Why Cell Towers Are Being Disguised As Trees - Cheddar Explains

[@TheNewsDepot]

I love how, in some of the pictures, they surrounded the cell towers with camo, but they didn't paint the transceivers, so it just looks like a shiny metal cell tower overgrown with tree.

[@debtrunner7929]

That would be cool a vine-tree/cell tower.

[@zakroxitup]

painting would make the antennas less effective (need more towers) painting other equipment dark would attract too much heat

[@TheNewsDepot]

@@zakroxitup Are you trying to tell me that 1mm of paint is more dampening than say, the metal casing on the antennae or the cell phone casing on the receiving end? Or the pollution in the air? Or rain? Or even the camoflaging foliage they have around the thing?

[@voidofspaceandtime4684]

@@zakroxitup It'd be too much for 5G, but incredibly minimal for 4g and before. Doesn't make sense.

[@zakroxitup]

@@TheNewsDepot yes. that is exactly what I'm saying. I've been in the industry for a while - signal propagation is significantly degraded when paint is applied (antenna don't have "metal cases") and yes the fake "foliage" also has negative effects. Painting the RRU's (remote radio units next to antennas) or other equipment generally voids warranties because of heat - they are light colored to reflect as much heat as possible. As to rain and pollution they both degrade signal, but ... not much you can do about it. As to handsets, they are designed with cases in mind ... remember the external antennas? they are getting better.

[@ezequielviana3687]

People: this is such an eye sore! Company: *adds leaves* People: much better

[@vaiyt]

Some people: "HIDDEN MIND CONTROL DEVICES! NIMBY! NIMBY! ARGLE BARGLE!"

[@saudiprince6532]

Ezequiel Viana thanks for summarising the video for me

[@ezequielviana3687]

@@saudiprince6532 your welcome

[@voidofspaceandtime4684]

I'm not sure if anyone thinks it looks better.

[@pingwenhung8327]

No phone connection for ya all xD

[@brickmastermason3672]

My grandma has a cell tower in her yard. She gets paid 900$ a month for its very existence. A good deal if you ask me.

[@J0cK3rFr3aK]

Great, tell him to start saving for chemo.

[@holikwakkemoli]

him?

[@MehboobIslam]

@@J0cK3rFr3aK Thank you, tinfoil-man!

[@MehboobIslam]

@@J0cK3rFr3aK radio and micro waves don't cause cancer. They are non ionising radiation. Go back to school again, jackass 😅

[@MehboobIslam]

@@OrangeToGo its just like rent.. You get paid according to the real estate market in the area.. In rural areas you get paid less and more in urban areas

[@kevinalexander7710]

“The Cheddar Ending” is where you’ve realized you’ve given enough info and just abruptly end your vide....

[@Yo-bk4dk]

So true

[@MaeV808]

It feels hella cut off. But they probs based it on KZbin analytics, e.g view times, of content like theirs.

[@TheJttv]

Wind farms are pretty when they are spinning.

[@kkwun4969]

Jttv when they blow up is when they are most beautiful

[@rabokarabekian409]

pretty spinning causes cancer everybody knows it so sad covfefe

[@nicoledoubleyou]

@@rabokarabekian409 lol

[@edwardtamayo1153]

Bird killers!

[@vidguy007]

I hear the noise makes you have cancer. I stopped at one, there was no noise.

[@sophiajune546]

I happen to think that wind farms are much more beautiful than other ways of getting energy.

[@abouttogiveyasomefacts5574]

Sophia June so true

[@米空軍パイロット]

I think it's weird what we find beautiful. I find poweful and elegant things to be powerful. Aerodynamic aircraft, nuclear powerplants, gigantic cargo ships. Guess engineering is engrained in my soal.

[@bigredc222]

I thought windmills were good, till I found out they kill thousands of bird each year, it stinks.

[@sophiajune546]

@@bigredc222 yeah I wish that there was some progress on reducing that :(

[@_jannis]

@@bigredc222 That's insignificant compared to the number of Birds killed by pet cats

[@couch9416]

Us logic: I wanna use my phone but i don't wanna have a tower anywhere near

[@mukamuka0]

the 1st world problem in the nutshell. I'll happily have cell tower near my house, so I could enjoy full download speed.

