Asmongold Reacts to 'How Primitive Building Videos Are Staged' | by SunnyV2

[@Ostsol]

There's a video about a castle that's under construction in France using medieval technology. It's called Guédelon Castle. The project was started twenty-five years ago and is still going. It's well worth watching.

[@bentoomet8805]

Holy shit when I went to France I visited that Castle. It was an actual tourist attraction. The people who are working on it dedicate their free time and some even their jobs to build it. I went in 2015, they said it’s expected to take about 30 more years if they can recruit 5 more part-time workers. That would be if they could replace the workers that get older and can’t work anymore. Would 10/10 recommend,I’m not sure if they still do it, but the actual workers ran it to raise money and show you exactly how they’re building it.

[@masonmcconnell9375]

asmongold watched a video about that and reacted i think

[@Blazuchan]

Yes indeed. Asmon and McConnell watched it and expressing genuine interest of it.

[@pottyputter05]

Yes I love this one

[@Dbswrath]

I've seen a documentary on this in 2012 they said it would be done in 2025 lmao

[@Youssless]

I'm EXTREMELY disappointed in the US educational system. Not one of my history teachers discussed the 1500 B.C. Waterpark system that primitive man created.

[@DevilSaturn966]

You're actually the problem

[@RTFManuel]

@@DevilSaturn966 please elaborate

[@dixiemaiztergogo5520]

they are under the pyramids

[@gamingmoyai3950]

@@DevilSaturn966 no really, elaborate.

[@thepcfd]

@@gamingmoyai3950 probalby roman aquaducts.

[@xDOLPHINTV]

I think what bothers me is that the OG primitive technology just wanted to demonstrate how shit was made back then and he gets overshadowed by these outrageous and obviously fake builds, and it ends up delegitimizing the actual builds

[@supergobgoblin424]

Is because they are funded by goverment to obscure people from the knowledge to keep people dependant

[@supergobgoblin424]

Taxes are theft...m to the b the IRS

[@Cwyan-wv1hj]

@@supergobgoblin424 ...sir please remove the tinfoil hat.

[@DustySquitoNM]

That dude is fucking amazing. Same caption system, same amazing cargo shorts, and he’s about to enter the fucking Iron Age.

[@The-Singularity-X01]

Thing is, he's one dude doing all of this. During the era where that stuff was' cutting edge' you had groups of people of around 20-50 or so working together for just about everything.

[@dustinryckman5118]

Perfect example is someone building an entire town in Minecraft on CREATIVE MODE, but then passing it along like it was made in SURVIVAL MODE

[@dollface2907]

the community built cities online to download are amazing, with minecraft ive notice for big projects the world edit is alright on some and not others though

[@yummychips_]

Thats why the OGs who keep doing lets play of their decade old world, are so respected. Unfortunately, with how MC content is so fast and modded now, its really hard to compete for lets plays. Fakers who flex they built X thing, while playing in survival doesn't even mean much anymore. Most would just say they are faking or wasted their time.

[@rebekahvasquez1464]

@@yummychips_ Shit, one of my faves gets crap about his builds being fake, but he streams every second of the builds on twitch.

[@killerclone2177]

its possible.. will take a huge ass time but its possible

[@_eeveeon_]

God I've built a little village which was basically just a Village I found, that I've upgraded and terraformed and of course my house and that alone took FOREVER in Survival... some survival builds are absolutely insane but sadly alot are fake albeit still impressive

[@Gamepainter]

When Asmon tells you not to litter you've fucked up

[@mr.cantillasz1912]

💀💀

[@anthonysmith6413]

Without having seen the Video yet. What gave it away for me was as a former soldier I know how exhausting digging a small hole in the forest is. Digging a giant pit is not only a month long endeavour it's also so damn exhausting that the likelyhood to get injured will get significant. So you would need several months to dig such holes without risiking destroying your body. But no one can tell me a good rainstorm won't destroy this hypothetical several months long Project in a blink of an eye. So they must've found a way to shorten the time frame significantly to not have that happen. But this is like I said not possible without destroying your Body in the process.

[@wiseferret4745]

I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole. Diggy diggy hole. Digging a hole.

[@chartreux1532]

+Anthony Smith Exactly. I served 6 Years with the 231. Gebirgsjägerbattalion of the 23. Gebirgsjägerbrigade of the Bundeswehr (Now just help training as Reservist) and while we are specialized on Mountain Warfare, this also includes a lot of Forest Warfare and digging a lot in all kinds of Temperatures and Terrain. So even the most optimal kind of Soil to dig would be insane with the "Tools" you see in these Videos. Prost & Cheers from the Bavarian Alps

[@anthonysmith6413]

@@chartreux1532 Horrido Kamerad

[@chartreux1532]

@@anthonysmith6413 Dir auch Horrido Kamerad!

[@nef36]

Bro why are words randomly capitalized

[@DouglasVairon]

As someone who has dug fighting holes with government shovels that kept breaking, rocks and roots are a huge factor. Nothing is worse than having to dig a six foot deep hole in hard clay mixed with rocks and roots.

[@christophercampa6777]

Amen to that. Some of the hardest work I've done was digging pits for pools and digging trenches for pipes.

[@ODDnanref]

Why dog six foot deep holes? What was the job?

