😂
The next step is clear: acquiring and shipping a genuine SMASNUG for Dankpods. It would go great with all his Craigs.
CRAIGGGG
Eeeee peeee ceeee
Also, Haitch pea
@@Eda-Clawthorne-BGC PKCELL
@@PETEESE ᵒʰ ᵐʸ ᵖᵏᶜᵉˡˡ
the f4mi face reveal is mental
i am sorry for the conspiracy theorists who thought i was an ai or a dude with a voice changer this is truly the worst day of the month for them
@@f4micom I had like €50 on you having brown hair, damn you to hell.
King Kong Ballers already knew.
@@donoteatmikezila REAL
@@f4micomEither way would not have been a problem 😂
Love ya voice and videos ❤
Say thanks to Dankpods for spreading that meme!
danks thankpods
Thank dank 👍
Dankepods
Oh my god. It's crazy how in depth you go into researching the these weird topics. Amazing video 10/10
Lets call SMASNUG to even so much @qzeq
7:43 i love these smash cuts you do in your videos. the bit literally never gets old. true evergreen.
It's a gag that'll never get old for me. Always makes me smirk.
More-so if there's a big lead up to the satisfying smash cut.
I will always love the fake-out / jump-cut combo.
"It's not like they would just leave the door unlocked, for anyone to walk rig--"
"Guys, _they left the door unlocked._ "
a true f4micom gal funny moment, everybody.
that cut scared the hell out of me!
Ha ha. Smol funneh.
1337 video length?
You know this one's gonna be good from that alone
1338
@@cvabdsyou sit on a throne of LIES
(or are from mobile)
Leet speak!
@@LatiosGigettoDoes mobile show 1s longer run times?
I watch… so much UA-cam on my phone. How do I not know about this?
@@LatiosGigettomy smasnug is telling me leet (13.37)
How is this channel this small? You research the most obscure and interesting topics. Love it.
You answered your question yourself. It's obscure.
f4mi, I just wanted to say thank you for protecting the actual creators of smasnug from actually being named who are probably just doing their best to get their products sold outside of the west. This is a really interesting topic, I feel like this could be studied in some sort of undergrad global economics course
Yeah, but the chinese trademark office will happily tell anyone who asks. They're not realy protected in your sense.
What protects them is the chinese government not caring much about foreign trademarks.
this is insane, as the biggest collector of old samsung galaxy phones in europe, all my komrades always mock me with the smasnug meme and im very happy after watching this because now theres someone i can take out all my rage and frustration on.
This is so mean of them. I would only mock you as an collector of explosives and call you Ted.
for a funny joke that was actually some pretty solid investigative journalism, well done!
Brilliant editing, and the music choices are top tier. I was reeling from both Cuba Baion and Hong Kong 97.
Supremely good as always, you're growing too powerful
I fucking giggled at Hong Kong 97
It's also the FDS Luo Tianyi cover. The NSF file for that is a bit of a lost media on its own. The original author is Chinese and they probably took it down for you know why.
Wonderful video. I've watched enough LTT and DankPods before to realize that it was almost certainly the OEM behind this, but knowing for sure is super awesome. Also your comedic timing never fails on me
These videos speak to me at a core level. Of course I had that extremely common MP3 player.
Excellent video once again and nice to see your talking head.
I think I had that very same mp3 player. got it in 2003 back when ripping entire albums from limewire was big. it probably cost something around 30 bux which was alot at the time, and the manufacturing cost was probably less than 3
I had no idea that SMASNUG was real. Just thought it was a DankPods thing, like the Nuggets, 1grit, huh duh six hungeos, etc. I remember putting a real Samsung monitor on FB marketplace and accidentally listing it as a Smasnug. Been following the channel since you uncovered the story behind the homebrew channel music. Keep up the cool videos!
This video goes places I was not at all expecting. Your dedication to the bit is incredible, especially with the costume changes. Top tier video.
Ah, the legendary SMASNUG
It was quite interesting to find out where it might have came from and how common it actually is
Also, hello to all DankPods viewers :)
ITS SMA SNUG
frank snake
i read your name as dingus, im crying
The 1 grit
PinguNSE? wow i didn't expect here you here
Incredible quality, I'm so glad I'm witnessing this channel grow!
