Gadgetory

so when a youtuber reaches 100,000 subscribers YouTube sends them a silver play button as an award congratulations and stories but recently you too started sending out a different style of play button is it made out of the same material is it made out of a cheaper material let's find out so there's a couple differences that we can see right off the bat this one is the one I got about a year and a half ago right here for jerry-rigged everything it's a little bit smaller than this recent one this one's for the what's inside family and then why does yours have a hole cut out of the center of it we already come in and asked for our main channel and I thought how cool would be to take the play out of the YouTube play button so they don't come like this with the triangle out of the middle but we could play out of it and I'm glad you did that because that's the actual sample that we're going to use inside of this electron microscope so if you look at this microscope the inside chamber right here that we put the samples into isn't super huge so it's nice when you have a really small sample you get a better analysis we've already done an elemental analysis of the original silver play button we realize that there is no silver inside of it it's mostly nickel I think it's like 94% nickel but now that we have this play button it looks like the interior is made out of something different something besides nickel and that's what we're here to find out another difference is that this award part right here is written on the glass itself and for the western side family channels nothing's written on the glass it's all printed on the paper inside which is probably more cost-effective so what do you think Dan do you think that they changed the size the frame and the material to be more cost-effective how connected there's a lot more youtubers rating Emilia's ten of getting in under thousands and this is our second channel that we share with and so I'm serious 50 because we brought our whole play button and our silver play button up here and we were able to see what this that machine you told us what it was made of but he was this newer cleaner I think it's going to be different sugar the back of that look at that different where's the other one do you have to go yeah maybe USA at least Haley can we put the head on there literally it's a lot more lightweight than bottle alright let's check them out side by side look at the difference or about the backside mine looks a little bit cleaner and more polished yours is like industrial the you can see the like the injection points from the mold that they used to inject it the chunk of the silver play button we have in this Cup it's sitting in acetone so if it was plastic you already would have been dissolved but luckily it looks like it's still in one piece so we know for sure it's not practic we gotta find out what it's really made of alright so this is the electron microscope inside the electron microscope is where we're going to stick this sample the inside of the silver play button just going to rest it right there on top of that little platform and here inside of the machine this is a view that not very many people get to see is this little platform right here and there's a series of little motors and pulleys and this moves the platform inside so it can sit underneath this little nozzle and that's where we get our images from so this whole machine right here cost about seven hundred thousand dollars the parts that were most interested though is this part right back here this is the energy expressive x-ray spectrometer and it spits out x-rays into here to figure out what the elemental makeup is of whatever sample we have inside the electron microscope is able to differentiate different elements on an elemental level simply by putting the sample inside of this machine and that will tell us exactly what the silver play button is made of so if you listen very closely there's a high-pitched sound and right now it's pulling all of the oxygen all of the air out from inside of this machine because as you know oxygen and all of the other molecules inside of the air have their own elemental makeup and so we have to have zero air inside of the machine to get an accurate reading on the play button itself there are several cameras inside it's electron microscope remember seeing those motors and pulleys it's moving the platform underneath the electron beam we can also raise the sample up and lower it with that same platform so this is a live camera inside of the machine so the simple thing regicide machine if you remember when we put it down inside that little platform the shiny side was facing up as to what that shiny side this is the elemental remember getting from it right here it says that at 92 percent nickel and there's a little bit of ink and a little bit of carbon the carbon is kind of like the impurity stuff you're going to have that with any sample so we can pretty much safely assume that will be at 92 percent nickel and 2 percent zinc for that surface area so now we're going to depressurize this machine we're going to let air back into it take the sample out flip it up on its side and go for a second reading of the internal of the play button so now we're still doing the cross-section and so here we can see the internal section of the play button and then this band right here this layer that's the shiny part the exterior here's another little shot of that and so we know that this part does have the nickel in it but now we want to see what the actual center of the button