[@totalfreedom2408]

If you actually want to dig a big hole in those conditions I can't tell you how useful a pickaxe is

[@DouglasVairon]

@@ODDnanref Fighting holes for defensive positions. You dig down so that you can stand in the hole "Comfortably" while providing yourself and your buddy enough cover. Ideally it will protect you from IDF, tanks can even drive over your hole without it caving in. Digging these holes suck ass.

[@ODDnanref]

@@DouglasVairon Ohhh Makes sense. I asked as my mind went to a more six feet under grim reference.

[@note4note804]

The biggest issue for me was never the digging, it was moving the material. Even with the exhausting effort of doing something like a drainage ditch with hand tools, the problem isn't that you're digging up the soil, it's that without a wheelbarrow you're having to physically carry that weight off site with hundreds of trips.

[@reves3333]

is basicly the same as having a fake work out video.

[@FormerGovernmentHuman]

The excavation and firemaking are the biggest giveaways. Starting a fire from nothing always starts small, a spark into a fine layer of kindling, blowing the flame to life and wrapping it in more kindling, then very small sticks and twigs, and slowly build up. Even with cabelas flint or fire starters you can’t start a fire pit like that without lighter fluid. No airflow and a huge stack of wood doesn’t just catch fire like that.

[@Warthred]

12:37 I'm glad that this was mentioned because I've only ever heard my dad talk about it. The soil is extremely different. That's how the vast endless tunnel systems were created in the Vietnam war.

[@yutheasum4704]

As a Cambodian who watches Asmongold very regularly, I really appreciate that these so-called "primitive" content creators get called out. Honestly, they are cancerous to the overall contents that we watch online. On KZbin, it is THAT bad. On Facebook, it is x100 times worse. Unfortunately, the bad guys happen to have beaten the algorithms.

[@trielt1]

The algorithms were built FOR the bad guys.

[@christophercampa6777]

Yes. It would be a good content if they actually built this stuff instead of cheating.

[@DeathnoteBB]

They didn’t “beat” the algorithm. This is what the algorithm promotes already.

[@AC3handle]

Facebook: where truth goes to die.

[@user-ix7es4iw8b]

As a cambodian, I don't judge the copy cats because our people are struggling over there. If they found a way to feed their families then more power to them.

[@forensic_bones185]

the best primitive "concrete" is clay. clay mixed with water and sticks and that is then dried ( like really dried/baked) makes a pretty good bind. this is how Pueblos were made.

[@SoulTouchMusic93]

Clay, water and hay. That's how my grandparent's house was built. We refurbed it and couldn't drive a nail in that shit for the life of me.

[@eredaane4656]

problem with that can be that it is very much dependant on dry climate to keep it standing, in wet climate, clay+straw/sticks+water needs repair after every rainseason and is not water proof (or moisture proof)

[@SoulTouchMusic93]

@@eredaane4656 you don't just leave it as is, you whitewash it!

[@Beedso]

Primitive technology is legit, my professor even used his videos to cite methods that ancient civilizations used for development

[@DeathnoteBB]

Yeah they say that within the first minute

[@jsonkody]

Who say it's not? What is the purpose of your comment?

[@Beedso]

@@one_eyeddd473 yes because a college professor at a private university would use illegitimate videos for lectures in anthropology all the time…imagine being a contrarian

[@Beedso]

@@jsonkody it’s a comment, the purpose of a comment is self explanatory: to comment🤭

[@Beedso]

@@DeathnoteBB never said they didn’t, just using a personal anecdote that’s all

[@l1z4rdon7]

Especially with these builds being in a “jungle” tree roots are a massive problem. Tree roots are incredibly strong. There was a tree root dislocating a sprinkler in front of my parents house. Me and my grandma went to cut the root out with a small hand saw to get access to the sprinkler. The section of root was about the size of your hand and it took 2 hours to try and get it out. We had my grandpa come with a small buzz saw to cut it out eventually lol. Gotta think about grass roots too. Digging those out are a pain sometimes.

[@bigmacdoubleyouv]

I built forts as a kid too. Thinking about how that seems to be naturally ingrained into our DNA as a kid without any outside input is pretty interesting, how a blind freshly born puppy immediately seeks out its mother or something.

[@xenn4985]

Better comparison would be beavers having an instinctual urge to block water

[@Quadrenaro]

We yearn for the mines. Therefore, we dug.

[@wolfetteplays8894]

Ancestral DNA

[@Schlohmotion]

Every group that lived in a continent that is subject to seasonal changes just diedout, if they didn't built constructions.

[@WritingNomad-PL]

The human instinct to make civilization, it is actualy pretty interesting.

[@shok24199]

Primitive Technology is so good because every build feels like something anyone could copy with enough time and the right environment.

[@Frostshokula]

16:00 Primitive refers to an early stage of technological development, not just because it is old. It also implies it is simple. If we gave ants a spaceship, it would not be primitive ant tech 10,000 years from now, assuming ants don’t evolve like crazy lol. It would be advanced human tech that just happen to be near ants.

[@pencilbender]

Wat

[@muhammadaminrais23]

Yeah primitif doesnt mean old or ancient. Like in sentinel island are inhabitated by primitif people and still using primitif technology.

[@Blasted2Oblivion]

Are you trying to give ants ideas? The last thing we need is to deal with ants with space age tech rising up against us. Do you have ANY idea how outnumbered we are?