2:06 i would have never thought to rotate an image by rearranging its bytes like this hahaha
Lol does the command actually rotate an image? I assumed it was juat a stock photo, since (as a linux user myself) I would have used ffmpeg
I love how in-depth you were with researching this. Also the Pentium 4 hat goes incredibly hard, I'm gonna start searching for one now.
The Half-Life 2 sound effects to censor her language were lit AF too
she has some top tier editing skills ngl
I don't know if she edits and cuts all her videos by herself, but whoever did it: nice job
Your editing has improved a ton. Nice work!
i realized the OEM garbage rabbit hole was deep but i had no idea it was THIS DEEP. thank you for turning it into some wonderful entertainment
Wow, the voice modulator was one thing, that's been easy to do for a while, but your new deepfake is great. I'm blown away by how convincing the CGI is! Feel like some people will actually be tricked lol. Keep up the good work, dude.
But seriously, you're one of the most under appreciated youtubers I've found, but I don't expect the obscurity to last too long.
Admire the amount of effort and research that goes into these niche topics, it fuels my need for extremely specific and stupid interests so much
Wow this video was really well made! Never thought I would find a dedicated nugget historian that was this dedicated, stupendous work!
Smasnug sounds like someone about to say "Would smash" and then, halfway through the sentence, censoring themself to a more wholesome snuggle.
"Would sma- snug."
You’ve outdone yourself with this one F4mi omg this was amazing
The amount of research that goes into your videos is actually incredible! You honestly inspire me to try go in more in my future vids because sometimes I make videos on random obscure topics lol.
This video appeared in my UA-cam home page. I'm glad that i clicked it because this is a deep research for something that's basically a meme. I know i'm one of many but you earned a like and a sub. Great analysis.
A lambda in the background, Half-Life sound effects, portal and dnb music, get your like.
If f4mi uploads it's going to be a good month.
Whenever you said Smasnug the first thing I thought of was dank pods, was not expecting him to be a topic of the video!
I'm not sure you would be able to tell the difference even if it did explode, i got a black friday deal Samsung, and its total trash. My off-brand chineese TV in the other room is better than the legit Samsung in every metric
A brand new nuuuuuuuuug
Your choice in background music is straight up GOATED! You got soundtracks from the Gran Turismo games, Enthusia, and you even snuck in E-Z Rollers - Retro at around 12:03. Massive respect!
OH MY GOD, I TRIED FINDING YOUR CHANNEL A MONTH AGO BUT I DIDNT REMEMBER THE USERNAME OR THE VIDEO I WATCHED AND NOW I FINALLY FOUND IT !
DAMN! The quality of your video / editing just got an exponential spike! This is awesome!
You know, I didn't have a TV for almost 20 years now. But this somehow makes me want to get a SMASNUG TV, just for the lolz.
Idk if this is the first face reveal or not but holy shit you are so beautiful!!!
Loved you’re videos for a while now and it’s so cool to put a face to the voice.
And such a pretty one!!
Keep up the great work! You’re content is amazing!
I only discovered your channel 2 days ago (because of the Wii Homebrew channel music vid, god I fucking love that tune...) and I've been binging your videos ever since. I can't believe you don't have more subs. Your content is hilarious, well researched and incredibly well made. Thanks for the videos and I sincerely hope your channel blows up and gets much bigger (maybe as big as Kongs balls?). Thanks again F4mi
Great video as always. Thanks for having quality subtitles - I don't always use them, but think its really important for accessibility reasons, and many UA-camrs with millions of subscribers don't put in the effort to add them
Yeah, I always enjoy custom subtitles. Especially joke ones on channels like TerminalMontage
8:11 GRAND SMASNUG?!?!?!? WHAT THE SH
you're the LAST person i'd expect to see in the wild like that
glad to see you're still existant at the current moment, though.
Why are YOU here??
Damn she got so many good videogame SFX/ sound tracks.