is made up of I think it's a super interesting because the other play button is all pure nickel the same page to be excited it was this one the scientists that we're working with here who does not want to be on camera which is mine she did she poison has the inside jump so even she used like this in the term of junk is basically denoting that it might be a little active and material is not as pure as what's on the other one so here's the cross-section that we're looking at here and then once we get into this image you can see this is the cross-section this is what the microscope is actually looking at and this is the elemental makeup of each of the elements in that cross-section so zinc is right here which is the majority of the cross-section but as we get close to the edge here we see that's where the nickel is that and this color is representing the nickel we have a little bit of copper and I'm guessing that copper is used to join the nickel to the zinc there's also a little bit of aluminum but we can see here that's only four percent so that's pretty much a non-issue here the majority of it is going to be the zinc in the carbon and we have the zinc and the carbon so the carbon is mixed pretty well on side of that which i think is pretty interesting because when you take carbon and you add it at iron you get steel and that carbon is used to strengthen the iron to make the harder material which you get it steels so I'm guessing what they've done here with this button that added the carbon to the zinc to make it stronger and the play button will last longer that way but carbon is also extremely cheap and so is ink so let's see how much each of these play buttons weigh the silver one from before and the newer silver one and then we can kind of get an idea of how much each of them cost actually makes all right let's go away these things well before we weigh things back make sure you put this on yeah here is my silver play button this is the original one we're going to go ahead and drop it onto the scale and it looks like we're at one third of a pound two point three pounds and add on the western side family channel we're at 0.38 plus right on 0.41 so it's a little bit heavier so to recap this is my play button this is the western side family play button mine is made out of nickel which is about $5 per pound if you're just doing like the raw weight of the middle this one is made out of zinc and carbon which ends up being about 25 cents per pound just the raw metal weight to put that into perspective last year alone there are twenty four thousand people that hit a hundred thousand subscribers so and not everybody redeems their awards but if they did YouTube would be saving around thirty two thousand dollars a year at that same rate just by making this button over that button so while mine is bigger it's not as expensive as this one a dollar sixty I think is what we map that out to in about twenty five cents not very expensive considering how much this means to every youtuber that actually hits the award but by making this button less expensive they're saving around thirty two thousand dollars a year according to our estimates and remember those numbers are just for the metal weight itself we're not talking about like the manufacturing cost because like this button where it's finished on both the front and the back like a shiny night like finish this button is not finished it all on the back it has that raw industrial feel to it which actually saves a lot of money if we look really closely on the back you can see the actual injection points for the mold so they didn't bother to finish that at all which makes sense because no one's ever going to see the back of the play button besides is the first weirder for the only thing channels are going to open these things up one thing I really like according to social blade there were 25 channels a day in 2015 that would hit our Nadal subscribers in 2016 that was 44 channels a day so almost doubling that number and so every single year you're seeing more and more people that are becoming subscribers on YouTube that are gaining subscribers even though YouTube can now make probably about five or six play buttons for the cost of one of these it's still the most important part is that they actually are giving away an award for hitting a milestone I think they are the only social media platform that actually rewards their creators when they hit these milestones and I am so grateful for like we cook our gold play button around the world like we really are grateful for the award it's it's prominently in our office really proud of the achievement and really thankful for all of our subscribers that actually choose to subscribe like a hundred thousand or a million those are a lot of people that have subscribed I'm certainly grateful for it like it's more than the metal that's inside of it it really is the subscribers like you guys for subscribing to our channel it means so much I'm never going to melt it down because I love my award as well I know a lot of you guys that have watched what's inside even one time are looking at this going dan how did you cut that so perfectly it wasn't me I promise but it was really interesting later we cut it then is not an expert with tools but if you want to watch the video where he cuts this open I will link that at the end of this one and I do appreciate you guys a ton if you haven't subscribed to my channel yet go ahead hit that subscribe button below I will link dance channels the end of this one as well thanks for watching I'll see you around