YouTubers are spending big chunks of change on mystery boxes to open on their
channel, but could this trend end up getting them into trouble? Welcome back
to What's Trending, I'm Martine Beerman. Make sure to subscribe for more stories
about naughty, naughty boxes. Mystery boxes themselves are nothing new. People
have been exchanging them for years on the subreddit secret santa, but did you
know that you can buy mystery boxes on eBay?
It's true! Search for a mystery box and you'll find hundreds of boxes with unknown content for
purchasing, ranging in price from just a few bucks to several hundred dollars. And now, YouTubers are buying
mystery boxes and opening them for their audiences because we all love a good
package. This is the most by far that I have ever spent on a video. And they are
pretty adamant about the no refunds. It's a dog bed! Oh my God. It's a watermelon dog bed. I can totally
understand the appeal of these videos. I don't have like five thousand dollars to
randomly shove at a piece of crap, but I appreciate people who can and I will
enjoy watching them open it. Oh it's a belt. It's a Gucci belt. Look at this. GG, y'all.
Gucci, Gucci, Gucci. Oh yeah. It's kind of big, but it's okay. I
wonder how people like know people's sizes. And even though most of the
packages range between like twenty to thirty dollars, YouTubers like Guava
Juice claimed to have found ones that are significantly pricier. I have no idea
what's gonna happen, but I found this on eBay. One hundred thousand dollar mystery
box. It kinda looks a little bit sketchy. It says condition is perfect. That is
right. You will get your money's worth with this box. We sorted the results on
eBay by highest price and found boxes available for ten thousand to twenty
thousand dollars and even one for ninety thousand dollars. Who in their right mind
is gonna pay for that mystery box? I will give you a mystery box for half of that.
Thirty five thousand dollars. Because there's like no guarantee that you're
gonna get stuff that's actually equivalent to that price like they say
it, but there has to be a clause in the fact that it's like a mystery box, you
know? The description on the ninety thousand dollar box says a box will come
full of stuff? What will be inside? The treasures waiting... They will value at
least the price, or more! Excuse me, but if I am paying at least
ninety thousand dollars for a box full of crap, you have to assure me a little
bit more that it's gonna be worth my time and my money.
Guava Juice bought a $100,000 mystery box. Here's what he got. A pre-owned xbox one,
a box of fruit loops, a bunch of Mario clothes, a Rick and Morty tank top, a
mahjong set, and the only things of any real value was a Gucci bag and a $45,000
tag Heuer watch. I love Guava Juice, but I also know that a bunch of YouTubers fake
some of the sh*t that they do, so realistically, I don't actually think he
spent that money on the box. At least I'm hoping he didn't spend that money on
that box. Okay, so how do YouTubers who may not have as much spare change as
Guava Juice keep up with the trends you may ask? They head over to the dark web.
NameBran unboxed a dark web mystery box on his channel and claimed he found
human feces inside.
This is the part where ironically and not so ironically
say no sh*t, but what he first thought was a human foot, later just turned out to be
a rubber toy. It's still got a tag on it. Oh, it's a flippin' rubber toy.
Jude Somers claimed his dark web package came with what looks like some weird alien
poop, blood on a screwdriver and a working iPad. But skeptical commenters
online or warning people not to be taken in by this like dark web mystery box
thing. SirShlonger on reddit says "I can tell you with confidence that all of
these YouTube videos about purchasing things from the dark web are completely
fake. The process goes 1. Get a box, 2. Fill with generic creepy things, 3.
Record and act scared, 4. Get millions of views. It amazes me how many people
think they're real." Okay, but like 90% of the fun of these videos is thinking what
if that's real? It's like sitting around a campfire. Like, two-thirds of the
stories people tell there aren't real, but we still love that. I mean, it could
all theoretically be clickbait. Two thirds of it probably is, but there
is money and suspense in the "what if" so I highly doubt that that's going away
anytime soon. Also like I totally want to order a mystery box now. What do you guys
think? Do you want to order a mystery box? Do you think the stuff is real? And would
you get one from the dark web? Let us know in the comments and for more trends
head to whatstrending.com.