LOL you guys should forward this video every KZfaqr and show them that they're being scammed by Google if they have any of those, see how many people get angry at Google for their scam.

i understand what u are doing. but subs got you the play button so to charge subs for one is kinda umm 😢pieces could be tossed in for merchandise would be more appropriate vut really random subs that got you to q mil should ve pucked. because at a million subs we know channels are making money even with the guys tbat destroy expensive cars for fun. i do love the channel though just wish i got more notifications from it!!

@@josephbennett3482yeah, how dare Google not send me a 20 pound solid gold plate

how did none knew its wood cmon man think realisticly

@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5 I ain’t gonna repent just cause god accidentally gave me a guys body

Stamp an apple on it and you can charge a couple thousands extra

​@@UnderEuA half-eaten apple*

​@@nocount7517*an apple with a single bite

@@jwalster9412 Still counts as half-eaten.

@@nocount7517if your bite is big enough

Nope, that's how cheap YT is.

How silly. It's a wall-hanger, no more, no less.

Such a thin layer of aluminum on top!

Same. Boy was I fooled...

It would be so heavy

If ppl really wanted to do that i bet they could create a better counterfeited one for waaaay cheaper

And is really there so you can have it in another location. Like another house or even one in your studio where you record, if you have just only one house. Or if it needed replaced.

​@@paille-boylol this is a thing yeah

@@paille-boythey actually do that lol, you can order one with your name online

no one would buy and sell them at a higher price if they were sold at a lower one. This argument doesnt defend any actual specific price.

The small ones?

@@gabecollins5585 yea, they were made with relatively cheap metals but they were solid chunks of it, engraved glass and an aluminum frame

The first ones were actually real gold... Like 30 channels received them

Honestly they kinda have to mass produce them now, you don't really seem to realise how many people are hitting 100k, and 1mil respectively

That's the problem, mass produced.

Original comment was a brain fart and i later took my L but since people keep commenting i will edit. Original comment “Too heavy to hang on the Wall”

@@ItsDoms actually my coworker machined a inch thick piece of aluminum (I'd say it was at least 40 inches long and about half as wide) and hung it up with 3 screws, so it wouldn't be that hard unless your house is made of drywall entirely

​@@timetravler8719you're expecting quite a bit of proficiency from a medium sized KZfaq channel.. one screw properly is hard enough, not to mention 3 in correct spots

@@timetravler8719 fair enough, i mean many houses have dry wall. But it probably comes down to production costs, so many channels are hitting 1m every year that they would have to spend millions on making play buttons, in a way I kinda feel like they should since these creators helped them make way more than that

@@Maplaplaplapla I mean I don't think that is true, maybe just a skill issue, to be fair I do work precision measurements regularly

Fred was the first to hit 1 million not Pewdiepie

​@@George-li1yvwrong, It's NigaHiga

@@johanliebert9433 Google is one click away bro

@@johanliebert9433Nope, he was the first to reach 2 million and 3 million, but Fred was the first to reach 1 million in April 2009. If you have to try and be a know-it-all, at least do it correctly.

@@pppianissimo ok sry 🤓

It also shows how recent times, in an attempt for fame and recognition, people are willing to throw away all respect. I'm fine with this Waterjet channel's version as they didn't do it on the original but BOUGHT another one.

The play button never had any value to begin with , its rhe physical equivelent of an achievement on a console for doin something for so long and in such a stupid way , its always been worthless shit

@@groundedgamingThe achievement is the subscriber number, the quality of content and the legacy. It's not whether you have a laminated piece of wood on the wall. You Tube cuts revenue or rejects uploads from content creators for the most ridiculous of reasons. There is no longer the prestige in getting one, especially from a platform which has become a strict totalitarian.

@@groundedgaming where did they say this wasn't the original?

