- So I have been making YouTube videos
for over 11 years now.
Today I've got a video that should be pretty interesting.
And while it's been a great run,
I think it's about time to do something a little different.
I am going to give away my YouTube channel.
So what does that exactly mean?
Well, obviously we have a ton of fun toys here, right?
I mean, I like shooting videos on an 8K RED,
but the thing is, I don't need it.
I'm shooting on my phone right now, and it is just fine.
But I wanna take it a step further,
by letting a bunch of strangers on the internet
make my video for me.
- Samsung Galaxy Note 7.
- And while, yes, it may or may not be
an entertaining, well thought through masterpiece,
like obviously all of my normal videos are,
(box thudding)
- [Matt] It's fragile.
- (throat clearing) But you know what we got going for us,
is the fact that I don't have to make it.
So, it's a big plus there.
So what happens when we let a bunch of internet strangers
take over my channel.
Probably not good thing, if I'm just gonna be real with you,
but this is probably a bad idea.
Now I think the first thing we need
is someone to actually do some research for us.
(laughing) Or someone can write our paper.
Now I do wanna be clear,
this video is not sponsored by Fiverr.
I have been sponsored by Fiverr in the past,
however, they have no affiliation
with this video whatsoever.
What! I will assist in medical and nursing research
being a doctor?
Did my doctor learn how to be a doctor on Fiverr?
I will write a tech article, tech blog,
or tech review for you.
Perfect, and $5 for 350 words.
Well, I feel like with this project,
I'm going to have to think about it in stages, right,
because someone has to research,
someone has to then write that up into a script,
then at that point I can send it out
to like a voiceover artist, or an animator.
Extremely cool voice over, okay.
Well if it's extremely cool.
No, wait, hold on.
- [Morgan Freeman Impersonator] Hi,
I'm not really Morgan Freeman.
- I could have, if we're gonna do five
of the worst tech products,
we could split them up and have
a different voiceover animator to do each one of them.
Okay, so some of these might get a little expensive.
I don't want Fiverr to make a boring video for me,
I want something cool.
- Hi there Fiverr's, Big Man Tyrone here,
internet celebrity - This guy’s such a legend!
Okay, I think we have all the basic research we need.
Now it's time to actually start sending out
some of these jobs to Fiverr
and see what we actually get back.
I'm not worried.
I'm sure it'll be fine.
I'm sure I'm not gonna be sucked into a black hole
of trying to make this video for the next six months
getting all this done.
So the first thing I did
was I sent out a very simple note asking,
"please give me five of the biggest tech failures."
What I got back was essentially a paper.
What are my five big tech fails?
Well it is the first generation Peloton,
it is the launch of Apple Maps,
actually, that's a pretty solid one.
Flammable hoverboards, very reasonable.
The Amazon Fire phone, which I had almost forgot,
I think I actually did a video on that.
Classic, the Samsung Galaxy Note 7
which famously exploded.
And that's it.
Wait, was that five?
So with my five tech fails chosen,
next step is to send it over to someone
to actually write up into an article.
And this is what I received.
Now this is actually pretty well done.
I mean just scrolling through here,
there's notes, there's bullet points.
So now that we have our tech fails,
now that we have our list written,
let's actually get these things voiceovered.
And the very first thing I have to do
is get Morgan Freeman to do my intro,
and to do one of the tech fails.
The next issue is what do we actually put on screen, right?
So normally if I'm making a video
on the top five tech fails,
I'm showing you footage and photos of the product.
- And today I'm here with the top five tech failures.
- So I'm gonna have to get a little creative
cuz I don't know if I can find enough animators
to do all these.
What I may need to do
is I may need to find someone to get me stock photos.
Oh, yes.
So I can just get someone,
if I get the Morgan Freeman voiceover
I'll just get someone to find me a bunch of stock footage
with like phones and like Apple Maps.
Oh God! What am I doing right now?
What is this even gonna look like?
How much is this gonna be?
Alright, so it has been a couple of weeks
and it is time to take a look and see
what our Fiverr masterpiece looks like.
So at this point, we have all of our voiceover,
we have all of our edited clips, we have all of our A-roll.
So the main question, really is just to watch it
and see what kind of masterpiece Fiverr's made for us.
- [Narrator] Hey guys, this is Austin.
Just kidding.
Here are some of the biggest tech fail
the world has.. - What have we done?
I'm so happy right now.
I've been working on this video for a while
and I've been very unsure of what it actually looks like.
Am I just wasting my time
and donating to a bunch of weirdos on Fiverr?
Anyway, before we watch it,
I actually have
a couple of people who made a video or two in their day
to watch it along with me.
So let's begin.
All right, three.
- Two.
- one, play.
- [Narrator] Hey guys, this is Austin.
Just kidding.
Here are some of the biggest tech fails
the world has had the misfortune of witnessing.
- Samsung Galaxy Note 7.
- Hoverboards were a hot item back in 2016.
- [Lady] Peloton, how they managed
to disappoint its customers.
- [Man] The Amazon Fire Phone
was doomed to fail from the beginning.
- [Narrator] Propelled by the launch of iPod
followed by iPhone and iPads.
Apple has arguably revolutionized modern mobile computing.
- So someone worked on this as in like to create.
