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.

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.

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

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

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

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”.

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