Well, these days YT is very much hatred by the audience for several reasons. Smearing massive ads into our faces, fighting a war against adblockers, censoring channels which have the wrong opinion. I have a bookmarking system and I have collected hundreds of YT bookmarks - nearly half of those are not working anymore and the link just says "Account suspended for policy violations" or so. And I didn't bookmark any hateful crap, just good, helpful videos. It's also insane how much of the money donated to YT channels actually goes to YT and not the creators. In the end this is big tech VS. creative content creators. They are so greedy, it also shows in this video, with the plywood.

lol yes!! i fkn hate that BS

Yes! So annoying when people do that, I won't watch the video if it's clickbaited.

The names are for Catching peoples attention to click bait, is Trending names, honestly i just learned about all of that when i started to do youtube on this chanel some weeks ago... Is quite bad that we have to use Tranding titles to be know, i mostly avoid that.

They need those spicy titles to increase the click through rate.

true i appreciate their full title

It's almost like youtube only cares about money or something

It would literally cost KZfaq like 10 dollars to make a solid aluminum cast play button excluding the engraving and mirror part which is honestly another 10 dollars probably.

A rare 1 million subscriber trophy made in very cheap gold-plated construction. How sad is that...

There’s a company that sells thounsads of dollars of some crap they call Mac computers and gullible people buy that +%#~\...

@@LITTLE1994 there are about 40k channels with 1 million subs so not that rare

whats their other channel?

Waterjet Channel Shorts@@BalticBlades

There is an very old version where it is actually gold.

@@travisalt8092 plated with a very thin layer of gold

@@pyzo. the oldest one had a block of gold inside a case

This is why random yokels aren't in charge of the materials of a plaque. Brass is far heavier than wood my guy and far more expensive to produce en mass.

@@bayardkyyako7427 This is why random people on the internet aren't given charge of supply & demand. You do not sell a 5 pound block of wood for $700 when it costs only $80 to make and ship -- and that's being generous.

@@bayardkyyako7427 isn't brass also pretty rare? well rarer than iron at least?

@@user-tzzglsstle585e38 idk but I know how heavy instruments are because of it, also brittle.

​@@user-tzzglsstle585e38Brass is just an alloy of copper and zinc

I think the What’s Inside channel did that years ago. It was like layer of plated metal (probably brass) on the outside and steel inside

Did they give one to Lucas Cruikshank when Fred hit 1 million or did they only start making them after? I wonder what his was made of.

Yea, I hate that shit. Like this is supposed to be a prize or gift for *me* yet all you gave me was marketing bs to turn me into a walking billboard

“Unusable in public as they had the company logo”? What did you work for pornhub or something?

@@enverse244 Not just that but say you're walking down the street wearing an XYZ corp hat and there's a demonstration going on and somebody takes a photo of you in your XYZ corp hat near the demonstration. Or you're wearing your XYZ corp hat while in a bar where somebody gets drunk or perhaps while you're out hunting and somebody takes a photo. The photo gets uploaded innocently to social media then the HR manager calls you in to show you proof of your anti-XYZ social activities and fires you after giving you a mock session where you're supposed to explain yourself. The manager already knows you're fired but goes through the charade anyway. Those company logo "gifts" are just "fire me" hats.

@@KyleHarrisonRedacted Guy worked at a chinese concentration camp.

@@KyleHarrisonRedacted Imagine you're wearing your company hat and somebody takes a photo then uploads it to social media in a totally different context. It could be enough to get you fired. Example - you're at a football match and you try to break up a fight. You're photographed and it looks like you're fighting... Fired!

This main comment feels like half insulting after watching the video lmao.

The $700 cost for a replacement is to deter winners from reselling them

buy your piece of the limited edition golden play button while supply's last🤣🤣

For real

KZfaq just screwed themselves up

What makes you think they have something to hide? It's nothing more than a trinket.

@nikkimcdonald4562 they are hiding plywood. Just to be clear I always assumed it was plywood and my opinion hasn't changed you'll need to ask others why "they screwed themselves" because I don't know what that's about.

Did they ever claim it was something else???

they posted a video not to long about with an interview of them

Best part of the video ngl.

How much was it?

​@@youeffoh808just check their website. 1 billion dollars a piece. But they currently lowered the price to 30 for a limited time, go grab one !

@@youeffoh808Bro paid 30 USD for an inch of wood 💀

@@balkanvenom3586 people have paid a lot more for an extra inch...of wood.

