{"id":276123,"date":"2021-07-23T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/?p=276123"},"modified":"2021-08-05T15:45:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T20:45:01","slug":"watching-people-clean-filthy-video-game-consoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/watching-people-clean-filthy-video-game-consoles\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes, I just wanna watch people clean up filthy game consoles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>We all have those niche-within-a-niche videos we&#8217;re super into, and clean consoles are mine<\/h2>\n<p>In our algorithm-dominated world, I feel like I&#8217;m constantly being bombarded with stuff I&#8217;d really prefer not to see: premature spoiler-filled videos on YouTube, &#8220;funny&#8221; topics on Twitter, and an ocean full of gnarly shark pics on Instagram even though I keep telling the app how uninterested I am. But sometimes, the algorithms push a hyper-focused category of niche content in front of you that you end up digging. And sometimes, I just want to watch a person calmy, soothingly clean up and restore old video game consoles.<\/p>\n<p>I put minimal effort into tidying up my controllers and consoles \u2014 I rarely, if ever, pop &#8217;em up open \u2014 and yet I can&#8217;t seem to get enough of exactly that activity on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>For the same reason that millions of people are into home renovation shows, there&#8217;s an odd satisfaction to watching a dusty, sticky, grimy, and sometimes even bug-infested console get a good scrubbing. I&#8217;m not sure how these machines ever reach such a disgusting state \u2014 can we blame the kids? Let&#8217;s blame the kids! \u2014 but the filthier they are, the more satisfying the cleanup process. (From a safe distance, of course.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I Restored This Yellowed Junk Nintendo 64 - Retro N64 Console Restoration\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L232PR3_5JA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yellowed and Dirty Playstation One Restoration\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4HBr8NE17oc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I Bought 9 Broken PS Vita&#039;s - Let&#039;s FIX Them!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eYRlXGE7-z4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You know you&#8217;ve become obsessed when you no longer skip the &#8220;boring&#8221; parts.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a point to make with this article other than to say 1) these types of videos are relaxing and 2) I&#8217;ve been wanting to say something about them for a while now. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DrQqajtiRt4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I just think they&#8217;re neat<\/a>. Some of you surely fix your own hardware, and that&#8217;s neat too. Heck, do you get a kick out of restoring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/the-hidden-joys-of-buying-used\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">marker- and sticker-filled cartridges<\/a>? Same. Big same.<\/p>\n<p>On some level, I bet you can relate \u2014 even if you don&#8217;t get my &#8220;watching a gloved man scrub consoles&#8221; pastime, perhaps you&#8217;ve got a different niche-within-a-niche interest you like to unwind with, whether that&#8217;s on YouTube or elsewhere. What are we missing?<\/p>\n<p>While not remotely gaming-related, the other day I was shown a video of a guy who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=smKzSEhGeLQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hatched chicks<\/a> with a hand-made incubator built from a fruit storage bowl, and I thought &#8220;Okay, it&#8217;s time. I&#8217;ve gotta write this silly blog already. I can&#8217;t be alone on this one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><sub>[Image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8hGGVW_mGEI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Odd Tinkering<\/a>]<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all have those niche-within-a-niche videos we&#8217;re super into, and clean consoles are mine In our algorithm-dominated world, I feel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":276148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"article_type":"","ub_ctt_via":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[468,343,19409,19459,172,523,19108],"internal-label":[],"invoiceable_action":[],"article_type":[],"coauthors":[{"id":10,"display_name":"Jordan Devore","user_nicename":"jordan-devore"}],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Dirty-PlayStation-2-Slim.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080","author_info":{"display_name":"Jordan Devore","author_link":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/author\/jordan-devore\/"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Dirty-PlayStation-2-Slim.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276123"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278076,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276123\/revisions\/278076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276123"},{"taxonomy":"internal-label","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal-label?post=276123"},{"taxonomy":"invoiceable_action","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/invoiceable_action?post=276123"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=276123"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=276123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}