F4mi never fails to make us wait for 3 months for a 13 minute video
bro i am from tunisia and if this get 1k likes i will get it and record a vid of it
i randomly became curious about smasnug and decided to look it up. i was not expecting such a well made video on this topic but thank you so much for enlightening me.
i can see your voice being modded into portal replacing glados and instead of bullying chell you'll just tell her about random stuff about videogames and tech
that's what I call good investigative journalism!
this video made me realize why i subscribed to this channel. its amazing
when you started talking about OEM and explaining what it was, my brain was like "this is going way too far for a simple counterfeit thing"
... but i continued cuz it's really interesting how you can dig up again and again like it seems like it will never end, all starting from a simple thing xD
I was not prepared for that better call saul reference, nearly lost it LMAO
hello! nice in depth video on this, saw these too where i live in Algeria (which is neighboring Tunisia) and wondered where did they come from. i just wanted to also clarify that this doesn't just happen with TVs but other kinds of products (even ones ripping from popular brands in china like xiaomi), again good video!
[hello to the dankpods fans watching this]
a nugget has an entire lore?! insane!
I adore this type of high effort insane hyperfixation videos that you make
your one of those creators that makes me wish I could sub multiple times lol. Keep up the great work on your vids!
I haven't watched any Evangelion but my friends are into it enough I choked at the intro gag
This is the kind of investigative content that would make Columbo proud.
Heh, reminds me of these Chinese Lego knockoff-brands I was reading about in.. I guess the 90's? Perhaps as early as late 80's. There was one that the folks at Lego apparently found quite flattering for some reason. The brand name was 0937, or perhaps 0931. It was basically the Lego logo upside-down.
i appreciate how 2:05 is actually a somewhat sensible command
i dont see it calling out to ImageMagick or anything so I don't know if it works but at least it's not just gibberish
Having a closer look at it, it does perform two kinds of rotation, but both only produce gibberish:
The combination of 'rev' and 'tac' flip the base64-encoded data vertically and horizontally, which amounts to a 180° rotation (of the base64 encoded data, which is not very helpful).
The tr applies a rot13 cipher to the base64 data, which can also be considered a rotation. It also doesn't do anything actually useful.
Since both "rotations" undo themselves, you could try to treat this as a (very weak) cipher.
Unfortunately, this will not generally work, as base64 introduces line breaks at a fixed point. Unless the length of the base64 encoded data is divisible by that line length, decoding and reencoding will move the line breaks around, so rotating it will now produce a different result.
Since PNG is a compressed format, I don't think you could easily rotate it with a sequence of operations like this. For uncompressed formats, it might be possible.
Also, it's probably possible to create a polyglot file where this exact command does actually produce the rotated image. (bonus points if you make it so that the tar archive can be renamed to .png to be the image)
Anyway, this was fun to look at. Pretty sure that coming up with this mess was a lot more effort than finding the imagemagick command...
Thank you for your comment, otherwise I wouldn't have given this a closer look xD
The linux joke was so funny xD It do be like that sometimes on Linux.
Wow, you got nerd sniped HARD with this one. I mean, after 2 weeks, I might as well have fallen, but not to the point of contacting the OEM. I’d be floored if you eventually get a 100 TVs to sell, because I know you’d make one hell of an ad for that.
Awesome video, and delighted by your face reveal. You managed to hide yourself well in the King Kong Balls video, so this was unexpected.
Since we didn't see much of it on your quest for the King Kong Balls, I gotta say sharing you're quirky fashion to the video genuinely added so much and I hope it becomes a regular thing! Also expect a shoutout from Wade soon that'll get the extra attention the channel deserves. With that in mind, do a deep dive on CRAIG next.
I'm laughing for 30 seconds straight at the name "SMASNUG" hahahahaha
Hey Fami, you look very cute! >w< Btw nice video and great search, it's funny to see how such a simple meme led to making this video xd
I love the usage of the portal ost in the background, let alone the video length really sealing the deal on that one :')
came for the smasnug meme… stayed for the pentium hat. nice 👌
I love this channel, it's like Nick Robinson but somehow even nerdier
has she shown her face before? she is perfect
King Kong balls
Also her twitter
The one with the three soccer balls is the weirdest one. Like how do you even come up with that idea we need it to be somewhere to Samsung but slightly different how should we change it. Fred got any ideas? Yeah how about we put three soccer balls in the middle instead of the AS and N? Fred you're a genius. Maybe you should be running this company.
