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when I first got my silver play button for passing 100,000 subscribers my first thought was is this real silver is the gold play button real gold if only I knew someone who was willing to destroy their play buttons I can help you with that so Dan is from the YouTube channel what's inside and Dan what in the world drove you to destroy your buttons it was a tough decision but so we do we cut stuff open for our channel so when we got the silver play button we thought that would be a really funny thing if we cut it in half and then hung it back up and it actually signifies our channel pretty well but then after we did that and we marched on to a million subscribers I was a little nervous to do it but we took it on a trip around the world so it was a fun trip and we cut it open in case you nice that's office so it was worth it but it honestly was a little sad cutting in half where did you take this again so we took this thing to China Japan Guam Australia Dubai the Netherlands Ireland England Paris New York Austin Texas it just put this button like 11 pounds in my backpack the entire time well I know one place at this button has not been and that's inside of this electron microscope what do you say we toss it in here and see what it's actually made of it's funny because if I think think I have you think that I would be okay with it but just as long as it doesn't like turn it purple or like I'm gonna I can't promise anything but let's do it so here's the back of the play button this is the gold one and it looks like there's just a series of Phillips head screws all along the back and the back is made of wood and then we got a wood panel right here and then a metal plate on the outside that's it yeah now you've got these four screws right there but you want to take oh there's even more sorry there's more screws you got a screed about okay lift it up and then the top that hold onto the back so it doesn't fall out but because right now you just got the glass on this side but basically just have to take this panel off there you go now you got it hold the frame that's it Will's our gold button right there it's super dirty I don't even think I washed it before I put it back in with all the fingerprints on it there it is this thing is so heavy jeez I've dirty looks like you cut it right along that screw line there all right so here this is the electron microscope part of this microscope you can see the electron beams comes out of that little silver thing right there and then what tells us the makeup of the actual item inside it's this part right here and this is the energy dispersive x-ray spectrometry gizmo and that tells us what the play button is actually made up of well let's put it in here and we are good to go all right down your play button is now inside of the machine how you feel so don't turn your back this is legit here a little purpose inside of this machine there's a vacuum and it's sucking all of the air out because an electron microscope can't work in normal air there needs to be zero air for it to function and this is a live feed of different cameras inside of the machine so this is top down you can see some kind of that arrow of the play button there this is a side profile and this is a zoomed in shot of the play button itself and then on this screen we have a readout of what actually the play button is made up of so we have this nickel right here and we also have a little bit of gold there's a huge chunk of nickel and then we have the gold right below that at 15% and then we have the zinc in the copper and zinc in the copper is kind of making up like a brass alloy but on the surface most of it is nickel and the gold you can see here that it's evenly dispersed across the button all of the nickel and the gold or mixed together or don't test in the top part of it we just barely pulled out a machine and rum a little bit surprised that it's not I didn't see as much gold as I thought there would be because right here show them on the bottom there it says 24 karat gold plated if you can see it just right there and 24 karat gold is known as pure gold 100% gold or 99.9% gold so so let's flip it over we'll stick the back in there and we'll see if it's plated on the back the backs not as shiny you can see on there it's just I was just not as shiny check this check the front out it's shiny it's glossy the back is just has these scratches on it and it's flat so might be honest oh and then look at this you can see the shine comes around the edge right here but then it's not on this part so yeah let's find out right now inside the machine we have the back of the gold play button here and this is the zoomed in portion of that button and if we go over here to the graph of the composition we still see the nickel and then here we have the gold and there's actually a larger percentage of gold on the back of the button than we saw on the front of the button which is very interesting the machine we're getting like a lot of different readings inside of it we're getting nickel we're getting gold or getting copper we're getting one other thing and we're trying to like decide whether it's just on the exterior or the interior the only problem with that is is that the button is too big for the machine so there's no way to get a reading of this cross-section inside of that thing so I'm going to try to shave a little bit off and see if we can get enough of a sample to make it work so I just took a small fragment from that little screw hole there we're putting it on this tape right here so we'll go on the machine that particular fragment is from the center of the gold play button right here so we'll be able to see what's inside of the button instead of just on the surface there's that itty-bitty sample inside of the big machine and we are ready to go here's the side profile of it and we got the beam coming down from the top samples here this is the super zoomed in electron microscope image of it so you can see all the Tail if we come over here to this monitor it's got the center so the inside of the gold play button is copper and zinc and there's actually no gold on the inside so we know that's all part of the coating the two most common elements on the surface of the play button nickel and gold are not inside of the button so now we're going to check and see what the silver button is made of inside of the Machine it goes so with the silver play button inside the Machine you can see right here is the top-down view and we have the side cross section and this is the magnified image of the play button and over here we have this reading which is actually 100% nickel on the surface of that play button so it might be something a little bit different underneath the surface but the surface is 100% nickel so as I'm going to move it on a scratch on the silver play button and if we look over here it actually has some copper inside of it as well so if we jump down here the copper is 6.3% and the nickel is 93 so nickel is definitely 100% the surface of the silver play button but it looks like it's an alloy underneath with a little bit of copper added to it so I was little bit surprised that there wasn't as much gold as I thought there was going to be I mean to YouTube's credit it 24-karat does rub off easily and I traveled to probably six different continents with it so it could some of it could have rubbed off that's true because in like your pocket in your backpack and everything like that and also on the front of the button where it's all smooth and glossy there was 15% gold and like 85% nickel but on the back of the button where there was those ridges it was actually more gold and I think that's because you know wouldn't rub off as easily probably I mean we did do the part which I like that we did it we took off that small speck they didn't shouldn't have been 24 karat gold plated and - you got to give YouTube credit because they could easily send these things out because the metal that they send looks like gold already but they actually plated these gold play buttons because we saw in the front the back and we didn't see it in the middle so it's on there it's real gold there the gold play button is gold which is cool one other variable that we haven't about yet as well is that the electron microscope when it looks at the surface of something it's actually penetrating the surface just a little bit so that also might be while there's some variance between the gold and the nickel on the gold play button so I think would be really interesting to see actually how these things are made and what the process is for getting the gold on them yeah can you imagine like going into a building where they make these things and you just have like a pile of like hundreds of gold buttons everywhere it'd be so cool that'd be pretty fun to see I would just grab one before I had a million subscribers I would just try to find the diamond play buttons and take that home so I can cut it open that will get it early and if you take a look back here we have both the gold play button and the silver play button Zak just stuffed the silver play button in here he has no respect for it Oh Matt take a look at it he put it in backwards you see that it's a rewind button now that's what happens and speaking of the silver play button it's not actually silver and there was no silver inside of it which you know was fine it's not plated silver or anything the exterior was pure nickel and the inside was a nickel copper blend we got this in May of 2016 before we took our trip around the world with it and what I've seen is that the buttons that are coming out now are a little bit different so they've changed the gold play button a little so Zak's gonna get it soon you guys are helping him he is on the way gained like 300,000 subscribers in the last couple of months Wow it's gonna it's gonna come soon enough and as soon as you get yours I want to test that one out see if it's the same 24 karat plated gold YouTube probably watching this right now and they're like oh when we send Zak his let's put a little bit more gold on that I'm fine with that give me as much gold as you want if you want to see how well traveled this gold play button is and where some of the gold might have rubbed off go ahead and click this video right here and it will take you to Dan's channel where he actually cut it open with Casey Neistat it was once in a lifetime experience pretty cool video so I'm excited zhuzi it yours let us know if you want us to cut it open I think I'm gonna keep mine in the frame and I'm gonna keep it facing the right direction if you change your mind just see okay thanks stuff for watching I'll see you around see you guys