[@vaiyt]

NIMBYism is one hell of a drug

[@abouttogiveyasomefacts5574]

Sportmann941 that’s boomer logic

[@ashleyshim2078]

@choppa grizzly lmaooo

[@nicoledoubleyou]

@choppa grizzly lol. Yeeeaaah... White people logic. Without white people, brown people wouldn't have cell phone towers to even think about. White people logic is what developed half the world so I think there's something to it Maybe what you meant was "over-privileged people logic"

[@moth.monster]

I don't think there's a problem with "visual pollution" when it comes to things like wires and antennae, things that are actually useful. Billboards though, they're horrible.

[@projectkepleren]

Seeing wire pole actually make me feel like im in a more urban commu ity

[@meistsyans6526]

You like wires?! I can't imagine how your house looks like. I try to hide every cable, making everything look "wireless".

[@moth.monster]

@@meistsyans6526 my house sucks ass

[@NightyFall]

@@meistsyans6526 hes just saying that the outdoor wires dont look bad. that's a different ballpark than indoor

[@meistsyans6526]

@@NightyFall if you don't mind wires outside I'm pretty sure you wouldn't mind wires inside. I think wires look "ok" in developing countries if you want to get that feeling, but on high-tech cities they look horrendous.

[@brinkshows2720]

We should put wind farms underground :)

[@Leo-xe6rf]

Brink Shows solar panels as well

[@13earz]

Earthquake Farms

[@kurtlindner]

I like my mob farms underground.

[@appa609]

Thanks Patrick

[@bunters]

Brink Shows if we did that, where would we get the wind from? I’m not %100 sure on your design, but to what I know is that it may not be a very good idea when you also consider where you would put it.

[@ezequielviana3687]

Just paint the cell towers in camouflage then nobody will be able to see it

[@chelsey8737]

My dad loves this joke 😂😭

[@cubingwithcarl4572]

Chelsey Abbott ok

[@rabokarabekian409]

can we get pink camo towers?

[@user-pk8bb6lf9b]

Haha i remember these. They were more on an eye sore than the towers they were trying to disguise

[@filonin2]

What do you mean "were"? They're everywhere. Currently.

[@user-pk8bb6lf9b]

@@filonin2 neat!

[@voidofspaceandtime4684]

@@filonin2 Not everywhere. It seems certain cities choose to do this. most will still opt for not doing so.

[@filonin2]

@@voidofspaceandtime4684 By "evrrywhere" I meant that they are extremely common. Of course not every city has them. Lots of places are shitholes that can't afford beautification.

[@voidofspaceandtime4684]

I wouldn't call it beautification. More like trashyfication. These things look like plastic toys sat on giant poles.

[@ffejkk37]

As long as we keep looking down at our phones, we can't see the things around us.

[@xxxno3xxx9]

ffej kk----Rodger that artifact

[@marlanatomagan1867]

So true !!!!

[@maliciousconduct3952]

@@abheyparmar8622 Millennials feel the same way. It's just the Gen z brainwashed children. Don't worry, every generation has been like that coming out of public schools, half of them will become adults. The problem is the half that doesn't wake up have most of the children.

[@falling_vega1257]

The irony of people complaining about the internet, on the internet

[@tjautosales9856]

ffej kk I can feel ur level of thinking. That one sentence raised thousands of questions.

[@GlennOrSomething]

Love the videos but listing Vox as a source when some people already consider this channel a Vox clone definitely doesn’t help

[@jacobsvideo96]

It is a vox clone.

[@chelsey8737]

Yeah I mean they are basically the same

[@jonnathan1869]

But how tho?

[@kevindao1103]

Seems that every channel is trying to replicate Vox’s success.

