DIY craft videos have been effortlessly expanding its empire and reach over various platforms of social media, such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. Considering its appearance in almost anywhere, most social media users are most likely to encounter one of their videos at least once.
The fact that people have ever watched the video is not surprising concerning its exploding popularity. Take Troom Troom and 5-Minute-Craft on YouTube for example. The amount of views for each of their videos reaches millions and hundred millions.
Wisely speaking, each of the videos is well-presented. The thumbnails are colorful and eye-catching, mostly clickbaiting. The content depicts seemingly simple experiments that might be useful in daily lives. Not to mention, the upload rates per month are incredibly high.
However, as it receives a huge amount of daily audiences, it also earns backlashes from various sides. Starting from other content creators, social media users, and even mainstream media, the channels have been encountering criticism every now and them.
That said, what are the problems with the social media’s DIY craft videos?
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Criticisms Surrounding Social Media’s DIY Craft Videos
The DIY craft videos, more accurately DI-WHY, have too many problematic issues to even be listed in a mere article. Varying from falsity up to brainwashing, the contents are ‘illogical.’
To begin with, pertaining to falsity, most of the videos are promoting supposed-to-be life hacks that hack nothing in life except the viewers’ brains. Most of the contents are fake and telling lies, and many people have debunked these lies since their popularity gaining pace.
For instance, one of the videos shows a ‘hack’ on how to make an egg bigger. Showing a two-day experiment, the video displays the trick to enlarge the size of a small egg. Believe it or not, they post this nonsensical craft.
Another problem with the channels is pertaining to its target audience. With the way the brand their channels and contents, most of their viewers are underage kids who have yet to develop their analytical and critical thinking.
Since they also appear to trigger creativity and provide useful information in an apparently fun way, parents tend to let their children watch the videos. Meanwhile, in reality, most of the contents involve dangerous experiments besides full of fakes.
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