I'll play devils advocate, why make a whole plaque from solid metal... it looks solid and well made, and the visible portions are sheets of aluminum, which allows them to have the proper finish. This perspective only pertains to the plaque itself, it's not a defense for youtube and how it treats its content creators.

The triforce of capitalism

@@wayneswonderariumthe reason a replacement button costs 700 dollars isn’t because KZfaq is trying to earn money from selling play buttons, it’s a deterrent for people who earn the award from reselling them.

Ironically enough the one who lacks the wisdom is you

Interesting! So are they completely factory-made or are there craftsmen involved? Is there a room full of super bowl trophies for the next 50 years?

@@CainXVII not technically, from what I was told every year trophies are slightly different though the KZfaq ones are mass produced on a small scale.

Mostly factory made other than the initial design.

Tell your wife's uncle to send Rick a hi from Jack Sucks At Life. I'm sure he'll love to hear it.

They made a recent video on this

@@bmxboi72 where??

@@bmxboi72 oh do you mean the one about what happened to the channel? Yeah I saw it but they never say what Dan and Mitch are working on these days

It's not as cheap as it looks. The part in the center is real 24 karat gold. A few grams of that is actually worth a couple hundred dollars. Not quite 700, but not the complete scam it seems like.

The value of gold in gold plating is negligible

Wait, you have to pay for it?

@@pepperypeppers2755 Sources: I made it the f*ck up

@@-8h- No. In the video they explained that you are given the original one. If you want additional copies, that's when they start to charge you.

yeah, the billions they earn every year and they cant afford to actually make a damn proper decorative piece thats at the very least decent. looking at the material i can make a rough estimate that it cost them about $80 at the very most to make and thats counting labor cost and shipping because lets be honest we all know youtube is using child slave labor in china to make those. there is no excuse for such shitty construction.

I get it, but lets say they would use iron, it's only nearly 1.50$ per kilogram, so even if for example they would need 20kg to make a button its only a mere 30$ and nowhere near 700$ they charge for a second one (thats plywood mostly too lol) and aluminum like they use for the actual triangle in the play button is also only around 2.50

@@starberry847 It's more about the cumulative cost. While it's true that small amounts of iron and aluminum are indeed cheap. Those prices still add up, as they send out these play buttons and displays to any YT channel that hits certain milestones. This can easily get into the thousands of dollars, and let's not forget the weight factor as well. Iron is dense and heavy, then there's the cost of processing the metal as well in order to make the button, display and everything. It's far more economical to make a shell for the display, rather than making it entirely out of metal. So the cost of the display and buttons is a combination of material costs, processing, assembly, and labor. YT also has to commission these displays and buttons from companies and/or shops that specialize in such things, so their also paying those companies/shops for their services too, so it's also a means of cost reduction in order to keep the displays and buttons from being a detriment rather than a positive.

Aluminum is cheaper than decent wood almost always. Be it in small or industrial amounts

Dam u dum 😂

😂 lol. i remember when creators did give aways to get subs and definitely giveaways at a 100k and a million subs!!i understand what they are doing. but subs got them the play button so to charge subs for one is kinda umm 😢pieces could be tossed in for merchandise would be more appropriate but really random subs that got you to a mil should be picked. because at a million subs we know channels are making money even with the guys that destroy expensive cars for fun. i do love the channel though just wish i got more notifications from it lol

@@carculturenation2166 So it's okay to scam people because other people do it, and/or because they make good money? What foolish logic, the world would be a terrible place if everyone justified their actions like that.

Well, while scummy, it's not really a scam, since you receive it for free after reaching a milestone. You are essentially just receiving a gift that looks more valuable than it actually is

@@acyrosriven at 1m subs you couldn't care less if it was real or fake

@@acyrosriven How is it scummy? It's free. They could just give you nothing and let you continue making money off of your 1mil subscribers.

I doubt it actually costs anywhere near $700. It's likely that expensive to prevent people buying them who don't actually need them.

