TechRax
TechRax | ||||||||||
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Volynska Oblast, Ukraine | ||||||||||
Nationality | Ukrainian-American | |||||||||
Occupation | YouTuber | |||||||||
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Years active | 2009–present | |||||||||
Genre(s) | Tech reviews and tech destruction | |||||||||
Subscribers | 7.63 million[1] | |||||||||
Total views | 2 billion[1] | |||||||||
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Alma mater | California State University | |||||||||
Last updated: 12 April 2023 |
TechRax is a YouTube channel[4] focused on making videos about the destruction of phones and other technological devices.[5] The channel was founded by Taras Maksimuk (Ukrainian: Тара́с Ма́ксимук; born August 5, 1993) on September 20, 2009.[citation needed]
History
Maksimuk began the TechRax channel as a standard tech blog but switched over to tech destruction videos in 2012 after discovering a demand for them. Maksimuk used the advertising revenue to finance his college studies.[6] The first destruction video he did is titled "iPhone 5 Hammer Smash Drop Test -Episode #1-".[7] The destruction of Apple products are the most popular on the channel.[8]
Format
TechRax's videos generally follow the same format, and involve
Drop tests
A common video format on the channel involves drop tests of iPhones and other brands of phones, occasionally after encasing them in a substance to see if they would survive the fall. Other videos involve dropping objects from tall buildings.[14]
References
- ^ a b "About TechRax". YouTube.
- ^ "100K Subscribers iPhone 5 Giveaway!". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2014-03-27. Retrieved 2017-06-18.
- ^ "IPhone 6 Mega Giveaway! 1M Subscribers Special!". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2017-03-06. Retrieved 2017-10-18.
- ^ "Techrax". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2016-06-01. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
- ^ Bort, Julie (2015-07-31). "This guy built a YouTube following by destroying thousands of dollars of iPhones just for fun". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 2016-05-25. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
- ^ Orf, Darren (2015-05-05). "Meet the Twisted YouTube Geniuses Who Destroyed the Apple Watch". Gizmodo. Archived from the original on 2016-05-23. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
- ^ TechRax (2012-09-25), iPhone 5 Hammer Smash Drop Test -Episode #1-, archived from the original on 2015-11-28, retrieved 2016-05-22
- ^ a b Kooser, Amanda (2015-06-15). "Watch a $10,000 Apple Watch get crushed by powerful magnets". CNET. Archived from the original on 2016-05-20. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
- ^ Statt, Nick (2014-07-24). "iPhone 5S vs. train goes exactly like you'd expect". CNET. Archived from the original on 2016-05-16. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
- ^ Wehner, Mike (2014-12-17). "Boiling an iPhone 6 in Coca-Cola, for science". Engadget. Archived from the original on 2016-08-12. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
- PC Magazine. Archivedfrom the original on 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
- ^ Elmer-DeWitt, Philip (2015-06-14). "Watch a $10,000 gold Apple Watch get destroyed". Fortune. Archived from the original on 2016-04-02. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
- ^ a b Kooser, Amanda (2016-02-15). "Watch an iPhone try to survive a hot melted-crayon bath". CNET. Archived from the original on 2016-05-26. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
- ^ "Can LEGO Protect an iPhone 6S from 100 FT Drop Test?".