[@JokerL1000]

Cheddar is going on being the best youtube channel for random stories

[@pravda9646]

@Lil Heinz94 Vox is legit, as is Cheddar

[@RyuuTenno]

I love how the "solution" to the eye sore of cell towers, is to make it stick out more. North Augusta has a cell tower, that while noticeable when on a hill looking out over Augusta, it actually isn't an issue. At least, that was until they decorated it. The cell tower was grey, amd when viewed during the day at the top of a hill, I would blend in with the light blue sky really well, so you wouldn't even notice it. Well, they built a neighborhood right next to it, some time after it was built. And as a result, they decorated it. And made it look like a pine tree. Except the issue is, the leaves are literally at the top. So when you see it, you first think: wtf is a redwood doing here among a bunch of short trees, and then second: why is the trunk made of metal? So, as a result, it in fact became *more* of an eyesore after they decorated it, than it did of they had just left it alone. Now, personally, concerning utilities, etc, I do actually have issues with wires hanging everywhere, because not only is it visual pollution, it's also dangerous in bad weather. Lines could snap, poles can fall, etc. So, we need those underground. This also frees up our views of the sky, so we're not looking through a web of wires amd feeling as though we're caged in. But, a cell phone tower or two isn't an issue. Most people aren't looking up, so, it doesn't matter. Plus, we've got water towers everywhere. So those should definitely be dealt with if cell towers are an issue. I think painting the towers might be useful, amd if possible, making them "invisible" would be good too. Some people have managed to make "invisible/disappearing" skyscrapers, so, I'm sure the same techniques could apply to cell towers as well. But, I think the best way to actually deal with 'hiding' these eye sores, isn't to get them to blend in with nature, but to turn them into pieces of art. Sure it's expensive, but, imagine a normal/camouflaged cell tower falling apart, vs, a piece of art falling apart. People will willingly pay, and do so above and beyond the requirements, to keep the piece of art within their city, versus being happy that the older eye sore is finally dead and gone. Appropriate decoration, will be infinitely better, than simply ignoring/camouflaging eye sores. If the statue of liberty was a simple block it would be a simple eye sore, but, it's a piece of art, that should it ever get destroyed, NYC would instantly raise the necessary funds, and more, for repairing. So, I honestly think we're just applying the wrong solution to the problem overall.

[@SalivatingSteve]

RyuuTenno I agree the towers decorated as trees are a bigger eyesore and stick out more than just painting the tower grey or blue to blend in with the sky.

[@-Burb]

RyuuTenno I think thats definitely the case sometimes in places where there aren’t many trees. But over here in Colorado’s mountains, they work REALLY well. Since there’s a massive forest of large trees, it’s really hard to see the towers disguised as other large pine trees. So I feel like in some areas they should be left alone, but in others they really are helpful.

[@hairyhenry97]

I didn’t read any of that

[@humanbeing2144]

They still cause so much pain in the body pits in eyes cancer of breast brain testicular skin damage to the DNA of plants animals and Humans kills bees butterflies birds because the electromagnetic sensor in their brain cause them to get lost and die .Wildlife habitat noticed even the eggs in nest explodes because of being microwaved by cell towers.think people!.

[@RyuuTenno]

@@humanbeing2144 cell phone towers don't communicate over microwaves. They're not high enough energy for that. They're in the basic radio frequencies. If we made it so ever phone could run off of microwaves I'd understand that being an issue. And cancers are caused by ionizing radiation, which requires UV light and up. Telecoms are via lower frequencies, well below the infrared spectrum. And even so, you'd need to run through the microwave section before hitting infrared beams. That said I don't think those cause any issues either given that we use infrared signals every day in our TVs/remotes and computers. Don't get me wrong, i understand that there could still be a hidden issue with using different radio waves, I just don't think they're capable of causing there's problems in their own. Might need to be mixed with other things. And if electromagnetism was truly an issue, then we'd be affected by a lot more stuff. And doctors wouldn't be using MRI machines.

[@chongjunxiang3002]

"You can't have both way" situation. Either you want better cellphone signal and 4G or you want good view. If your community get rid of that tower you might as well has no eligible to complain the slower 4G internet in your community compare to those welcome those ugly Prism Tower/ Yuri mind control towers.

[@appa609]

chongjunxiang3002 I say paint the tower in bright colors and put it on a mountaintop. Make it a feature not a bug.

[@hassanm.1887]

Who's Yuri?

[@Reznor1974]

@@hassanm.1887 Yuri Besmenov, an ex-KGB agent who defected to the US in the 70's and spilled the beans on Soviet intrusions in American Media, Academic and political spheres.

