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How Primitive Building Videos Are Staged

SunnyV2 · 24.3M views · 2022-07-07 · 10:50

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Overview

A video debunking popular primitive-building YouTube channels, arguing that their digging, concrete and construction are staged. It uses the Primitive Technology channel as a baseline for what is plausible in a natural setting.

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HN cites it as an exposé of fake primitive-tech copycat channels, usually when the genuine Primitive Technology videos come up.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2022–2024

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kratom_sandwich · 2024-01 · Criticism

Here's a pretty interesting research into the countless fakers this channel has inspired: "How Primitive Building Videos Are Staged" - [VIDEO]

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neom · 2023-03 · Criticism

Totally unrelated to this video, just related to the subject matter on YouTube. Interesting how some of these style videos are totally bs. [VIDEO] [LINK] Again just to be clear, I believe this channel is legit. Just the genre on YouTube has some disingenuous stuff.

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stephen_g · 2023-01 · Criticism

There’s an interesting video digging into the way these copycats are fake too [1] - if you watch them you can often see things like excavator tracks that haven’t been hidden well enough, and they found somebody involved who talked about how the buildings are built by teams of people on leased land and then just abandoned when the video is done… But I think they do cater to a different audience. You need a fairly long attention span to watch the real, not-faked Primitive Technologies videos, whereas the copycats not so much. And the real channels is always pretty interesting, whereas the copycats are all the same thing, so they’re probably not really taking that many views away. But yeah, they should definitely have to come up with less similar names to the real thing! 1. [VIDEO]

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