A Barbie doll sits innocently atop a workbench, unaware of the 100 tons of terror that are about to close in on it. Off camera, we hear a man with a Finnish accent say ominously that the doll is “beautiful… but [for] how long?” A motor starts whirring up and within seconds a hydraulic press closes in on the iconic toy and then… SQUISH.
This is the kind of wanton destruction that occurs on a regular basis at the Hydraulic Press Channel, a YouTube channel that popped up last year and has since become a smash hit on social media sites like Reddit. As of this writing, the channel has more than 450,000 subscribers and its videos have been watched collectively more than 36 million times.
This week, BGR talked with the channel’s founder Lauri Vuohensilta about his newfound Internet fame and his ambitions to take crushing things with hydraulic presses to a whole new level.
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