Too bad, his channel was/is really good.
Was anyone else as curious as I was as to why he nearly always wore gloves, even when the situation didn’t demand the protection. My theory is that he was self conscious about his hands.
This is terrible news. He was so young. The headline said he died in an accident and I thought it was an accident with a vacuum chamber or blow torch or caustic substance. You know, the things he played with every day. Inexplicably, I am relieved to find out it wasn’t his channel that caused his death.
Never checked out his channel. He did a crossover with a couple of people that I watch and all the comments made it sound like his main specialty was self-promotion more than making good scientific/craftery content. No idea if that’s true or not?
At 11m viewers, hopefully he had a will. The money coming in is probably pretty reasonable.
Ease of filming, maybe? With gloves, you could switch back and forth with the camera and other equipment without getting it messy from whatever it is that you’re doing on camera if that’s dusty or slimy or whatever.
My son, when I told him this news: Well, that is a rather random way to die.
He did science about as much as the mythbusters actually busted myths. His stuff was more along the lines of ‘what happens if I drive a nail through a Lithium Ion battery’ or “Lets put Orbeez in the microwave”. It was more that it was fun to watch rather than actual science. At most, what he did was built within the PHEOC framework.
Looking through his videos, there was clearly some confirmation bias on my part. There’s plenty of things he does with gloves on where he absolutely doesn’t need them, but he certainly doesn’t always wear them like I thought.
I’m sure it was. He was one of those youtubers, like many others, who’s production value greatly increased over the years, as did the stuff in the background (as in, he was spending money on himself). So he probably was doing pretty well.
I posted this to Imgur as well (surprised I didn’t already see multiple posts about it) and the small handful of comments I got we’re basically ‘that was a random way to die’ and ‘he was doing something stupid, of course he died’. I was surprised it was downvoted fast enough that it really never got anywhere. I figured the Imgurians would have followed him.
Oh well. The content is good and I’m sure it’ll be up for a while yet.
For comparison’s sake, he is a bit like Cody’s Lab, but with less ‘over you head’ science talk and more fun. Smarter Every Day is a good middle ground between the two.
Yeah, I saw him on Cody’s.
Though, these days, I’m skipping Cody because he’s not doing stuff quite as interesting plus I get the sense that he’s going a bit weird.
Being out in the middle of nowhere with only strongly positive feedback from a small number of people, and a need to be entertaining for the camera, and probably almost all positive feedback from a faceless money granting audience as well probably isn’t a good recipe. Particularly not if you’re already an inherent mad scientist. Boy needs some time with average folk to mellow the edges a bit.
I watch some random Cody videos, if he upped the production value a bit, I think they’d be considerably better. Nothing he even needs to spend money on. Two things, IMO, would make a world of difference, someone else holding the camera and working on his presence. He’s got an odd combination of comfortable and awkward in his videos. He seems to enjoy what he’s doing, but he comes off like a camera shy Professor Frink. Some work in that department (I don’t know, acting lessons? Vocal coach?) would make the videos a lot easier to watch. Having said that, and Cody if you happen to see this, they are still interesting videos and I do watch them.
Are we back to talking about KofR or Cody. If we’re talking about Cody, yeah, I guess that’s what I was saying, if we’re talking about KofR, he never struck me as pretty normal, he’s just an interest in what he’s doing and a knack for being good on camera.
I was talking about Cody. (No offense to him should he be a Doper or come across the forum. I grew up in the middle of hermit central so I have the ability to look back at myself and some others from the area and say that you need regular contact with regular folk talking about regular things to help you realize the gap.)
I’m curious as to what he does for a living. His knowledge of chemistry seems to far exceed what you could teach yourself on the internet and he appears to be comfortable enough with it that I’m guessing that’s what he does for a living.
Also, he must have more mercury on hand then most (any) civilian.