What (or who) is SMASNUG?

[@BuiltBySMASNUG]

Finally time for my username to shine

[@saltedmutton7269]

Hello I Am John Smasnug Please Remove Our Trademark Name Please Thank You

[@cammtig]

no fucking way

[@tauon_]

holy shit hi smasnug can i have a smasnug galaxl phone

[@awii.neocities]

SMASNUG!!!!

[@sacredsouljah]

​@@cammtigtoradora based as

[@TaleOfTheToaster]

Now we wait for the SMASNUG X Michaelsoft Binbows crossover

[@shiro3146]

dont forget Somy and OLG along with Pear

[@Chubby_Bub]

SMASNUG is Michaelsoft Binbows's evil counterpart

[@azenyr]

Personaly I think the Megahard Doors 11 is much better than Michaelsoft Binbows 11. And both are better than that new BigMacOS Mountain Bottom that Pear just released. But don't forget that Smasnug can and will for sure release a new competitor to the Ybox and put Twodroid on it. I'm sure they will call it the UwULED edition. But then comes LowG TV and their new AwwLED that will be so bright and colorful that we will all forget about the Binbows scandal. It's all in the Matrix dudes. We can't escape. Not even if you have a Ford Unfocused 2020. It's not fast enough to escape. Vote Trumpet for a better future, because with Bidet in power we can't go far. Or was it the other way around? Oh man

[@rich1051414]

Michaelsoft Binbows was ran by a single guy in Japan who did PC repairs, who had a sense of humor. It was great to see it was on purpose and he was in on the joke from the start.

[@patrickday4206]

​@@shiro3146 OMG not OLG 😂

[@ramosavila141]

she thinks we are gonna fall into the lie that she's a normal woman and not a personality core from portal

[@RedKuwlt]

the sheeple will think it's real

[@bezserca]

GET OUT OF MY HEAD

[@BorfieKai]

​@@RedKuwltI will never be a sheep

[@tuppot]

She was smart enough to find an actress that looks normal but not generically normal in a suspicious way?

[@mopeybloke]

​@@tuppotBut the actress's accent is nowhere as thick as Queen F4mi's.

[@Domobot]

The next step is clear: acquiring and shipping a genuine SMASNUG for Dankpods. It would go great with all his Craigs.

[@PETEESE]

CRAIGGGG

[@Eda-Clawthorne-BGC]

Eeeee peeee ceeee

[@Eda-Clawthorne-BGC]

Also, Haitch pea

[@PETEESE]

@@Eda-Clawthorne-BGC PKCELL

[@tyttuut]

​@@PETEESE ᵒʰ ᵐʸ ᵖᵏᶜᵉˡˡ

[@ivylain5479]

the f4mi face reveal is mental

[@f4micom]

i am sorry for the conspiracy theorists who thought i was an ai or a dude with a voice changer this is truly the worst day of the month for them

[@RAFMnBgaming]

@@f4micom I had like €50 on you having brown hair, damn you to hell.

[@donoteatmikezila]

King Kong Ballers already knew.

[@f4micom]

@@donoteatmikezila REAL

[@NinoJoel]

​@@f4micomEither way would not have been a problem 😂 Love ya voice and videos ❤

[@pijinguy]

Oh my god. It's crazy how in depth you go into researching the these weird topics. Amazing video 10/10

[@MinNeTi-100]

Lets call SMASNUG to even so much @qzeq

[@MelodicaDude]

7:43 i love these smash cuts you do in your videos. the bit literally never gets old. true evergreen.

[@Carhill]

It's a gag that'll never get old for me. Always makes me smirk. More-so if there's a big lead up to the satisfying smash cut.

[@nickwallette6201]

I will always love the fake-out / jump-cut combo. "It's not like they would just leave the door unlocked, for anyone to walk rig--" "Guys, _they left the door unlocked._ "

[@generallyunimportant]

a true f4micom gal funny moment, everybody.

[@FunkyFurret]

that cut scared the hell out of me!

[@mirabilis]

Ha ha. Smol funneh.

[@Joedrops]

How is this channel this small? You research the most obscure and interesting topics. Love it.

[@jannikheidemann3805]

You answered your question yourself. It's obscure.