[@kuhnandreas5694]

Well everyone who had to actually dig a hole by themselves would know that these videos are staged. It's way harder than it looks and it takes much longer than you might think. The ground becomes much harder a few feed into the earth, often with roots and stones that make it way harder. Also the earth is much more condensed, so there will be a lot of rubble to move away. That's why there's always a small hill when you shovel the stuff back in to close the hole. The amount of digging in these videos with just hand tools and with 2 guys would takes months.

[@Rhodair]

yeah so many seem to just envision nothing but dirt all the way down, but you're very quickly dealing with all sorts of other crap

[@orkaydk9430]

@@minecraftminer59mineboymin38 I care lmao

[@jackode7923]

@@andrew-rn9uiGoogle dragging and buoyancy. Oh and with buoyancy since you are smart just plug in the mass of what you want to float and what else and see how how you would float it. Oh and for how they dragged them up search up pyramid dragging model or scaffolding and see a recreation. Just do your own research. Hell, use your own bathtub to test the physics. Drag a weighed object across the floor, see if the formulas work. TLDR: Test things, confirm for yourself.

[@hunterkinsella5303]

​@@andrew-rn9uiSo you do believe that the pyramids were made using technology of the time, right? Cause that is correct.

[@ClaytonNigsby]

@@hunterkinsella5303the Pyramids aren’t actually real. They are just holograms.

[@DeathnoteBB]

8:47 In my opinion them hiring an architect is one of the least surprising things. Even if it was legit, building a big structure you kind of _need_ an architect to make sure the building is stable. Also, I might be wrong, but I think an architect can just be the person on your build team who knows enough to make sure the building is structurally sound. Doesn’t mean an official, clipboard-holding person. The Primitive Technology would be their own architect, for instance.

[@ZeallustImmortal]

Youre thinking of an engineer

[@David-n8d2r]

And architect is a glorified home decorator

[@victoriazero8869]

The OG Primitive Technology man wouldn't be out of place in my village 20 years ago. That's why he's so believable. Most of his technique, we SEA villagers still damn use right this second. We just made it more efficient and mass producible.

[@murphychurch8251]

Another clue is the lack of soil mounds/ excavated earth. Where did it go? It's not just a tiny bit of scattered soil when you dig a hole that deep. As the soil is a lot less dense after excavating, it has a much bigger volume. Suppose you're down in the pit, digging. How do you remove the soil? With your bare hands? You can only throw it just outside the pit, to the side. After a while though, it will pile up and roll back down into the pit. With buckets? That's better, but you have to bring it a lot further away altogether because the mound will be huge. As an archaeologist, I'm used to the planning of where to put the excavated soil but I'm still sometimes surprised at how much soil you get even from a small hole in the ground (not even talking about rocks and roots here).

[@shadowdragon8168]

I don't think the Cyprien video was fake. He shows himself using tools and stuff to build the hut, and that hut is a lot less extravagant then the other builds.

[@ominith1]

and you can tell by how often they upload videos

[@wood5241]

Its probably just a mistake by Sunny. His builds are also not that massive compared to the fakes

[@urbanfrog8466]

I agree

[@Ecliptor.]

It was quite funny hearing his assumptions after having watched the video by myself before him, it was much much worse than he thought. I agree with him in that they would still be famous even if they they showed the machinery and were honest about it. Because the buildings are cool enough.

[@nawawii3750]

Yeah, if it were 100% machinery, it's still interesting place to spend a summer day and night inside... When I first ever saw one of these, I thought they were like poor people from this part in Asia, that have the knowledge of their environments, so they dig these and rent to tourists to make money. So it made sense as in, if they dig 8 hours a day, they still making money from this, so it's like they invented a job for themselves. And that they could sustain it at least for few months, so they would really earn something worth all the effort. If they were shown as a small company making these small projects and renting them as well, it would still be impressive place to visit.. The only thing you would miss is the ASMR effect you get from watching the silent guys and all sounds if nature around them, while they work tirelessly to make it ( which contribute to overall views)

[@Persiandre]

The problem isn't that. Is that they abandon those buildings (made in concrete) in the middle of the nowhere

[@rayvg7709]

Then dont be shocked by what I'm about to tell you. A lot of those "animal rescue" videos are also faked. The same animals show up again and again in different videos.

[@Ecliptor.]

@@rayvg7709 Yeah I knew that, unfortunately

[@PineappleBaconPizza]

@@Persiandre the drone footage of how nasty these places look when they are abandoned is just sad. The buildings are all collapsed and they never fill the "pools" with dirt and they leave garbage everywhere. These people are trash

[@Sp.Be.W]

“Ta outdoors” is another great one for anyone looking for something to fill the void. The guy bought a woodland in the UK to build in. In some builds he uses modern materials, and uses tents and stuff but it’s so good and educational as hell.

[@jonssonnicolas]

He built a whole viking long house. Awesome work

[@Derploop]

19:37 I mean, this is actually realistic. Generally when you sink a pole for say, a letter box, you just repack the dirt around it and tamp it down with something heavy, even another pole works if it's sufficiently flat and heavy. The depth you're sinking it matters more with regards to keeping it upright in that situaiton. You don't need to concrete something as light as bamboo; you just need something that will set fairly solid around the several feet of sunk pole.