Would it be possible to put all the music track titles in the description? Intros and outros are great, but there are so many songs I'd love to find that play over the course of the video.
working on it rn
@@f4micom Thank you so much!
6:56: "OEM Manufacturer"
Original Equipment Manufacturer Manufacturer
Great video, But I need to know where to find the Pentium 4 hat?
This has to be your best produced video yet
Keep up the good work!
i own penesamig batteries theyre so lovely
the editing is TOP NOTCH for someone with half a hundred subs. Loving this!
The face reveal jumpscared me lol
2023 will be f4mi's renaissance year
Tesla aren't counterfeit TVs, they're actual products made by a Serbian company, nothing to do with the cringe emerald mine boy
I believe they were made by Vestel & rebadged as Tesla. Pretty common knowledge in the technosphere.
4:24 very sure that they censored smasnug with fifa footballs
I love keyboard smash off brands or just funny off-brands like Michaelsoft Binbows they're so funny
I love these silly obscure rabbitholes that lead to a random company or person from across the globe
Nice video you haven’t posted in so long
Your videos are always so good, I never realised how much I need weird deep dives into niche tech stuff.
Also dang I can't believe you have a real face and aren't just a sentient famiclone...
Ayo face reveal?!!
great video! here is what I can say about chinese manufacturers without ever going to china myself:
I know a Stewardess who visits eastern asia several times per week and does all her shopping there (brought me some headphones and food items one time). the thing she told me was (watch out: anecdotal evidence) that you can buy pretty much everything there on the streets. most stuff is made in china and sold there for dirt cheap. the technology INSIDE of a smasnug 4K OLED Smart TV might as well be the same as inside the official counterpart by samsung! but you can buy it for a quarter of the price because the logo is different. if you buy a samsung or apple product in the western world, most of the money goes to the company selling the product, the same guys who came up with the advertisement, logo and marketing. that's why stuff is expensive most of the time. only a very small percentage is manufacturing/shipping costs. the same applies to sneakers, 200 dollar shoes being made for less than 10. where do you think all the money goes? the stewardess told me that eastern asia and especially china is kinda like the wild west of off-brand consumer electronics. this is where all the fake gameboys were being sold that still said "Nintendo" without any typos on them. she told me she once bought iPods for every single family member there and the price was like 10% of the original full price here in apple stores, although I can't confirm it or have a look at the authenticity of said iPods. do with that information what you wish, I guess it would be interesting to go there in person and film a documentary about the place where most stuff is being made (in weird giant factories) and what the working conditions are like. I think there was a fun scene in 'You don't mess with the Zohan' about resellers in new york trying to sell these off brand products as the real deal. kudos to you and nice work, can't wait for new entertaining uploads
👍
you are beautiful ❤
As soon as I saw "SMASNUG", I knew dankpods will come in somewhere. Thank you for making this video :)
why are you italian
well you see, @genmaicha_, when a paisano puts his spaghetti noodle in mamma mia's ravioli, a little babmbino covered in prosciutto comes out about 9 months later.
@@generallyunimportant why the fuck would you write this i love it
@@genmaicha_ it's a reference to the first episode of the adventures of mario and luigi, i think. it just lives rent-free in my head, mostly because of vinesauce vinny.
Now the real challenge is getting your hands on a SMASNUG TV
At first I didn't even bother clicking the thumbnail. I needed few days to realize that it's your video and ahmagahd I never seen a woman looking like a woman in my retro-bubble. Cheers.
almost 14 min video about smasnug bootleg tvs - this is why i subscribed to you
What a wild ride. Never thought I'd see such a deep investigation on the SMASNUG meme. Awesome work!
what an emotional rollercoaster, helluva plot twist at the end. another 10/10 video
I love your videos. It took me a while to get used to the accent (I have to turn off my 2x speed video LOL) but it's worth it. These topics, your editing, sleuthing, and writing are captivating
wake up, new f4mi video!!
i don't think i would've thought to spend this much time on a topic like this, great video!
watching this on my SA⚽⚽⚽UG Slim Fridge
it always makes my day better to see a new upload from f4mi's channel
"Level of dedication they didn't know possible"
Within a year, demonstrates that they now know with donkey balls
I really appreciate the half life sounds
I laughed at the whole thing from start to finish. Good work detective!