[@Stacy-Freshener]

@@jannikheidemann3805 Yes , I do hope the channel grows for it's own need but there is something good about niche and obscure too. The only problem is blowing up on youtube also gives more revenue , so it's a mix. I went from having 10-30 people I sub to and watch on 2-3 yrs to a lot more in just 5-6 months. This year alone I found over 200+ people to sub to , and I have tons of content I watch , normally I'm very picky but now not. I still try not to watch unnecessary videos or same - same content farm ( like one channel doing same topic 3 times ) and some sponser shill videos

[@pilby457]

f4mi, I just wanted to say thank you for protecting the actual creators of smasnug from actually being named who are probably just doing their best to get their products sold outside of the west. This is a really interesting topic, I feel like this could be studied in some sort of undergrad global economics course

[@jannikheidemann3805]

Yeah, but the chinese trademark office will happily tell anyone who asks. They're not realy protected in your sense. What protects them is the chinese government not caring much about foreign trademarks.

[@nobodyfornow]

for a funny joke that was actually some pretty solid investigative journalism, well done!

[@LatiosGigetto]

1337 video length? You know this one's gonna be good from that alone

[@cvabds]

1338

[@LatiosGigetto]

@@cvabdsyou sit on a throne of LIES (or are from mobile)

[@9Tailsfan]

Leet speak!

[@piedpiper1172]

@@LatiosGigettoDoes mobile show 1s longer run times? I watch… so much KZbin on my phone. How do I not know about this?

[@danielmaijs888]

​​@@LatiosGigettomy smasnug is telling me leet (13.37)

[@clementpruvost8670]

Say thanks to Dankpods for spreading that meme!

[@Platitudinous9000]

danks thankpods

[@montyish]

Thank dank 👍

[@thatguyalex2835]

Dankepods

[@sheepgti390]

this is insane, as the biggest collector of old samsung galaxy phones in europe, all my komrades always mock me with the smasnug meme and im very happy after watching this because now theres someone i can take out all my rage and frustration on.

[@KarolinaBielnik]

This is so mean of them. I would only mock you as an collector of explosives and call you Ted.

[@RabbitEarsCh]

Brilliant editing, and the music choices are top tier. I was reeling from both Cuba Baion and Hong Kong 97. Supremely good as always, you're growing too powerful

[@OrangeKRUSH001a]

I fucking giggled at Hong Kong 97

[@voidmain7902]

It's also the FDS Luo Tianyi cover. The NSF file for that is a bit of a lost media on its own. The original author is Chinese and they probably took it down for you know why.

[@grantschilb8019]

I had no idea that SMASNUG was real. Just thought it was a DankPods thing, like the Nuggets, 1grit, huh duh six hungeos, etc. I remember putting a real Samsung monitor on FB marketplace and accidentally listing it as a Smasnug. Been following the channel since you uncovered the story behind the homebrew channel music. Keep up the cool videos!

[@petershillito]

This video goes places I was not at all expecting. Your dedication to the bit is incredible, especially with the costume changes. Top tier video.

[@PHF28]

These videos speak to me at a core level. Of course I had that extremely common MP3 player. Excellent video once again and nice to see your talking head.

[@secretjazz93]

I think I had that very same mp3 player. got it in 2003 back when ripping entire albums from limewire was big. it probably cost something around 30 bux which was alot at the time, and the manufacturing cost was probably less than 3

[@crispy_bedbug9]

I love how in-depth you were with researching this. Also the Pentium 4 hat goes incredibly hard, I'm gonna start searching for one now.

[@Psythik]

The Half-Life 2 sound effects to censor her language were lit AF too

[@secretjazz93]

she has some top tier editing skills ngl I don't know if she edits and cuts all her videos by herself, but whoever did it: nice job

[@reptarien]

Wonderful video. I've watched enough LTT and DankPods before to realize that it was almost certainly the OEM behind this, but knowing for sure is super awesome. Also your comedic timing never fails on me

[@Robofussin]

Your editing has improved a ton. Nice work!

[@Ben79k]

i realized the OEM garbage rabbit hole was deep but i had no idea it was THIS DEEP. thank you for turning it into some wonderful entertainment

[@professor-raccoon]

Incredible quality, I'm so glad I'm witnessing this channel grow!

[@mayabogdanova9506]

2:05 as a linux user i confirm that we have to manually rearrange it with a hex editor because we dont have a gui, especially not those rumors about an x windowing system

[@SnakebitSTI]

Rumors? RTFM! You just need a mainframe to process the graphics, then your workstation can display bitmaps! Though to be honest I can't say I see the point. Things have really gone downhill since people got the bright idea to display things other than text on their glass TTYs.

[@Les_Savy_Raz]

Wow this video was really well made! Never thought I would find a dedicated nugget historian that was this dedicated, stupendous work!