[@NarutoMagicCyclops]

I don't think the realism is in question in particular. It's more the problem the people are claiming it's cement when it's nothing more than water and dirt mixed together, that's the only fake part about it.

[@siruno6024]

You should really the final product to see if some rocks can actually hold that.

[@slogary4790]

23:10 it's actually a big deal to dig the dirt in this kind of soil, as you said earlier in the video, in Austin, Texas, you get rocks almost immediately as you dig, in thiese kind of tropical soil, you have something like 10 metres/yards (kinda the same length) of dirt with absolutely nothing to stop it from flowing with the next rain. so digging and removing the very thin layer of humus (fertile dirt that allows plants to grow) on such an area is asking for a landslide to occur next rainy season...

[@SD78]

With regard to rocks, it's a moist clay soil in a warm climate. I work in construction in Auckland, which is mostly clay. It's very rare to hit rocks unless you're near a mountainside or alluvial riverbed.

[@nawawii3750]

Yeah, I thought the same, the soil is 100% legit, and they can actually dig and have clean cuts with primitive tools in it. And considering how they are digging, finding ricks will actually make their process faster, they would just dig around and then pull and throw away! But they lie about everything else, the mist obvious thing is the time, and number of people

[@chlorophyll6154]

It's not like that in southern asia, mostly full of rock because a lot of places was a hill and river hundred of years ago

[@-The-Golden-God-]

Tell that to the clay soil in my garden that's full of rocks. I found out the hard way when I had to dig a hole.

[@littleboss2006]

Yeah how about the roots? They dig pretty close to tree all the time. That still a lot of works. I personally dig hole a lot near tree, my gid it's a nuisance

[@abcdc197]

Just show the video to any Vietnam Vet and ask them what they think about it...

[@liamspruyt]

i know american don't particularly like the french but if you go to france there's a castle made entirely with primitive tools around that era. its awesome! i went there multiple times! (besides the lifts for highering stuff being reinforced for safety purpose) but they have iron workers making tools actually getting the stones out of the ground and carving them out! making clothes and the likes! its absolutely dope

[@GoodHunter9]

Many Americans love France. People like me haven't forgotten what they did for us in the early stages of our country. Also, they have a hell of a small arms industry.

[@liamspruyt]

well they and the dutch seem the most american. @@GoodHunter9

[@wolfetteplays8894]

Bruh, americans have been bedfellows with the french for a long ass time, the french was one of the main countries that helped us gain independence.

[@liamspruyt]

i only ever hear americans complain about them. if not the british the french. @@wolfetteplays8894

[@en4833]

@@liamspruyt Most of that is just jokes. Most Americans don't actually dislike the french.

[@darrens3]

18:00 you can actually make legit primitive concrete using ground wood ash and water. It would've made more sense for them to show that as it's so easy to make. They used it to sometimes set primitive axe heads to handles before binding to ensure more contact to keep the two elements well gripped together when bound.

[@spoot8835]

it's just like when pimp my ride from 2004-2007 it came out later that usually everything was only cosmetic, on occasions they'd even get a completely different nearly identical car to "actually" work on.

[@markvogel5872]

Oh no! Morning ruined....I can't believe that was fake!

[@Kptn_kabaakal]

5:21 Primitive Skills is legit btw. ive been following his every video since start and there are only 2 things he "cheated" : 1st was him buying raw iron ore because, while he has iron deposits around his area, it took him way too much time and effort to gather any useful amount. so he first gathered and smelted iron ore legit once then bought some raw ore for his future videos. 2nd was him buying cement, but again only after showing how to make it from limestone. if he tried to do those things legit, he wouldnt have time to make any videos, he would be a miner. but rest of what he does is inarguably legit since his videos are hours long and he pretty much shows the entire process.

[@xavierescano4559]

which was the buying raw iron ore one? his latest cause i thought the 80 grams of iron came from the 2 buckets of iron bacteria he processed?

[@rustyhowe3907]

Yup he's the only other channel I don't mind at all simply because he shows the process behind it at least.

[@Kptn_kabaakal]

@@xavierescano4559 talking about primitive "skills" not primitive "technology"

[@raggo1955]

Once I found out this elaborate work is not done by the two guys alone my peak interest ended and I never watched it again. I’m sure it took skills and careful planning for them but I’m not going to be fooled twice. That’s about it. Peace

[@4RestJay]

Yeah Primitive skills a real mothafucka. Rice farming and raising fish.

[@greedier-7661]

I immediately thought about the roots when i saw videos like that because i remember working in my family backyard and trying to remove one bush. It took over 30 minutes of ax chopping, shovel digging and using shovel as a lever to remove one giant bush, not even mentioning the stones that were also hidden there. I also had to once dig 1/2 feet deep area when we wanted to make pathway/ parking space for the car it took 2-4 hours as you could hardly find good place to use shovel as there was tons of roots from trees and stones (it was 5m x10m area) Also i believe that if those videos threw away this whole primitive tech and were just simply fun builds in the forest and kept on upgrading one place by adding more and more thing they would be much more enjoyable and would draw in more subscribers. Now they just repeat hole, with water + torches and small room. sometimes adding slide or other small things.

[@nawawii3750]

Imagine if you could visit a well maintained place like this, and could spend a day or a night there! People would pay to rent it, more fun than camping, if they can guarantee your safety

[@greedier-7661]

@@nawawii3750 and imagine that such things already exists as Minecraft let's play, where people sell their worlds, create servers out of them, or simply let other download it.

