TechRax

TechRax
Personal information
Born Taras Maksimuk
(1993-08-05) 5 August 1993
Lutsk, Volynska Oblast, Ukraine
Nationality Ukrainian American
Occupation YouTuber
YouTube information
Channel
Years active 2009–present
Genre Destruction
Subscribers 6.1 million
Total views 1.74 billion
100,000 subscribers 2013[1]
1,000,000 subscribers 2015[2]
Subscriber and view counts updated as of July 1, 2018.

TechRax is a YouTube channel[3] that focuses on making videos about the destruction of cell phones (particularly iPhones and Samsungs) and other technological devices.[4] The channel was founded by Taras Maksimuk (Ukranian: Тара́с Ма́ксимук) on September 20, 2009, and its most popular video is "Taking a Bath in a Giant 1,500 Gallon Coca-Cola Swimming Pool!" which surpassed 68,000,000 views in under one month.[5] As of July 1, 2018, the channel has over 6 million subscribers and over 1.4 billion total views.

History

Maksimuk began the TechRax channel as a standard tech blog but switched over to tech destruction videos in 2012 after discovering a demand for them. Maksimuk used the advertising revenue to finance his college studies.[6] The first destruction he did is "iPhone 5 Hammer Smash Drop Test -Episode #1-".[7] The destruction of Apple products are the most popular on the channel.[8]

Format

TechRax's videos generally follow the same format, and involve 'stress tests', drop tests and experiments involving the deliberate destruction or damage of technology, typically smartphones or laptop computers. Maksimuk has crushed an iPhone 5S under a train,[9] boiled an iPhone 6 in Coca-Cola,[10] performed a head-to-head comparison between an iPhone 6 and Samsung Galaxy S6 to see which survives longer when boiled in water,[11] and destroyed an Apple Watch Edition with neodymium magnets.[8] The watch cost $10,000, which he raised through advertising in other videos.[12] The video drew over six million views by February 2016.[13] He subsequently melted crayons and dipped an iPhone 6s into them which then resulted in a major fire.[13] His most popular video is "Taking a bath in a 1500 gallon swimming pool filled with Coca-Cola. He also added 200 pounds of ice a half bucket of Mentos which only made minor reactions. Later in that video, he destroyed a brand new DJI Phantom 4 by flying it into the pool, a video which has 61 million views as of January 2018.[14]

Drop tests

A common video format on the channel involves drop tests of iPhones and other related technology, normally after encasing them in a substance to see if they would survive the fall. Other videos involve dropping objects from tall buildings.[15]

Controversy

TechRax is often criticized for destroying perfectly good and working devices, a huge majority of them being brand new. His most popular video, "Taking a Bath in a Giant 1,500 Gallon Coca-Cola Swimming Pool!" has over 202,000 dislikes. On March 4, 2017, Maksimuk released a video in which he poured molten aluminum on an iPhone and also onto several live Madagascar hissing cockroaches together with the phone, allegedly to see if the cockroaches would survive. Many viewers were disturbed by the video, which led to Maksimuk subsequently deleting the video from YouTube.

References

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  3. ↑ "Techrax". YouTube. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
  4. ↑ Bort, Julie (2015-07-31). "This guy built a YouTube following by destroying thousands of dollars of iPhones just for fun". Business Insider. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
  5. ↑ TechRax (2016-06-24), Taking a Bath in a Giant 1,500 Gallon Coca-Cola Swimming Pool!, retrieved 2016-07-14
  6. ↑ Orf, Darren (2015-05-05). "Meet the Twisted YouTube Geniuses Who Destroyed the Apple Watch". Gizmodo. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
  7. ↑ TechRax (2012-09-25), iPhone 5 Hammer Smash Drop Test -Episode #1-, retrieved 2016-05-22
  8. 1 2 Kooser, Amanda (2015-06-15). "Watch a $10,000 Apple Watch get crushed by powerful magnets". CNET. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
  9. ↑ Statt, Nick (2014-07-24). "iPhone 5S vs. train goes exactly like you'd expect". CNET. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
  10. ↑ Wehner, Mike (2014-12-17). "Boiling an iPhone 6 in Coca-Cola, for science". Engadget. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
  11. ↑ Moscaritolo, Angela (2015-04-23). "Watch What Happens When You Boil an iPhone 6, Galaxy S6". PC Magazine. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
  12. ↑ Elmer-DeWitt, Philip (2015-06-14). "Watch a $10,000 gold Apple Watch get destroyed". Fortune. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
  13. 1 2 Kooser, Amanda (2016-02-15). "Watch an iPhone try to survive a hot melted-crayon bath". CNET. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
  14. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pool-filled-with-coca-cola_us_57703701e4b017b379f64b73
  15. ↑ http://rayanuk.com/20160414230552013/can-lego-protect-an-iphone-6s-from-100-ft-drop-test
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