[@snaavs]

Or just place it outside the town. Dur!

[@ScottBrady06]

4G is objectively not slow tho, it’s just got more latency compared to 5G

[@Cheezus]

I'd demand a refund if I were them...those trees look like trash xD

[@bigred4556]

I saw one of them the other day and had absolutely no clue what it was. I drove Down the same road for years and never even saw the tower until a bunch of the woods got cleared out and the other day I just happened to see it and was so confused why there was a massive metal tree. As someone who does tree work it stood out so much because trees just dont get that big where I live.

[@areascoda2912]

People waste so much money on “beautifying” and they do it in poor taste. Unacceptable.

[@insectbite1714]

Waste money on 5G

[@samyoyoyo555]

@@insectbite1714 5g is like one of the most useless things for humans... *"OmG gUyS lOoK mY iNtErNeT Is fAsTeR tHaN BeFOrE bY a FeW SeCoNdS nOw"*

[@deepspacecow2644]

@@insectbite1714 There are many places where the broadband infra sucks. 5g provides competition.

[@Leo-xe6rf]

Some of those trees look so fake it’s just sad

[@hjspalenka]

People are calling wind farms visual pollution? That's BS, wind farms are beautiful.

[@BitcoinMotorist]

Nightmare inducing bird killers

[@hjspalenka]

@@BitcoinMotorist again, no clue where you're coming from with the nightmare inducing part. And as for "bird killers," I trust natural selection to weed out the birds too dumb to avoid a tower that, though armed with a spinning propellor, does not actually move.

[@NatureShy]

@@hjspalenka To play devils advocate, there are some cases where wind farms are visual pollution. They're an eyesore in places of outstanding natural beauty, with few other obvious manmade landmarks. For example, places that you might go hiking at to see nature. You don't want to see wind farm towers if they're too close to your trail, because you go hiking to see nature's beauty untrammeled. Another obvious example is you don't want to build a wind farm at a national park like the Grand Canyon, because you want to preserve its natural beauty. Of course, these are just exceptions and most areas would be ok for wind farms. A resident or two complaining about the eyesore is not the same thing really. You can get used to them in places that don't have outstanding natural scenic value or around cities/rural areas. Just for the record, I am 100% on board with green energy and getting the green new deal enacted. We just need to be cautious where we put them.

[@AdamSmith-gs2dv]

Have you actually been to a wind farm? They are noisy, ugly, take up a ton of space, and kill millions of birds a year. They are also an extremely inefficient way of generating power, we need to focus on improving solar and nuclear power and dump the stupid wind mills

[@RyuuTenno]

Can't say that they're visual pollution, as in my area we rely on hydro power or other sources. But, I feel that they just take up, way too much land, that could be used fpr other things. I mean, comparatively, even a solar plant's foot print is small, and they're required to take up tons of space to get the same job done. Whereas to get the same power levels, a windfarm would have to take something like 2-3x that amount, with an insane amount of dead space between them. I do however think we could refine how they're built to be more efficient, but, that could potentially make them more of an eye sore as a result, so, lots of work would have to be done there.

[@karawaller7368]

It’s crazy. In the past few months I’m noticing a new cell phone tower weekly in Phoenix AZ! It’s scary. Some cell phone towers are hidden in fake palm trees, they look awful!

[@MrEricSir]

Scary that people think "aesthetic harm" is somehow more important than being able to call 911 when there's actual harm going on.

[@kr4zyy]

Actually, when you use the emergency call function on your phone, you will be linked directly to emergency services through the satalite, not through a cellphone tower, should there not be one present at your current location. This is what I heard from somewhere at least

[@MrEricSir]

@@kr4zyy Your location may be sent over GPS to emergency services, but you can't talk over a satellite using a conventional cell phone due to the uplink power requirements. There's a reason satellite phones are the size of a brick.

[@ramblinrem7791]

These tower are way more dangerous than an eye sore.

[@falling_vega1257]

What’s so dangerous about them?

[@taoist32]

Dhshs Dhshssj They kill bees, birds, and other animals. And strong evidence that 5G cell tower EMF will cause damage to human health such as cancer, tinnitus, dizziness, migraine headaches, etc.