[@PineappleBaconPizza]

It took me like 2 hours to dig out a 5 foot tree with a shovel and replant it somewhere else. Ain't no way they're doing this shit with sticks

[@disgustof-riley]

Get a pick axe

[@deanm375]

I never gave it much thought but part of me always suspected there was something fake about these videos. Especially the ones that have a teenage gril building all this crap by herself.

[@mariyears]

teenage gril 🤭

[@Muhammad_Nuruddin]

*Teenage gril and teenage buoy*

[@gaminggladiator06]

I always knew it was BS when they did stuff like “we built a pool” or “building a 2 story house.” What people like this tend to forget is the realm of reality where you have to remember that all this is supposed to be done with sticks and sharpened rocks. Just looking at the thumbnails is enough to call them on their bull.

[@nathanburgett1599]

I like them too. The ones I watch aren't fake. They are time-lapsed. It shows them building it by hand.

[@KingMondoWWM]

*I would LOVE to see an OTK survival series* -- I agree, that's an amazing idea. Of course, there'd likely have to be a lot of preparation and maybe some reasonable amount of behind the scenes support to make sure everyone's safe (e.g. the way it is in Survivor). But I think even so, if they're interested in doing that, it would be really fun an entertaining to watch. Maybe it could be filmed like the Shareholders meetings, I think that would be perfect. And with Asmongold leading the members of OTK and helping them survive with limited supplies in the wilderness, this would be golden content.

[@r3zaful]

He wouldn't even survive in my dad mountainous village lmao, nobody can handle mosquitos my dude. If an real survival show happens in any jungle in South East Asia he will die from dengue fever or malaria sooner or later.

[@jgon12]

Otk survival won't happen most of the members are not that healthy and probably will die they could not even play sports when they did the sports event. It could probably work if it not intense and in a control environment but even that it will not be a real survival more like going to the park 😂

[@chardonnay5767]

As long as they focus on all of the ways they fail in keeping it real

[@jonasduell9953]

I wanna see OTK on a moonshining tour building their own still, fermenting whatever and going blind on their own moonshine!

[@forbiddensilhouette5824]

John's a nice guy that loves the bush. He can operate an excavator and I even saw him open two beers with both eye sockets.

[@MrSabioDice]

Bruh.. I’m so in love with this generations ability to catch people in 4K nowadays… It’s just a matter if you want to believe it or not. - we still need work but it ain’t all bad - shout out to the drone dude. 😂

[@marcusbullock630]

the pyramids of giza were constructed with geopolymer and it's been known for quite some time. nobody rolled giant blocks. slaves carried the supplies like river clay, river water and silt etc, and they mixed and poured each cube exactly where it is with a mold. after a section of one of the pyramid's blocks were cut into, they found tiny microbubbles- the same kind you see when you use quikrete.

[@Derploop]

I feel bad for that Cyprien dude catching strays when the stuff he builds is completely legit and not even trying to act like it's primitive tools. Literally shows portable shovel, assemblable mattock, fold out saw and knife, etc.

[@csguy3223]

I did wilderness survival training in Boy Scouts as a kid and it was pretty fun. Most of us didn’t sleep on the wilderness overnights. I built a decent sized little hut to sleep in with a moss and leaf bed, but most people literally just pulled up a branch and slept on the dirt. You would really have to invest time into making a shelter that would be warm to stay in or you would not last, even during spring or fall, or a really cold week during the summer. It got down to like 45 i think the night we did it and it was early fall. We were all so cold that we just made a fire together and chilled in a clearing telling ghost stories. So fun.

[@saurlex1368]

I can't believe there were people that actually thought 2 guys were just building these crazy houses and pools in the jungle with sticks. Maybe i'm just more skeptical than most but I always assume everything I see online is faked to an extent. I still watch the videos, it's amusing to me that people would stop watching these videos after this 'exposure'.

[@apalsnerg]

I thought they were real, only that they were week- or sometimes monthlong projects that they just cut together. As in, they go out for hours every day, film some when they've made progress, then turn the camera off for a good while.

[@bitharne]

You, 100%, are more skeptical than most…people are kinda derpy as a general average/rule.

[@xavierescano4559]

to some people it matters, i loved the original one because it amazed me to know what one man can do with nothing but his hands.

[@MrVvulf]

People still watch Bear "sleeps in hotel" Grylls. Just another example of a fraud following in the footsteps of a more authentic original - Les Stroud.

[@chanmandeath2993]

I'm ngl, as someone who didn't jump on the "Primitive tech" train because it featured zero youtubers that hold my interest, and was blatantly faked based off of title alone, I feel far, far less wronged than people who actually believed this stuff. Like, I am genuinely curious as to how Asmon is getting so mad about this, given I just kinda went "Yeah, figured as much" when the debunk video came out.

[@Zerinith]

This is how it is for everything someone has an good idea then its copied into oblivion

[@blacklight683]

I love how this is so complete that there is simply no way of arguing or denying it so the video just became "yea lets just joke about this obvious shit"

[@Jackie89000]

Those bamboo poles have such perfect cuts because they are industrially cut to a specific length and sanded to a smooth, flat end. That's how they look so cleanly cutm

[@Watamel0n]

I always thought the terrain and soil was very loose compared to my homecountry, because it would be literally impossible to dig out such holes with a couple of sticks here. I had to dig out a lot of foxholes during my military service and it was always an insane amount of labourus work, with modern tools.

