ElectroBOOM

About

ElectroBOOM is an educational-comedy YouTube channel in which Iranian Canadian electrical engineer Mehdi Sadaghdar performs various electric experiments during which he is often electrocuted.

History

On April 6th, 2012, the first video was uploaded to the ElectroBOOM YouTube channel titled "Don't worry, it's just ESD! (Electrostatic Discharge)" (shown below, left). Over the next six years, the video gathered upwards of 2.7 million views and 420 comments. On January 18th, 2013, Sadaghdar uploaded a video titled "Just Try and Make Your Own Coil-Gun (Accelerator)," which gained over 7.7 million views and 7,000 comments (shown below, right).

On March 6th, a video in which Sadaghdar electrocutes himself with alternating current and direct current was uploaded to the channel (shown below, left). On December 1st, 2014, the ElectroBOOM channel released a video in which the host attempts to remove his mustache with wax, a homemade taser gun and fire (shown below, right).

On May 26th, 2015, Sadaghdar uploaded a video featuring a musical Tesla coil (shown below, left). On October 25th, 2016, a video debunking a viral video for making a smartphone wireless charger was uploaded to the channel (shown below, right).

Demonetization

On November 9th, 2017, Sadaghdar uploaded a video criticizing YouTube for demonetizing his videos which had not violated the site's advertiser-friendly content policies (shown below).

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