Most famous youtuber showing us how to not use a laser

Alright, So I assume most of you here know this ridiculously famous youtuber 'Pewdiepie'. Well, it seems like he's another complete retard showing his lasers to millions of people while nearly blinding himself. While he does wear safety goggles, he has absolutely no clue what he's holding in his hands. Hell, I doubt he even knows it's a laser, and not a 'lightsaber'.

This video was made not much longer than the other video where a dude lets his kid wave a 1W Arctic around like it's a toy. To me, it seems like WL has been sending these out to known youtubers as the time frame between these two is minimal.

Anyways, this is another youtube video with millions of views that shows how to not tread lasers. And very likely, there will be quite a few people that order some laser online from seeing this video.

I wonder for how much longer these videos will keep popping up, as it's definitely not good for our community as laser hobbyists.

Here's the video, skip to 3:57 for the laser part.



Oh and, on a side not. Am I the only one facepalming at people that still claim the 1W Arctic to be the most powerful handheld available? I mean, come on. It's never been the most powerful, and it certainly isn't the most powerful these days either.

Thanks for sharing!

Reported.

-Alex

LeHap said:

Thanks for sharing!

Reported.

-Alex

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Thanks. Doubt it'll do anything as this dude is hitting the 40 million subscribers mark soon, but it's likely all we can do.

Edit: late congrats on your 4000th post Alex!

gozert said:

Thanks. Doubt it'll do anything as this dude is hitting the 40 million subscribers mark soon, but it's likely all we can do.

Edit: late congrats on your 4000th post Alex!

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Unfortunately yes, he brings in tons of money for YouTube so our actions are pretty pointless, but nothing can happen if nobody tries to step-up :yh:

Thank you haha!

-Alex

Hi,
im not the kind of person to bash folks but this guy is retarded. people like that shouldn't breed. Well see how far he gets in life without hurting someone. Thats 2 minutes ill never get back.. should have posted something more about this great hobby instead of watching this. God should have smacked him back into yesterday..

I've been to a couple websites where a lot of member seem to go crazy over him. I don't understand why so many are fascinated with him. That laser crap makes me dislike him even more.

Dr_Evil said:

I've been to a couple websites where a lot of member seem to go crazy over him. I don't understand why so many are fascinated with him. That laser crap makes me dislike him even more.

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I believe most of his subscribers are just kids that apparently think he's funny. Sadly many kids don't use common sense, and I wouldn't be surprised if this video has caused or will cause someone to go blind.

what a shittard!

Laserbeamk said:

The wierd thing is, I never even heard of being 'blinded' by a laser... Is this true or just people talk about it too much?

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I seriously hope you're trolling us now.

Let's put it this way. Do you think a soldering iron can burn your eye out? If so, then yes, lasers will do exactly the same. How severe the burn is depends on the output of the laser.

gozert said:

I seriously hope you're trolling us now..

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He's new to the hobby, but I have to say, I would of thought something like that is common sense. It drives me nuts that we have to tell people something as basic as not to shine a laser in your eyes or you WILL go blind! As for laserbeamk I have been helping him out with answering questions and went as far as giving him a brand new soldering iron and helping hands so he could complete his first build. I really hope he was just kidding about that even though its not something to joke about. If he was serious about that question, I'm regretting sending him that stuff.... I have a feeling he is very young!!!

gozert said:

Alright, So I assume most of you here know this ridiculously famous youtuber 'Pewdiepie'. Well, it seems like he's another complete retard showing his lasers to millions of people while nearly blinding himself. While he does wear safety goggles, he has absolutely no clue what he's holding in his hands. Hell, I doubt he even knows it's a laser, and not a 'lightsaber'.

This video was made not much longer than the other video where a dude lets his kid wave a 1W Arctic around like it's a toy. To me, it seems like WL has been sending these out to known youtubers as the time frame between these two is minimal.

Anyways, this is another youtube video with millions of views that shows how to not tread lasers. And very likely, there will be quite a few people that order some laser online from seeing this video.

I wonder for how much longer these videos will keep popping up, as it's definitely not good for our community as laser hobbyists.

Here's the video, skip to 3:57 for the laser part.

Oh and, on a side not. Am I the only one facepalming at people that still claim the 1W Arctic to be the most powerful handheld available? I mean, come on. It's never been the most powerful, and it certainly isn't the most powerful these days either.

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I'm quite sure they are doing just that. I read a post just the other day where WL sent a "famous" YouTuber a free laser, but still had not sent one to a guy who had won one of their contests many, many months ago. They're trying to use these people as advertising.

What a moron. I can just imagine all those kids that watch his channel wanting to get a high power laser now, and ruining their vision or doing worse things....

gozert said:

I seriously hope you're trolling us now.

Let's put it this way. Do you think a soldering iron can burn your eye out? If so, then yes, lasers will do exactly the same. How severe the burn is depends on the output of the laser.

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i think he meant like completely blinded, like no vision in that eye whatsoever. as far as i know, nobody on the forums and had an eve rendered entirely useless by a laser, but there are some nasty horrible accidents and such, so lasers are not to be fucked around with.

moral of the story: dont mess with laser safety, cause lasers will easily do massive damage if your not carefull.

also, i emailed pewdiepie about this, as well as jacksepticeye (who will see the email becuase he always reads all of his emails, yes im a fan of JSE) and hopefully he with talk to pewdiepie about it if pewdiepie doesn't do anything.

cant stand that guy.. not even gonna bother watch that crap.

noobphaser215 said:

He's new to the hobby, but I have to say, I would of thought something like that is common sense. It drives me nuts that we have to tell people something as basic as not to shine a laser in your eyes or you WILL go blind! As for laserbeamk I have been helping him out with answering questions and went as far as giving him a brand new soldering iron and helping hands so he could complete his first build. I really hope he was just kidding about that even though its not something to joke about. If he was serious about that question, I'm regretting sending him that stuff.... I have a feeling he is very young!!!

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Yeah, I know he's new to the forums. But I was a bit surprised by him wondering if a laser could actually blind you. I've known that lasers can blind you since I owned my very first <1mW red pointer that was powered by three button cells. He could be very young, definitely. But not knowing if a laser can actually blind yet having an account on a laserpointer forum, where there's countless threads about safety really made me wonder whether it's a troll of legitimate question.

Anyways, whether he knew or not, he now knows that lasers can easily blind you.

kill this dude as he is to frigging stupid to live