[@Shteven]

Ik this comment is old but I just had a random thought. Do soliders have to worry about loose rocks when digging fighting holes as they could become additional projectiles in a blast?

[@SuperKinahead]

Yeah concrete is sand/stone, and a chemical composition of cement. The cement mix is the binding agent that when mixed with water, heats up and hardens over time. This is why you see cement being turned in a mixing truck, because the heat coming from the chemical reaction is being spread as it mixes, slowing the process down (also to make sure the cement is properly mixed).

[@helmholtzthemulewatson4763]

Generally concrete is cement with stone or filler added. A Concrete truck is simple spinning to get a smooth and workable consistency with additional water being added if necessary. Heat isnt really a factor with conventional cement.

[@SuperKinahead]

@Helmholtz the Mule Watson yeah ok just repeat what i literally just said. Heat is a factor because it dictates how fast your cement will harden, and the chemical reaction when mixed with water naturally generates heat. Because the heat evaporates the water, and as the water evaporates the cement hardens to concrete. Which is one of the main reasons why cement trucks turn up on site mixing the cement. All the ratio/mixing is done before they even leave the yard. They just appear dump the cement into the pump and leave.

[@christophercampa6777]

Nice. Thanks for sharing bro I didn't know this at all. Gob bless

[@michaelsouthern2398]

CONCRETE : a mixture typically containing Rocks or Sand, Cement, and then water is added and all is mixed. Depending on amount of base powders and amount of water in mixture will directly affect the time which the mixture will solidify into CONCRETE in the shape/form of which is was molded (hopefully already 🤦‍♂️😂) such as curb,walk way, divider wall, ramp and of course more…. I also worked for a Concrete Company for many years 🤙🫡

[@jesusjesus272]

25:58: Tell me you don't hear shaggy for a sec there.

[@Utbaut]

Here in Germany a streamer named Fritz Meinike did set up a survival contest called "Seven vs Wild". 7 guys, for 7 days with 7 items alone in the Woods of sweden. Was pretty succsesful here but i don't know if they ever cared to make subtitles.

[@xtremefurrycat]

I didn't buy the whole two guys putting together these things, because it took myself, my mom, and two other friends a whole day to put a small metal shed together in the back yard.

[@reasonablecontrarian2420]

And that was probably packaged ready to build as well, I’m assuming. I guess I understand why they lie, like the primitive tech guy got a lot of attention and they wanted to capitalize but it’s still really impressive to say, “hey so me and some friends who know how to operate heavy machinery made this shit in like a few months”

[@OrbObserver]

These channels kinda cheapen the value of the real physical labor it takes to build anything. Real labor is difficult, exhausting, slow, and very rough on the body.

[@reasonablecontrarian2420]

@@OrbObserver I agree but not if the sentiment is that because they used heavy machinery and architects it isn’t truly hard labor, they do cheapen it by pretending that isn’t what they’re doing, pretending to make concrete out of water and dirt. The actual process of building what they built I bet is far more interesting than the lies they tried to sell off for how they built it

[@bc9554]

When the isekai manga weebs find out they cant actually build an imperial palace full of catgirls by hand

[@BigMeechEJ25]

18:11 "Concrete doesn't grow in a river" Lmao I'm dying, it doesn't grow at all!

[@ryanorionwotanson4568]

LMAO 😂, I cracked up too, and the Santa part 🤣

[@Unknowngnostic]

I install namboo floors sometimes. It does have the strands that can fray, but you can get a clean cut with a blade with more teeth. Its a lot jarder and you need certain guns made for harder wood. Now the raw bamboo like in the videos, it frays much easier than the manufactured flooring product. But you can still get a clean cut if you use finish blades

[@Third_eyee]

this makes me love the OG primitive technology even more

[@misterexclusive8282]

This ultimately just gives me more respect for the first Prim-Tech guy. He is doing something so [ironically] revolutionary that people are faking following in his footsteps trying to recreate what he's doing. The dude tapped into such an instinctual side of humanity that the whole world watched and many wanted to try their own hand (inevitably turning to falsehood because of just how difficult it truly is).

[@barneymiller7894]

I really love how all of us totally believed these videos, until they got exposed. And we all thought to ourselves "Oh, im fuckin stupid."

[@jeffmaniak2148]

"That's right ... another fcking rock" that one killed me XD

[@SwampTTV]

Lmao "gravity wasnt invented then, they just pet em there" im dying roflmao

[@UncannySense]

Clear crystal blue water in a mud hole...yeah totally not staged.

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Imagine a millennia into the future, humans found these abandoned sites and thought it was evidence of a civilisation…

[@CycloneFox]

After I saw one of these videos for the first time, of someone digging a whole to create an awesome looking pool area with his hands, I couldn't help myself to not get a calculator and do the maths myself. It looked just so ridiculous that someone would grab a bunch of sand and throw it up over his shoulder for potentially hours until he dug like 5 tons of sand like that. Even if they have super clean sand with no roots or other stone layers over there. And so I did the math and out came that (for that particular video I watched with my own assumptions) that he had to dig like that for days without pause, without getting slower, etc.