[@jddes]

Wow, the voice modulator was one thing, that's been easy to do for a while, but your new deepfake is great. I'm blown away by how convincing the CGI is! Feel like some people will actually be tricked lol. Keep up the good work, dude. But seriously, you're one of the most under appreciated youtubers I've found, but I don't expect the obscurity to last too long.

[@twinkpeaks9993]

Admire the amount of effort and research that goes into these niche topics, it fuels my need for extremely specific and stupid interests so much

[@BM30]

The amount of research that goes into your videos is actually incredible! You honestly inspire me to try go in more in my future vids because sometimes I make videos on random obscure topics lol.

[@tails324]

Idk if this is the first face reveal or not but holy shit you are so beautiful!!! Loved you’re videos for a while now and it’s so cool to put a face to the voice. And such a pretty one!! Keep up the great work! You’re content is amazing!

[@AFellowQuestionMark]

Your choice in background music is straight up GOATED! You got soundtracks from the Gran Turismo games, Enthusia, and you even snuck in E-Z Rollers - Retro at around 12:03. Massive respect!

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

You’ve outdone yourself with this one F4mi omg this was amazing

[@ToniPambianco-4316]

This video appeared in my KZbin home page. I'm glad that i clicked it because this is a deep research for something that's basically a meme. I know i'm one of many but you earned a like and a sub. Great analysis.

[@astropgn]

DAMN! The quality of your video / editing just got an exponential spike! This is awesome!

[@plume...]

I only discovered your channel 2 days ago (because of the Wii Homebrew channel music vid, god I fucking love that tune...) and I've been binging your videos ever since. I can't believe you don't have more subs. Your content is hilarious, well researched and incredibly well made. Thanks for the videos and I sincerely hope your channel blows up and gets much bigger (maybe as big as Kongs balls?). Thanks again F4mi

[@OfficialScottR]

Great video as always. Thanks for having quality subtitles - I don't always use them, but think its really important for accessibility reasons, and many KZbinrs with millions of subscribers don't put in the effort to add them

[@grantschilb8019]

Yeah, I always enjoy custom subtitles. Especially joke ones on channels like TerminalMontage

[@Gunbudder]

2:06 i would have never thought to rotate an image by rearranging its bytes like this hahaha

[@alexdyke194]

Lol does the command actually rotate an image? I assumed it was juat a stock photo, since (as a linux user myself) I would have used ffmpeg

[@SnakebitSTI]

When I watched the video, from the glance I got I assumed it was a simple joke, but looking back at it... I don't know how png files are structured, so I don't know if it'd work, but yes there is code there to shuffle data around inside the file to "rotate" it, though most of the commands are padding. I'm beginning to suspect that this code actually would rotate a png.

[@lifobu2008]

OH MY GOD, I TRIED FINDING YOUR CHANNEL A MONTH AGO BUT I DIDNT REMEMBER THE USERNAME OR THE VIDEO I WATCHED AND NOW I FINALLY FOUND IT !

[@Deses]

If f4mi uploads it's going to be a good month.

[@linuxwashere]

Whenever you said Smasnug the first thing I thought of was dank pods, was not expecting him to be a topic of the video!

[@alexdyke194]

I'm not sure you would be able to tell the difference even if it did explode, i got a black friday deal Samsung, and its total trash. My off-brand chineese TV in the other room is better than the legit Samsung in every metric

[@SianaGearz]

A brand new nuuuuuuuuug

[@PinguNSE]

Ah, the legendary SMASNUG It was quite interesting to find out where it might have came from and how common it actually is Also, hello to all DankPods viewers :)

[@patrlim]

ITS SMA SNUG

[@CalebPineapple]

frank snake

[@generallyunimportant]

i read your name as dingus, im crying

[@M4ximumCheese]

The 1 grit

[@2Ar_t]

PinguNSE? wow i didn't expect here you here

[@geniyakova354]

F4mi never fails to make us wait for 3 months for a 13 minute video

[@PinkTuskedMammoth]

your one of those creators that makes me wish I could sub multiple times lol. Keep up the great work on your vids!

[@IgnatSolovey]

KONKA in Nokia font is apparently a huge brand that exists since the 1980. They make TVs, LED walls and household appliances. Apparently, the quality is more than decent. The first funny part is that in Russian this word means “horse-drawn tram used in the 19th century before trams became electric”. The second funny part is that Nokia never sued them, or failed to do so. Probably because in Chinese it's just Kāngjiā, the characters can be translated as “peaceful beauty”.

[@utaf]

a nugget has an entire lore?! insane!

