Hence the razor!
~Max
Can I hold your beer?
Just don’t spill any on the live wires. That’s not the buzz you’re looking for.
I may not be needing it for much longer! It’s yours!
Also dangerous.
Razors that is.
It’s not a matter of greed. It’s just a matter of what’s possible. With a platform as large as YouTube, it’s simply impossible for every video to be reviewed by intelligent, responsible, people. The only way the platform is even possible at all is to have a system of review, most of which is automated and/or crowdsourced. And those reviewers, bots, professionals, and crowds, will inevitably make some mistakes.
I’m reminded of a friend’s Facebook group that got Zucked for promoting pseudoscience because it was making fun of people who promote pseudoscience.
Yup, YouTube has no trouble taking down, multiple times and immediately no less, Thunderf00t’s video debunking a Covid denialist but the videos I reported for spreading Covid conspiracies are still up.
Aren’t there lots of Youtube videos in which someone demonstrates a 100000 A or 100000V power supply, or blows stuff up using (often homemade) explosives, or abuses microwave ovens in increasingly foolish ways, or shoots stuff up with military firearms, or handles dangerous chemicals, or races cars down city streets, you name it? It’s full of “don’t try this at home” videos for entertainment.
Why not? That’s the kind of buzz you can enjoy for the rest of your life!
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You did it!! YouTube has REVERSED its decision & reinstated my original safety video! AMAZING EFFORT everyone, this is a really important issue & I believe it will genuinely save lives. Thank you for sharing, tweeting, commenting! Unfortunately, we lost 7000+ original comments but already 1000s of people have jumped on it again & the video is rising up search results for ‘fractal wood burning’. Let’s get it stuck at the top, so it’s the first thing that crafty folks see when they search the topic.
Amazon seems to have a good thing going, monetizing fractal wood burning kits. Lots are available, including one that includes a 10,000 volt neon sign transformer.
Gotta be safe, would they sell it otherwise? 
eBay lists similar devices.
Years ago in pre-YouTube days, people were promoting a “hack” which involved rewiring a shoplight-type fluorescent fixture to markedly increase light output, for growing plants. I redid a couple fixtures this way myself and they worked. I wouldn’t attempt something like that today.
Old hobby books teach kids how to make spark-gap transmitters out of capacitors and induction coils. Once I made a “Jacob’s ladder” out of spare parts. Is any of that safe? Probably not, especially as soon as anything plugs into the mains.
When I was in grammar school the teacher pounded two nails through a board and then wired a bare cord to each nail, Placed a hot dog across the two nails and plugged it in.
Not safe, but a little different getting buzzed off the mains (I was stupid enough to work on electricity without throwing the breakers as a twenty-something and got plenty of shocks—would never do now) and working off the other end of a transformer.
That’s just AC line voltage, which is certainly dangerous, but with a dry board and no one stepping in a puddle and grabbing both nails at the same time it’s unlikely to result in death. We had a commercial model of one of those long ago, not sure where it came from, it had spikes to cook maybe 8 dogs at once, but the power to those spikes passed through an interlock in the lid so it was quite safe as kitchen appliances go.
My coathanger thing with the DIY flyback driver and bodged transformer managed to produce 20–25 kV (not very impressive, unfortunately); I measured it.
These days… sure enough, there seem to be many youtube videos explaining what you can do with old TV set parts. Some of them even warn you how to prevent various capacitors and transistors from exploding.
Many years ago, my television would start making an annoying buzzing sounds after it had been on for a little while. I looked up what the probem might have been, and a good candidate for the noise was the laminate for the wires coiled around the back coming loose. Technically this was something I might have been able to fix myself, but all the sites I read also warned me of the possibility of killing myself if I didn’t safely discharge the electricty somehow. So I figured that was a do-it-yourself project that just wasn’t worth the risk.
I still remember the part in the A+ certification manual that described, in detail, how you would die if you didn’t properly discharge that capacitor.
“That capacitor” being the picture tube itself.