If you've ever looked up any kind of real estate related video on Youtube, I'm sure you've eventually seen this kind of video recommended to you:
Here are some of the channels I found specializing in this genre of video:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheSurvival/videos
According to the article below, these videos were supposedly faked. The article claims that these "primitive" constructions are build by modern construction companies, using modern materials and building methods. After they are built, usually through illegal logging, the video misrepresenting their construction is uploaded to Youtube where it hits millions of views, with all of the adsense money going to the channel owners. The constructions themselves are left behind in the wilderness, where they just become a stinking stagnant water pool of a mosquito trap or even an actual trap for wandering wildlife.
Here are some of the channels I found specializing in this genre of video:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheSurvival/videos
According to the article below, these videos were supposedly faked. The article claims that these "primitive" constructions are build by modern construction companies, using modern materials and building methods. After they are built, usually through illegal logging, the video misrepresenting their construction is uploaded to Youtube where it hits millions of views, with all of the adsense money going to the channel owners. The constructions themselves are left behind in the wilderness, where they just become a stinking stagnant water pool of a mosquito trap or even an actual trap for wandering wildlife.
The bizarre genre of Asian men seemingly building extravagant buildings in forests has amassed billions of views on YouTube - earning vast sums for the channels.
However, aerial drone footage from Siem Reap, Cambodia, captures large teams of builders working on the projects. While on the ground after they have finished, the dog houses, swimming pools and slides are left to rot with stagnant water and plastic bags strewn across the abandoned building sites - causing a risk to local wildlife.
Pictures show the young lads with cameras rigged up and celebrating receiving awards from YouTube, owned by Google's parent company Alphabet.
Some viewers have even complained the videos are racist by pandering to a stereotype of developing inhabitants living in the jungle grunting while they scrape huts together with their hands.
While in a country where deforestation is one of the worst in the world, environmentalists believe the videos are accelerating the decline of habitat and creating dangerous conditions for wildlife.
A cameraman who worked on one of the channels revealed how at least eight builders work on the projects and use modern tools including diggers, power generators and electric saws.
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A civil engineer from watching the video said the ‘earth cement was incredibly fake' and there are ‘lots of signs of human stupidity'.
He commented: ‘Even in ancient times, nobody would be so stupid as to make pools without drainage and leave still water, especially in the tropics because of the insects it would generate.'
They said that the videos were ‘fake, dangerous and misleading'.
He added: ‘They barely show any survival skills, as the construction methodologies involve the use of modern materials disguised as ‘primitive'.'
How primitive survival videos are faked and leave horrific pollution in Cambodian jungle
Revealing footage shows how money-spinning jungle survival videos are faked - leaving a trail of destruction and scarred landscape. The bizarre genre of Asian men seemingly building extravagant buildings in forests has amassed billions of views on YouTube - earning vast sums for the channels...www.newsflare.com