Hell, even just a nice solid wood works have been nicer, but medium density fibreboard? That's cheap deal material 😂

Why tf would anyone give a shit about something so stupid? 😂 Do you not have real problems in your own life to worry about?

The metal surrounding the wood was suprisingly thick relative to my expectations. And the lick test saying it was good wood also surprised me. Seems like very high-quality, even if not full metal.

The deterrent is a good point

honestly if i burnt 700 on a piece of wood i'd be try to re-make some of that money too

It is free

It is bro, look it up or watch the video before throwing bullshit around. Have a shred of responsibility.

You’d have a mess. Not much mystery.

​@@vickielawson3114Kind of get what they mean. Wonder if the paint is flame resistant or something.

Made by youtube probably just shipped via Hollywood mail offices 😅😅😅😂😂

That's a pretty moronic reason to feel bad. You must be crazy privileged to even give a shit about that whatsoever. Considering the amount of play buttons they have to ship out these days , it would be pretty dumb to expect them to make them out of expensive materials.

They're called PE film jewelry cases! I've been looking for them too.

@@jessicabell6867 thank you so much! I showed my wife and she wants them too (super cheap on AliExpress haha)

Probably lots of people

Ah yes the stuff you make sewage pipes from, the most premium of materials. Honestly this is better than PVC board.

I think you can blame content farms for it if it feels cheap, they made so many 1M+ channels and instead of cracking down, youtube decided to keep their income boosted but not give out more quality plaques.

Glad they don't make these sharp cornered plaques out of metal then.

@@bayardkyyako7427 yea sadly i wished at least the play button in the middle would be at least a good amount of gold even a low quality one would be great, but nope its aluminum (probably gold plated? but still 90% aluminum) they could actually make it out of harder material just make the corners a bit rounded or have an angled cut on it to reduce the sharpness

@@ozoahameg3582 any amount of gold is probably too much after the plating (if that even requires gold Idr) but either way it's made to look nice and with content farms

They could made it gold but mostly hollow instead to prevent it from being to heavy to hang on a wall but they were to cheap to do even that.

@@jetsetradio7715 What did you expect from a greedy entity whose users became so attached to it they can´t live/work without it anymore? Of course they're taking that route. It all comes to minimising expenses and maximising profit. How cynical it may sound, that's the harsh truth of any big company (correct me if I am wrong though).

Yeah that’s kind of what we were thinking

A piece of MDF with a couple bits glued and screwed costs almost nothing. The price of machining ally would definitely top it.

tbf solid aluminium is gonna be way heavier than wood, and hanging that might be much harder

@@BlackWACat not really there is a big 1 inch thick aluminum flag at my work held by 3 screws

@@timetravler8719what are the screws made of?

🙏

Hahaha! You're pretty good at reading people!😆

No, but it also doesn't say anywhere that it's fkn wood

Don't be insulting, man. Of course nobody expected it to be actual gold. I'm betting most people thought it was aluminum.

no one expected it to be made of gold, but everyone expected it to be at least made of some sort of metal

how much money do you think they make off of a person with a million subs? Probably more than a gold play button would cost, certainly more than an aluminum or brass play button would cost. They're just being cheap and downgrading the KZfaq experience as per usual. The previous huge life changing milestone of 1M subs becomes a footnote and not even worth keeping.

I really doubt that after accounting for costs, with the garbage ad rates of post financial crisis, they are making a huge amount of money on a random channel with a million subs. Not to mention bots, adblock, viewers from geolocations with bad ad rates. (People rarely talk about it, but a US viewer is way more valuable than one from India for example, financially speaking.)@@UnknownGamer40464

they give you one for the first milestone after that you pay

It’s a trophy. Most trophies are made from cheap stuff too.

You realize if it was made of only gold it would be worth billions of dollars

jesus that’s a lot of channels

KZfaq is making thousands of these. They're not handmade original objects.

Solid gold? Seriously? Just one pound of it is over $22k and we're not even including manufacturing costs to make the actual button. You must be genuinely thick in the head to think they should make these out of solid gold. There's over 30k people with gold buttons, so think about how ridiculously expensive it would be to send everyone a solid gold play button.