[@plythbird]

i randomly became curious about smasnug and decided to look it up. i was not expecting such a well made video on this topic but thank you so much for enlightening me.

[@ssf1389]

this video made me realize why i subscribed to this channel. its amazing

[@Vondrool]

This has to be your best produced video yet Keep up the good work!

[@DaffyDaffyDaffy33322]

I was not prepared for that better call saul reference, nearly lost it LMAO

[@CATLITmusic]

Smasnug sounds like someone about to say "Would smash" and then, halfway through the sentence, censoring themself to a more wholesome snuggle. "Would sma- snug."

[@robdotgif]

I adore this type of high effort insane hyperfixation videos that you make

Wow, you got nerd sniped HARD with this one. I mean, after 2 weeks, I might as well have fallen, but not to the point of contacting the OEM. I’d be floored if you eventually get a 100 TVs to sell, because I know you’d make one hell of an ad for that. Awesome video, and delighted by your face reveal. You managed to hide yourself well in the King Kong Balls video, so this was unexpected.

[@aqua-bery]

As soon as I saw "SMASNUG", I knew dankpods will come in somewhere. Thank you for making this video :)

[@michal_hryniewicz]

that's what I call good investigative journalism!

[@davemarcosmalicdem9543]

the editing is TOP NOTCH for someone with half a hundred subs. Loving this!

[@Cuby3212]

Hey Fami, you look very cute! >w< Btw nice video and great search, it's funny to see how such a simple meme led to making this video xd

[@TSteffi]

You know, I didn't have a TV for almost 20 years now. But this somehow makes me want to get a SMASNUG TV, just for the lolz.

[@hemangchauhan2864]

I'm laughing for 30 seconds straight at the name "SMASNUG" hahahahaha

[@rayder3543]

A lambda in the background, Half-Life sound effects, portal and dnb music, get your like.

[@u1f98a]

i appreciate how 2:05 is actually a somewhat sensible command i dont see it calling out to ImageMagick or anything so I don't know if it works but at least it's not just gibberish

[@Iwasneverevenhere]

Having a closer look at it, it does perform two kinds of rotation, but both only produce gibberish: The combination of 'rev' and 'tac' flip the base64-encoded data vertically and horizontally, which amounts to a 180° rotation (of the base64 encoded data, which is not very helpful). The tr applies a rot13 cipher to the base64 data, which can also be considered a rotation. It also doesn't do anything actually useful. Since both "rotations" undo themselves, you could try to treat this as a (very weak) cipher. Unfortunately, this will not generally work, as base64 introduces line breaks at a fixed point. Unless the length of the base64 encoded data is divisible by that line length, decoding and reencoding will move the line breaks around, so rotating it will now produce a different result. Since PNG is a compressed format, I don't think you could easily rotate it with a sequence of operations like this. For uncompressed formats, it might be possible. Also, it's probably possible to create a polyglot file where this exact command does actually produce the rotated image. (bonus points if you make it so that the tar archive can be renamed to .png to be the image) Anyway, this was fun to look at. Pretty sure that coming up with this mess was a lot more effort than finding the imagemagick command... Thank you for your comment, otherwise I wouldn't have given this a closer look xD

[@superhavi]

Fun fact: SMA is a standard for high frequency connectors. Those connectors have a very snug fit.

[@No_True_Scotsman]

Hey someone else is here today

[@ariverforyou]

This is the kind of investigative content that would make Columbo proud.

[@estherstreet4582]

Your videos are always so good, I never realised how much I need weird deep dives into niche tech stuff. Also dang I can't believe you have a real face and aren't just a sentient famiclone...

[@awii.neocities]

i can see your voice being modded into portal replacing glados and instead of bullying chell you'll just tell her about random stuff about videogames and tech

[@War3st]

almost 14 min video about smasnug bootleg tvs - this is why i subscribed to you

[@MuteLunacy]

dankpods f4mi crossover episode

[@genvara]

hello! nice in depth video on this, saw these too where i live in Algeria (which is neighboring Tunisia) and wondered where did they come from. i just wanted to also clarify that this doesn't just happen with TVs but other kinds of products (even ones ripping from popular brands in china like xiaomi), again good video! [hello to the dankpods fans watching this]

[@rcnhsuailsnyfiue2]

came for the smasnug meme… stayed for the pentium hat. nice 👌

[@emdotrod]

2023 will be f4mi's renaissance year

[@Cybro18]

Damn she got so many good videogame SFX/ sound tracks.