[@beavinator420]

They kill people and will kill everyone. Their long time goal without a war

[@falling_vega1257]

What would the motive be for a company to kill its customers? I’m just curious, is there any evidence?

[@randallmurphy6494]

@@falling_vega1257 are you really that stupid!

[@joshix833]

So they are like teamtrees.com, but with the opposite effect.

[@gabe8168]

Opposite effect? I like the way they look tbh (non decorated plain cell tower)

[@insectbite1714]

@@gabe8168 mass surveillance 5G vs natural trees that are real hiding spots

[@businesslp3027]

That’s why the street lights don’t be on. They really towers

[@insectbite1714]

5G mass surveillance behavioral destroying towers the government is hiding

[@Sleepy.C]

Nice tin foil hat

[@insectbite1714]

@@Sleepy.C How is noticing things about the government being power hungry a tin foil hat? Are you ignorant or are you addicted to the media?

[@yotengo2807]

INSECT BITE *-* nice tin foil hat

[@insectbite1714]

@@yotengo2807 THEY ARE TRYING TO REDUCE THE WORLD POPULATION WITH 5 G! Infants in New York City get mysterious symptoms after 5 G gets made. 5 G radiation leaks throgh infants soft spots. The media suddenly stopped reporting on it because they are no longer allowed to! *5 G BEING PUT IN DOCTORS OFFICES AND HIDDEN IN PRESCHOOL PLAYGROUND EQUITMENT IS LIKE PUTTING A BEAR TRAP NEAR A BEAR CAVE* They want to put 5 G where everyone goes, they target weak people with 5 G.

[@sohopedeco]

This sounds so far from my "3rd world" reality. I was pretty surprised to learn cellphone towers are disguised in America. Cellphone towers here in Brazil are usually open for anyone to see. Even underground telephone cables only exist in very few and rich neighborhoods in São Paulo (even most rich neighborhoods have their cables above ground).

[@stupifyingstupedity2112]

Rich people problems.

[@drkatel]

None are camouflaged in my Midwestern US city, but I'd love to see a giant, fake palm tree in the middle of a snow-covered prairie.

[@vaiyt]

NIMBYism is a lot less prevalent in Brazil

[@stepahead5944]

This is also done in China.

[@chelsey8737]

They arent really camaflouged. Its always incredibly obvious that they are towers so really it doesnt do anything

[@Mnrr6131]

Can you guys please do a story on the history of metro north. I love the animations you use and would love to see the style you use when it comes to trains.

[@Omn1nOn1nmO]

Im starting to question most of these peoples sanity and the sanity of the people who allow this to be an acceptable idea

[@jasonmatthew9194]

I love when they put a monopine on a hill that’s all hardwood trees

[@robertswan1585]

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[@jaimeleiva4865]

i think that winds farms and solar panels farms looks great, the way that they mixed with the landscape is beautiful

[@etoatoummhmm6391]

*Wind turbine* "It's ruing the view!!!😠! *gets removed* *Dark gass hovers in the sky filling it up* "uhh, why can't I see the view?🙄" Because know we have to use coal to power our houses

[@-Burb]

Edward Cruz Yeah that’s why we need nuclear plants out in the middle of nowhere, then nobody would ever see them so they wouldn’t block the views, and they would make tons of power.

[@DCsGladiator]

00:38 *Cacti.

[@sneakybean618]

I've seen cell towers my whole life, but never thought they were ugly or anything. I guess I'm just used to them by now. 😂

[@beavinator420]

You should go sit up there next to the panels for a few hours and get recharged itll give u tons of energy!

[@luigi55125]

I find those cell tower trees amusing. It's like something a time traveler from our past visiting us now would say, "it was horrifying, even the trees were metal!".

[@Roblafo]

The title make it sound like we living in Thneedville

[@FourOneOneClan]

The industry term (at least with ATT) is called “stealthing”

[@Lancaster604]

I'd very much rather see a cell tower than an ugly tree.

[@funtimez9012]

That’s y 2020 is fucked we got dumb fucks that want more technology trees provide oxygen what happens when all the trees are gone humans die

[@ghristophermyers666]

@@funtimez9012 my dude there are enough trees

[@mrblue7328]

Brian LO you are a dumbass . You probably voted for hillary

[@meistsyans6526]

@@mrblue7328 i actually think that argument resonates more with trumo.