[@Neutral_1zed]

1:00 At least from my understanding, stick and hands shouldn’t be able to dig past the organic materials. You’re stuck once you go past the topsoil. I don’t know if I used the correct terms, but at some point, the dirt will have condensed and harden and here is where steel and machineries are required. There is no way they could dig that deep into the ground with stick and hands. Or Canadian soils are just different idk.

[@Pharaphel]

Have you ever tried using a shovel to dig something? They use sticks. I'm sure these videos are necessary to comprehend how fun manual labor is...

[@Hot_SpicyGrill]

If they where honest and showed the building it would be fine. I’ve watched home improvement videos and there fine.

[@shadowdragon8168]

I feel like such a moron now for missing some of these obvious indications to these types of videos being fake, the excavator tracks are so obvious and I was just oblivious to it

[@helmholtzthemulewatson4763]

Primitive technology is my favorite youtube channel every time he puts out a video a grab a drink, full screen and give it my full attention. To me it just so impressive and inspiring that one man could achieve so much with nothing. Even more impressive is that ancient people actually figure this shit out by themselves without the ability google it. Watching John really gives you an appreciation of what it took for us to get to where we are today. The problem I have with the other is that the other channels build things that clearly arent do-able with the methods they show alone. For example I saw a video where they made primitive cement with termite clay which is cool and legit, but after the cut amount of cement they had was increased 10 fold, was clearly store bought cement, plus there was absolutely no way there primitive process could of produced such a quantity. Yet the comment sections of these channels are filled with people who like asmon believe the processes work even if the labor is subbed out. The processes DO NOT work and the buildings they make are often so frail and disfunctiional they would not withstand more then a couple storms or even shed water. Its honestly disheartening to read through and see so many people lacking basic critical think skills, and therefor lack the ability to understand just how hard it would really be to build even the simplest structures.

[@Lorentari]

Concrete is made from quicklime, which is limestone which has been heat-treated at metal-melting temperatures. Quicklime itself reacts with water (which is why concrete gets hot as it hardens). Quicklime is quite porous and britle, so precise ratios of rocks between the sizes of fine sand to gravel is used along with glass fibers and trace metals, and sometimes salt is added to give cement the desired properties

[@Docktavion]

The same thing happens with house flipper shows. They always show around a dozen guys doing the work in X no. Of days. Soon as the cameras go off, dozens upon dozens of folk jump in to carry on.

[@Brazoree]

PT is such a good channel for when youre in your doomer moods

[@emmanuelsantana8294]

I would love to see these primitive building channels one-up each other to the point they're building literal planetary bodies.

[@datmanbrooksiehd875]

People born after Y2K will never know the joy of building forts as a kid.

[@Unamedblue3]

Y2k?

[@apocryphicdeath]

​@@Unamedblue3Year 2000

[@arshakakbar1062]

I'm pretty sure a lot of people born after 2000 still built forts, like it didn't just disappear.

[@messiahforyou4539]

it was funny how when you look at many of those builds the frames of doors or windows are cut out so precisely that it is so obvious they didnt use a stick

[@eredaane4656]

the most important thing here is, cement powder is not a reaction product, the reaction only happens after, when you bring it in contact with air and water. The main ingredients are Lime and Calciumsulfate. Then Quartzsand, Alkai and various metal oxides are added. the mixture is then heated to dry it out and mixed. when in then gets mixed with water and aggregats (like sand and small rocks) it creates a reaction that produces heat and takes days to fully complete.

[@LiveTwinReaction]

It's insane to me that all of those videos get like 50m+ views in a matter of weeks. I saw one of like 4 guys that had like, 105m views in 4 weeks, I did a double take when I saw it in recommended because I couldn't believe it lol. I watched one where it was a girl building a little cabin in the woods, she did a lot of the assembly work as you'd expect, as far as assembling the house itself I think it was fairly legit, she was climbing all over the framework to put in the next sticks/thin logs for the ceiling and flooring and it seemed reasonable enough. Until it got to the part where she decided to make a pool in an L shape around the cabin, which was maybe 5ft deep and 10ft wide all the way through which is insane, and then she went to make "paint" from crushing a green plant and mixing it with sap, it would have taken weeks to get the amount of paint she had from that method lmao.

[@Blackbirdone11]

Its looks cool even if everyone knows its fake..

[@Josh-qs1rl]

This is like that streamer when he revealed he had a fake fridge in his room.

[@forfun6273]

What about the streamer who faked to be paralyzed from the waist down until he stood up on cam lol.

[@Digitaldreamer7]

3:29 this 10 second explanation is the entire point of this video lol

[@timbomb374]

These people trying to defend those big pool ones lol. Some people have never had to work with their hands before.

[@endeavor8114]

I know I am late to comment but one thing is see being glossed over is that the land is leased like when a film crew rents land to shoot a movie but in the case of these channels the don’t clean up after themselves it is the equivalent of a movie crew not tearing down the set after filming was done and just left it for the property owners to deal with.

[@agothxagothx9010]

This IS how the pyramids was built. The Pharaoh built it, with a few helpers behind floating in the air:) - Before gravity was invented obviously:)

[@jarowan]

The moral of this story? Pay your camera guys and editors. Someone could have cared enough to make sure there's no excavator tracks in your videos, but they didn't.

