Hypnotic New YouTube Channel CRUSHING The Competition

"The Hydraulic Press Channel is pretty self-explanatory: "Wanna see stuff getting crushed by hydraulic press? This is the right channel for you."

So reads the YouTube description of this hot new viral sensation. Weekly footage depicting heavy-duty machinery crushing objects as innocuous as an Easter basket and finicky as hockey pucks have proved wildly popular on social sites like Reddit ever since an Oct. 6 video introduced the world to the most surprisingly soothing thing since ASMR.

The 100-ton machine featured in the videos costs tens of thousands of dollars and has been used for commercial purposes for over two decades—mostly bending and unbending things. Only recently did a Finnish man who'd been using the press for work think about its other applications. In his first experiment, the hydraulic press crushed a golf ball. Ethan Meixsell's metal banger "Thor's Hammer" sets the mood before the cathartic hum of a hydraulic cylinder cuts in and crushes the object."

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The Young Turks April 5, 2016 Hour 2

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[iPolitely]

It's not a "pervy" thing, it's just entertainment

[priyonjoni]

Can we get trump's head in there?

[jvc]

As a finnish guy I have to say that many finns could find it insulting that Cenk thinks that our accent sounds russian. But on the other hand it is understandable that he doesn't recognise it because finnish accent is globally very unknown.

[aljdalksjh]

It's not a fetish... It's just interesting

[Lycku]

where did you get fetishes from this. wtf lol

[mozzes]

Why did it go in the fetish direction at all?! It's like watching people break stuff! or build something in fast motion, It's just a cool thing to watch.
This was a weird video TYT....

[StoneyTullip]

I love it when you can hear the staff laughing at the end!

[oBCHANo]

"As you guys know" No Anna, you know, nobody else thought that was a fetish.

[Dreadnaught]

Machinery = ✓
Strange Accent = ✓
Wit = ✓
DESTRUCTION = ✓

Quality internet video!

[AndersPuschel]

Let me just say that those off-camera laughs that we hear in a lot of TYT videos are great. Don't lose them.

[gentrywalker]

Kids in Africa could've eaten that golf ball!!!

[DeanAndBren]

The hockey puck explodes. Who would have seen that coming?

[Slvah]

As a Finn, I had a hard time removing the palm of my hand from my face when listening to that accent.

[vikipoyta]

Thats the most Finnish accent Ive ever heard

[callumbrankin]

why do they keep saying fetish, it isn't sexual or anything

[chasecompton]

Why is everything about a fetish? It's just cool to see things get crushed.

[JakeNukemD]

Why do people think that everything needs to be sexual? :D It's just for laughs.

[gammaomega]

My guess is that most find it interesting to see how different objects break. Does it shatter? Does it get flattened? Etc.

[humboldthammer]

It's called learning something. Learning releases chemicals into the pleasure centers of your brain. The simplicity is in the observation. The viewer gets to think about it -- and smile.

[inademv]

I see it more in the same vein as the "will it blend" video series.