[@akpokemon]

I love your videos. It took me a while to get used to the accent (I have to turn off my 2x speed video LOL) but it's worth it. These topics, your editing, sleuthing, and writing are captivating

[@RandomTypekYT]

8:11 GRAND SMASNUG?!?!?!? WHAT THE SH

[@generallyunimportant]

you're the LAST person i'd expect to see in the wild like that glad to see you're still existant at the current moment, though.

[@AbdAlHakamJunaid]

Why are YOU here??

[@stvmty]

I laughed at the whole thing from start to finish. Good work detective!

[@autumntwentytwo]

Would it be possible to put all the music track titles in the description? Intros and outros are great, but there are so many songs I'd love to find that play over the course of the video.

[@f4micom]

working on it rn

[@autumntwentytwo]

@@f4micom Thank you so much!

[@insaknighty]

wake up, new f4mi video!! i don't think i would've thought to spend this much time on a topic like this, great video!

[@CompactDisc_700MB]

Great video, But I need to know where to find the Pentium 4 hat?

[@Super_Charged4life]

i wasnt expecting to watch a 15 min video on a bootleg tv but here i am and im not mad. you earned a sub

[@soggybaguette8457]

The face reveal jumpscared me lol

[@midorin69]

I love the usage of the portal ost in the background, let alone the video length really sealing the deal on that one :')

[@Gunbudder]

has she shown her face before? she is perfect

[@PankoBreading]

King Kong balls

[@PankoBreading]

Also her twitter

[@notexactlysiev]

I love this channel, it's like Nick Robinson but somehow even nerdier

[@chuuisinsane]

i own penesamig batteries theyre so lovely

[@Retr0101_]

what an emotional rollercoaster, helluva plot twist at the end. another 10/10 video

[@MinipremfnReal]

Nice video you haven’t posted in so long

[@javiercarocca3089]

it always makes my day better to see a new upload from f4mi's channel

[@FENUSfenux]

Ayo face reveal?!!

[@FirstLast-oe2jm]

Messaging chinese manufacturers is always fun because we're in completely opposite timezones lmao

[@aprofondir]

Tesla aren't counterfeit TVs, they're actual products made by a Serbian company, nothing to do with the cringe emerald mine boy

[@ori-wastaken]

I believe they were made by Vestel & rebadged as Tesla. Pretty common knowledge in the technosphere.

[@zumuvtuber]

What a wild ride. Never thought I'd see such a deep investigation on the SMASNUG meme. Awesome work!

[@xqu1c]

I love keyboard smash off brands or just funny off-brands like Michaelsoft Binbows they're so funny

[@vejin9]

At first I didn't even bother clicking the thumbnail. I needed few days to realize that it's your video and ahmagahd I never seen a woman looking like a woman in my retro-bubble. Cheers.

[@wewnothing]

bro i am from tunisia and if this get 1k likes i will get it and record a vid of it

[@vechirni_anbernic]

The joy videos like this give me - PRICELESS. Such an awesome idea

[@genmaicha_]

why are you italian

[@generallyunimportant]

well you see, @genmaicha_, when a paisano puts his spaghetti noodle in mamma mia's ravioli, a little babmbino covered in prosciutto comes out about 9 months later.

[@genmaicha_]

@@generallyunimportant why the fuck would you write this i love it

[@generallyunimportant]

@@genmaicha_ it's a reference to the first episode of the adventures of mario and luigi, i think. it just lives rent-free in my head, mostly because of vinesauce vinny.

[@generallyunimportant]

i can't believe f4micom would turn into sally "better sma snug" goodman, craziest turn of the century.

[@generallyunimportant]

also, i wanted to say something else, probably about gesturing in the video or your appearance overall, but i forgot and i'm too eepy to try to formulate my thoughts propelyr

[@mariuszko10]

you are beautiful ❤

[@nononymous]

when you started talking about OEM and explaining what it was, my brain was like "this is going way too far for a simple counterfeit thing" ... but i continued cuz it's really interesting how you can dig up again and again like it seems like it will never end, all starting from a simple thing xD

[@Alexifeu]

The linux joke was so funny xD It do be like that sometimes on Linux.

[@DeanLawrence_ftw]

This is amazing. quality investigative journalism and I laughed my butt off at SMASNUG the entire time. Instant subscribe 🙂

[@mrnobody7025]

I love all your videos there's really no other chanel like yours. So much depth, detail and humour! I usually don't comment but I just want to say I like all your outfit changes in this video. You have real style!

[@madoufo]

I couldn't die without knowing everything about SMASNUG. Great video after i watched i had to subscribe

[@juppsenn]

This is such an entertaining video, hope more people see this channel!