[@splewy]

There's one of those "mono-pine" style towers near where I live. The funny thing is, it's in FL and looks nothing like any of the local trees. So we have this one random redwood tree looking cell tower sticking up 50 feet above a forest of longleaf pine. It's almost more conspicuous than it would be if it were just an undisguised cell tower.

[@scottyZzzzzzzzzzzzz]

It's not the one on pleasant hill road in south Kissimmee is it?

[@splewy]

Scotty Haha no. I’m up in Jacksonville. I have seen them down in the Kissimmee/Orlando area as well though.

[@dumbmoot1708]

Trying to cover cell towers with trees is an eye sore

[@nimason]

I want to every country this new rule: No destroying 5G towers and no karens

[@portagepete1]

How it looks is Nothing compared to the super high pitch squealing noise it makes 24/7

[@knightwing5169]

Disguised cell towers always look creepy. They fall right in the middle of the uncanny valley.

[@_JayRamsey_]

"What is the value of an unspoiled view?" A flipping shit-ton, in determination of your property value and taxes.

[@junbug1love]

Great information something I've been talking about for a while Is this copyrighted or is the public free to use this and share this on our KZbin channels? Do I have your permission to share this link on my KZbin channel when I make a video?

[@rion7720]

I remebered that time when i was told to be covered with leaves because i was a visual pollution when walking outside my house

[@fi4re]

So... you wore a ghillie suit then?

[@wscottwatson]

I come from an area of the UK that used to be considered very remote (Orkney). Nowadays, when there is not a global pandemic, they have a lot of tourists, cruise ships and all sorts of other visitors. They also produce 125% of their electricity needs from wind farms and that figure is increasing. Apparently, the tourists don't care and ignore them. That's all everyone else needs to do.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

Windmills did the same job as a wind farm.

[@wscottwatson]

@@haruhisuzumiya6650 As far as I have noticed, calling wind turbines "windmills" and wind farms "a lot of windmills" seems to be something done by people who don't like them.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

@@wscottwatson how interesting, considering my stance on windfarms is pro renewable energy, given that eventually we will run out of oil and coal and in some cases contaminate the environment fracking.

[@wscottwatson]

@@haruhisuzumiya6650 I, carefully, did not say that everyone who says "windmill" feels that way. Sometimes, it is just a word. Thank you for being pro renewable energy.

[@Maxime_K-G]

They don't get disguised in Belgium but I like it that way.

[@mpred8606]

in the Philippines one wind farm by the beach is kind of a tourist attraction with souveneirs and miniatures of them

[@Todomo]

wind farms are so gorgeous.

[@N37L]

1:41 That's the junction of Swan Rd and Station Rd, West Drayton, England about 1950

[@DuragAllDay]

Considering the prevalence and popularity of cell towers, coupled with the harm the Telecommunications Act has done, I think we should repeal the act at once.

[@Aa-zp5kn]

What harm? Tell me, please.

[@Techwave911]

It really be vox vs cheddar for interesting YT videos

[@bp_cherryblossomtree723]

Bro. I thought because trees kept growing and covering cell phone towers

[@alaska79]

What I'd like to know is why are high traffic areas still under served by towers? In Cincinnati when the Bengals Stadium is packed. Good luck with a signal even half a mile away. Especially if a concert is going on.

[@tiffanypetty8964]

Take them all down immediately

[@DelmarvaRailProductions]

I think another thing to mention is There’s also can be cell towers hidden in the power line towers and power poles. I’ve seen quite a few of those where I live.

[@cotybunch7627]

I've seen these we should cut it down just like a tree

[@beattune539]

They’re discising them because some people think that the towers are hurting the birds.

[@peggyhendrick542]

And disrupting electrical impulses to the heart....

[@gi70st]

Property. Value. If the cell tower is lowering property value, that is objective and real damage.

[@fuzz2978]

I don't think the complaints were just cause of an eye sore.