- [Narrator] The unique design,
great hardware and customer satisfaction
has set the bar for its products very high.
However, it has also brought the company
into just one mistake away from public scrutiny.
- Ah, okay, so I see.
So the whole video is basically about how Austin Evans
became corporate America
and just outsourced everything to cheap labor,
and then collects all the money.
- Designed to make traveling over shorter distances easier
the boards featured complete foot control,
where pressurized pads were used as foot rests
to control the movement.
Popularity didn't last long after people started reporting
incidents of the gadgets exploding.
There were a total of 99 reports and 18 injuries,
including burns to neck, legs or arms.
Oh oh.
While some exploded during recharge
others simply burst into flames
while people were actually riding them.
The problem turned out to be the not so high quality
rechargeable lithium ion batteries they utilized.
- It is like Dumbledore meets Hagrid meets Jesus
meets Lumberjack.
- [Lady] There were a number of reasons
why Peloton bikes didn't take off in the market.
To begin with,
the bikes come with an extremely high price tag,
which generally starts at $2,245.
That's a pretty big investment
for something you might not even use that often.
- I mean, I have a lot of thoughts
currently about this Peloton
argument that's happening right now.
- [Lady] The indoor bikes
come with a Wi Fi enabled touchscreen tablet
that's streams live and on-demand classes.
It also gives you the option to work out alone
or compete with other participants virtually.
Even though all the features are great,
it does pose a problem when you run into an issue
and you have no idea how to solve it.
- Uh oh.
- Samsung Galaxy Note 7
was probably one of the most anticipated phones of 2016.
However, it didn't live up to the expectations
soon after the release.
- I do love that I can't tell where the real set starts
and ends with this guy.
The table seems to be real,
but I don't think the iMac is real.
- Customers started complaining of overheating,
and the phones eventually exploding.
After 35 reported incidents worldwide,
Samsung decided to recall every single one of the phones
that was sold.
The company stopped all sales and shipments
of Note 7 and worked to provide refunds.
(laughs)
- Okay, I'm into this now.
- Or exchanges.
However, it still wasn't enough.
Following the exchanges,
the supposedly safe replacements also started catching fire,
leading to Samsung recalling all of them as well.
- Uh oh.
- So wait, old dude and Mr. Black Vegeta,
they are...
are they like Fiverr employees, like what is this?
this all looks like old footage I don't...
- [Narrator] The release of iOS 6 for iPhone and iPad
brought with it just the mistake.
The upgrade featured Apple's own version
of a Maps application.
Instead of the one that relied on Google Maps technology.
This step didn't pay off as expected,
and led to major backlash from the public.
Some people also described it as a disaster.
The application was flawed to begin with.
The mapping technology was complex,
giving wrong directions and lacking turn by turn navigation.
- Maps.mp4 (laughs)
- [Narrator] Making the overall experience lackluster
as compared to Google Maps.
The criticism was so intense
that Apple's CEO had to issue a public apology,
and even suggested using Google Maps as an alternative.
- Uh oh.
- [Man] Leading to a 170 million dollar loss to the company,
the Amazon Fire Phone was doomed to fail
from the beginning.
The device was referred to as forgettable and mediocre,
causing Amazon to drastically change its price from $200
to 99 cents just after a month of its launch.
Now, why did the phone fail?
To begin with, it was overpriced,
essentially the same as an iPhone or Samsung Galaxy.
This was a major drawback,
since most of the people weren't ready to choose it
over the other alternatives
as it used a proprietary App Store
tailor-made for the company's phones and tablets,
which meant that developers
had to make different versions of their applications
specifically for the Fire Phone.
- Uh oh.
- That's it?
That's the end?
- I just watched
the longest four and a half minutes of my life.
- So what have we learned today?
Well, yes,
there are certainly many channels that are very successful
by basically being content farms.
And the problem there is that,
at least for our video that we made today,
it's not quite as cohesive as I would hope, right?
Like it doesn't really tell the story.
It tells a lot of individual stories,
but if I was going to do this again,
I think I would approach it in a little bit more of a
overarching sort of way versus just letting the internet
go completely wild with things.
If I've learned anything from this video though,
is I should probably just fire Ken, I mean,
really, what is he bringing to the table?
So how much was our Fiverr video to create?
Well, let's just see, shall we?
So first of all,
we have our animated whiteboard explainer.
So this is the person who did the Peloton animation,
and including tip it was $60 and 50 cents,
and I did tip pretty much everyone on here.
Next we have the stock footage commercial
which was the most expensive video we got at $170.
Elmer drinking coffee and reading about the hoverboard
was $74.
- Uh oh.
- And Tyrone talking about the Note 7 was a full 152 bucks.
The voiceover for the Fire Phone was $50.
The voiceover for Peloton was $56.
Morgan Freeman's voiceover was a bargain at 34 bucks.
And the research was done for 34
and the actual script itself was written for $17,
which comes out to a grand total of $647 and 75 cents.
So this is what happens when I run out of ideas
and I'm stuck inside my house for too long.
Thanks for subscribing to Austin's Fiverr corner.
(mumbles)
Could have done a Mystery Tech
but instead I did a Fiverr video, mmh.
Oh great, love that I look homeless,
I actually didn't realize you were gonna use this footage,
that's fine, it's all good.