[@EXRazeBurn]

"We've been finessed!" I howled XD

[@sheldonbarfield90]

Bambo has knuckles, and they don't let water flow through. You need to drill them out. Burning green bambo is fun since the steam pressure will explode the sections like a firecracker.

[@L.B.O.E]

The teeth design on the saw also has a lot to do with how clean its cuts different types of wood. And they have different teeth for frozen wood, wet wood, and dry wood. You can cut something with a general blade on hacksaw, folding saw, chainsaw etc and “it will cut”(forged in fire) but how clean, how easy it cuts and how well it excavates the saw dust will chain. Just like edge geometry on a knife and blade steel can determine how the knife cuts and just sharpening can only get the knife to max current potential. 17 degree blade angle knife cuts more “like a samurai sword” than a 24-30 degree knife that cuts more “like an ax”. But also having a 1/4inch thick knife with a thin blade edge with 24 degree blade angle can cut more “like a samurai sword” than a 17 degree 1inch thick knife with a thick blade edge. Everything has positives and negatives, you typically have some that is GREAT(7-10) at some and even most things but BAD(1-3)at others, or GOOD(4-6) at everything. P.S. I find that the older i get it that it kinda just sucks to have something that does a 4 on everything hahah most companies are going to sell you the 4(cars, computers, axes, lawnmowers, whatever) because selling you the 5 really is not going to be a net profit. Lee-vi jeans will always be a 4 why make your product a 6 when carhart is the 7. Everyone just has their niche stays in their own lanes and they all do the bare minimum for max profit.(not every company but majority)

[@looneybin8133]

I bought primitive technology book when it came out. It's such a useful and good book, that I placed it on the same shelf as my rare/antique books. Imagine a book from 2019 being placed right next to books that are several hundreds of years old.

[@MRtreeguy904]

I love how they mix mud and somehow it becomes concrete. I've worked in construction for years and the second I saw that in one of these videos I was like, nope, I'm out.

[@eragonrank5303]

It was such a hell digging a simple shell scrape while I was in the Singapore National Service. The tree roots and rocks are really painful to remove. Wonder why I never thought back on that.. hmm.

[@daydreamers8254]

24:56 knowing the OG real channel is aussie, reading his email i feel like there's a LOT of aussie filler words not being typed like "you know" and "yeah?" "right?" and a whole bunch of other lovely aussie slang. i love the way they talk but lawd help me i do not want to go to an island where they only survive on the brim of the continent and everything there wants to kill you... absolutely not

[@MasterIceyy]

The stuff that want's to kill you is mainly in the interior of Australia, the coasts are remarkably safe which is why, you know... Most Australians live on the coasts.

[@Sith_Kermit]

The only other channel I find legitimate besides primitive technology is primitive skill.

[@THUNDER52]

Roots & rocks while digging are why I was never able to do these things as a kid - literally. I would kill to do this stuff sometimes but cant

[@marcohernandez2519]

9:57 bro this moment is pure GOLD

[@softbreeze941]

I realised that some time ago because when you listen to these videos you can quite often hear a generator or a pump in the background when they are dealing with water and that pump sound is making an abrupt cut between the shots....

[@skypechess]

As I see, the termite nest they broke at 19:08 can be seen intact in the background at upper left corner at 19:17.

[@marlonestrella8105]

Btw chemical composition of concrete can be found in most places You just need the following Concrete is actually a mixture of cement (the binder), water and some form of aggregate (the filler). This means that concrete is a composite material. In addition to this, cement is also a compound material, as it is a mixture of limestone and clay

[@AcidHeat]

15:48 As an Excavator operator for around 4 years now i can tell you its 100% been dug by an excavator its a hard clay and bucket alwaays leaves these "sliced" half "ripped" marks in the ground on the sides. But and its a big BUT i've never seen an excavator with tracks like these shown here where they go like this: --------|______ _____|--------- And not straight like this: -------_------- -------_------- It may be an older excavator or just a backhoe loader. Hard to tell.

[@stacktus9158]

“I didn’t think about the roots” never dug a hole in your life confirmed 😂😂

[@Wargulf2838]

it's one thing to make a proof of concept by saying "it's technically *feasible* but it's gonna take too long to dig thing trench up alone with one stick and two rocks, so i'm employing a team to accelerate the process of the project." but it's clearly another to have an excavator come in, dig a massive hole, then getting in the hole and slapping dirt around with a stick as if you're digging the swimming pool yourself, or doing anything meaningful for that matter.

[@ianjardine7324]

Concrete is based on the chemical reaction between calcium and water which is why the base for any concrete mix is some form of naturally occurring calcium like limestone or shellfish shells heated for a sustained time to remove any moisture and impurities resulting in a volatile powder known as quicklime which reacts with moisture to create heat this technology has been used for centuries in various cultures for a wide range of uses from speeding quicklime on fields where rain would wash it into the soil to reduce soil acidity to mixing it with other substances to create a mixture which would react with water by heating and hardening such as lime putty for glazing and lime mortar for construction.

[@Elyssen]

24:00 "We used to throw everything out the window and eventually cleaned it up just so our neighbour can sell their house" The story goes something like that.

[@sneakypeteog9968]

I'm a wood worker if you want those clean cuts without the " fibers" use painters tape over the cut area ...tape prevents the blow out !