[@irenesoriano5704]

If they hid the device in real trees, the trees would die🤫

[@shieldde6209]

Who are you and why are you so wise in the ways of science

[@Down4thecount]

Does anyone know if you can sell space on your property ( like advertise it) to let cell towers be built on it?

[@thermalchill]

So this video has nothing to do with RMF radiation and its consequences on your children's health. Go back to sleep gals. Shepard is watching.

[@AriBenDavid]

The first time I saw a cell tower "camouflaged" as a tree, I exclaimed, "Unnatural tree!!"

[@dariohc6898]

Because people get distracted while having sex in the wild

[@treycranson]

At least they attempted to make them look like trees. In Houston, we have plain gray towers EVERYWHERE!

[@ThePikmania]

I'm sorry for any aesthetic harm I might be causing guys 😔

[@theayeshaerotica]

ThePikmania I literally tell everyone near me this everyday!!!! I’m screaming

[@ThePikmania]

@@theayeshaerotica ahaha :D

[@cloroxbleach5687]

Just invest in a tree costume

[@PLuMUK54]

I love to see wind farms, and if one was near me, then I'd want to be able to see from my windows. There is something so calming about them.

[@cbc6666661]

AHAAHAHHAHAHA OK GET A 5G TOWER AND THEN YOU TELL ME HOW DO YOU DOING IN YOUR FUNERAL

[@umangmalik]

It's not phone towers or windmills I'm worried about, but billboards and ugly buildings are absolutely an eyesore imo and don't provide enough tangible societal benefit to offset their ugliness.

[@noytelinu]

Yeah those at least make sense. Cell towers provide service. Billboards cause crashes and block things for no reason other than advertising. Which is evil.

[@umangmalik]

@@noytelinu couldn't agree more

[@danwilliams9442]

I work on towers for a living. The best monopine I have ever seen was on George Washington’s estate. It looked so good and such camouflaged that we were right in front of it . Being in the profession for about 6 years at the time we were standing right next to it and didn’t recognize it

[@looneyflight]

A few months ago I saw a poorly disguised cell tower. Now I know why. I find it even dumber now.

[@louis9116]

we all know it is to protect them from karens thinking it causes corona

[@tunedskillsz]

100k to disguise a single tower? I could easily disguise a single tower with just a ladder and a rope, 100k for me is life changing!

[@jasonchappell9694]

There is a 100' tower in my home town at the top of a cliff facing town that the city wanted to block. When the city failed to block it, they then tried to require it to be disguised as a pine tree. They failed on that effort as well. First off, while the town had some pine trees, there were absolutely none even close to 100 feet tall. Second, it was a neutral grey tower, on top of a red sandstone cliff, in an area with absolutely no trees (all the trees are actually in town, and were planted by residents and the town itself over the years). A hundred foot pine on top of a red sandstone cliff would look far worse than a neutral grey monopole cell tower, that on most days, you have to squint to even be able to see against the sky. Point is, some people take things to ridiculous, illogical levels, and have no idea what they are talking about. The cell tower ended up being built with no camo, but as part of a compromise, instead of a fence around the site, a ten foot wall, painted the same color as the sandstone cliff, was built, "to prevent people from being able to see the equipment buildings from town".

[@timcampbell4267]

Don't mean to be picky, but the right of a utility to run its facilities through (and above) property isn't "eminent domain". Its a utility easement. We had one in our backyard for electrical and telecom lines. Eminent domain is when a government agency can take private property--at fair market value (theoretically--for the public good or for major improvements like highways.

[@JaybeePenaflor]

Wind farms actually look aesthetic. In the Philippines, the wind farm in Bangui, Ilocos Norte are a tourist attraction for how regularly spaced they are and how the blades spin with the blowing of the wind. The wind farm uses 20 wind turbines, arranged on a single row stretching along a nine-kilometer shoreline off Bangui Bay, facing the West Philippine Sea.

[@b2xd461]

There’s one of these in a town near me and it looks so out of place even far away, mainly because it looks like a fir tree and we don’t have those

[@cocoacoolness]

In the suburbs near i live i never see a tower like those, its super rare. We have quite a lot of trees both within and around all the suburbs, so most towers and anything else which is an eyesore are build off road a bit and on some land where it's surrounded by forest. I only know this because i went for a walk one day and found one.

