YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by t_mann on Friday July 01, 2022 @10:37AM (#31946982)

Scary. I recently did some research into what's behind the 'Jungle Builders' channels (two guys pretending to build flashy, but completely dysfunctional, pools somewhere in a forest with little more than their hands as tools). Seems to be a similar scheme, it doesn't invite viewers to recreate, but they leave a lot of litter and moscito-infested concrete pits behind. Most of them are actually in the same tiny forest somewhere in Malaysia that looks like a v2 of the Banksy theme park now.

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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by teruakohatu on Friday July 01, 2022 @11:27AM (#31947755)

There is a whole genre of people building "by hand" underground pools and other crazy structures in the jungles. Aside from being terribly unsafe, if you look closely you can often see marks in the dirt from machine tools that they forgot to smooth away in the soft clay.

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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by Nextgrid on Friday July 01, 2022 @03:59PM (#31951980)

I think those are all knockoffs of the Primitive Technology channel.

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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by ncmncm on Friday July 01, 2022 @11:46PM (#31956022)

Which is, itself, very, very good.

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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by mulmen on Friday July 01, 2022 @11:45AM (#31948051)

Do you have some links to this? A few cursory quacks turned up nothing.

My family loves those channels but it would be interesting to see how the structures hold up and how/if they are ever used.

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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by t_mann on Friday July 01, 2022 @12:01PM (#31948379)

Here's one, although I don't like it because I feel like it's overdramatizing a bit. With construction quality this low, my hinge is that the jungle will claim back those spots fairly quickly, but the (drainless!) water pits will remain moscito breeders for a considerable amount of time (and wildlife trap hazards for some time).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCyLWhPnq1M

In response to your question: they hold up extremely poorly. But ecologically speaking, it's probably no worse than the average palm oil farm.

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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by mulmen on Friday July 01, 2022 @12:33PM (#31948941)

Yeah I wondered if this was some kind of “traditional” construction with modern style. But water-based masonry seems like a suspect choice in a rainy climate.

On the other hand I was wrong once back in the 90s.

Thanks for the link.

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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by t_mann on Friday July 01, 2022 @12:43PM (#31949105)

Fyi, here's a probably legit traditional jungle building channel (that clearly inspired the ripoffs, down to the no talking, shirtless + shorts):

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA

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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by hammock on Friday July 01, 2022 @02:59PM (#31951106)

That guy (Primitive Technology) is the original. Then someone started a different channel making swimming pools and it really caught on

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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by hammock on Friday July 01, 2022 @03:00PM (#31951115)

Can I ask what you tried searching? Because "Jungle Builders' channels" pulled it up immediately.

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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by mulmen on Friday July 01, 2022 @05:52PM (#31953483)

I was looking for the aftermath specifically. Not just the channels where the structures are built. So I searched “jungle builders aftermath” and “jungle builders today”.

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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by hammock on Friday July 01, 2022 @06:00PM (#31953574)

Found a video with the aftermath: https://youtu.be/YCyLWhPnq1M

For documentation purposes, I googled “jungle builders are a scam,” clicked the second result which is a Reddit thread and found this in the comments 4-5 parent comments down

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