[@vermin5367]

There's a view in my county that looks out from atop a mountain over the whole town. To the right, following the river 90 degrees there's an old factory. If you walk half a mile in opposite direction of the main view there's a really pretty view of the old factory, no lights, just a huge sophisticated piece of metal way of in the distance, you stand there on an old ski resort which gives the environment a meadow of golden rolling hills kind of look. without the factory it doesn't give it much feeling as it's not the best view compared to the other one, but it gives you real good mixed feelings. it's a piece of art and some day I would love to paint the scene.

[@alexevert5457]

Everyone: that disguise isn't fooling anyone! Me: Yeah, but at least they're trying. You prefer a bare tower?

[@TorpyPony]

Wow, I know the tower by Monument, CO. I remember driving by that thing back in the 90's, never knew it was the first of it's kind tho. You can always tell which one it was because it was 10-15 feet taller than all the other trees, a tall tower covered in foliage. It became a landmark to look out for on the drive back to Colorado Springs from Denver. Still there today if you know when to look west at the right time on.

[@victorryan4870]

That friend scene was sooo loud compared to the rest of the video 🤣

[@ZE308AC]

The camouflage tree towers look hideous.

[@thehackerwolf7118]

Ngl I love to see Windfarms. They oddly look nice to see when passing by.

[@tobeytransport2802]

We have one of these in my town in the UK!!!

[@MrOMarr]

4:50 maybe it’s difficult to correlate negatives impacts on humans to how towers look “aesthetically”, but it is no more difficult than observing the physical and psychological conditions of people living in proximity to those towers in comparison to people that don’t ! My own sister for the longest time thought she’s dying due to her eating/sleeping habits and workload even though she’s in her late 20’s and has drastically improved her health in terms of food/ nutrition and fitness. Turned out everyone in her complex was complaining from the EXACT same symptoms and they realized that it was much less present when they travelled or went back to their parent’s place for holidays. Not long after they realized it was due to this 5G network tower beside their building. Piece of advice for everyone, seriously seriously try to limit your social media usage to maybe KZbin and one other commutation app. And always put your phone on airplane mode or complexity powered off and leave it far from your body when not in use/when asleep. I promise you. I’m just few weeks you’ll feel different.

[@shoopshoop7650]

Glad to see you getting a bit more views lately

[@FogyArts]

The song at 2:17 reminds me of Simply Nailogical! 💅💿

[@AST4EVER]

Why not plant 4 trees around cell towers..??

[@habibainunsyifaf6463]

Normal cellphone tower : pretty normal... Camouflaged cellphone : WTF IS THAT!? WHAT IN GOD'S NAME IS THAT!? A TREE? A POLE? A FRIGGIN PARABOLA RIDDLED CHRISTMAS TREE!?

[@-Burb]

Habib Ainun Syifa Fadhurrohman ITS A BIRD! ITS A PLANE! ITS A... 150ft pine tree cell tower?

[@StevenZephyc]

except none of my family members, my neighbors, or my friends realized that "unusually tall tree" in my neighborhood is a cellphone tower, so I would say it's a pretty good disguise, no matter how painfully obviously it is to a trained eye.

[@Brick-Life]

in australia we dont have leaves on power or communications tower

[@donatsuobrasco3593]

I used to work as a customer care representative for a cell phone carrier (not going to say which) and I would get a lot of calls from people complaining about the towers and them ruining the view, we had a tool in our system that allowed us to check our towers, where they are, and even see them in google maps, most of the time, the people calling us were not even customers and the towers weren't even ours

[@doesobamacare]

This is one reason why, another reason is to hide cell towers locations from competing companies like Verizon would try and hide a towers location so Sprint doesnt try and put one in the same area to get the same signal

[@ArthurHuizar]

Okay, Sharron. The only eyesore I'm worried about is my bank account.

[@jjc5475]

the fact that we get used to it doesn't mean it looks better.

[@apatheticdeity6030]

I personally like the look of a cell phone tower... It sounds odd, but when I was a kid I always imagined them as some sort of alien space array, even now I still can't get that image out of my head. But now them being covered in fake leaves makes me disappointed.