History WebVideo / HydraulicPressChannel

* FunetikAksent: Lauri's thick Finnish accent is particularly infamous. Expect there to be comments on his videos quoting him that replicate his unique pronunciation. "Hoodraulik press", "So ve must deal with it", "Vat da fak", the list goes on.

The [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcMDMoNu66_1Hwi5-MeiQgw Hydraulic Press Channel]] is a channel about crushing things with a 100-ton hydraulic press, following in a long tradition of very simple [=YouTube=] channels about destroying things. It is based in Tampere, Finland, and is hosted by Lauri Vuohensilta and his wife Anni. Lauri works in a machining shop owned by his family, and the press is among one of many pieces of equipment in the shop.

!! These tropes are very dangerous and may attack at any time, so we must deal with them:

* CaptainObvious: Lauri's decision to describe what just happened in very obvious, broken-English terms makes up a lot of the channel's comedy.
--> '''Lauri:''' (while filming a rollercoaster ride using his [=GoPro=]) "I think my filming is bit shaky!"

* LearntEnglishFromWatchingTelevision: Lauri mentioned in "Hydraulic press channel Q&A-video" that while he had to take English classes in school, he was a poor student and mostly ended up learning English from English-language video games, TV shows, and films that he downloaded from the internet when he was younger. In a comment on one video, he specifically identifies ''Series/TopGear'' and ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' as assisting in his English-learning journey.

* MadeOfExplodium: You'd be surprised as to how explosive things can get when crushed under a hundred tons. In particular, completely normal paper explodes with infamous violence, to the point pressing a dictionary resulted in the blast shield being knocked down and a wrecked camera.

* RipTailoring: In "How much can you lift with clothes?", Lauri and Anni test the tensile strength of a hoodie, t-shirt, and pair of jeans by pulling them apart with the forklift that Lauri uses for his business. The t-shirt and hoodie actually end up tearing in a wearable way, with the t-shirt coming away with two large holes in the side and back, and the hoodie mostly [[FashionableAsymmetry losing the right sleeve]] so you can "show off your guns", as Lauri puts it. Although he jokes that they'll be hitting Paris Fashion Week with the shirt as Anni twirls around with it over the top she was already wearing, several commenters pointed out that a torn, oversized t-shirt like that would actually work in a real outfit with fashionably torn jeans and a brightly colored top underneath.

-->''"And for today's extra content, we have this stinger. It is extremely dangerous, and may attack at any time. So we must deal with it"''

* VocalDissonance: Before Lauri and Anni started showing their faces on camera, most viewers thought they were at least middle-aged from their voices. As of 2016, Lauri is 30, and Anni is 26.

!! These tropes are very dangerous and may attack at any time:

!! Tropes depicted on the Hydraulic Press Channel include:

HPC quickly skyrocketed to prominence in October 2015 when the video aptly titled "Can you fold paper more than 7 times with hydraulic press" made it to the front page of Reddit and quickly went viral. The channel gained over a million subscribers in the span of two months, has attracted media attention from around the world, and gotten a number of sponsorships. As several articles have pointed out, what sets HPC apart from other channels about destruction and the hordes of hydraulic press imitation channels that followed in its wake is Lauri and Anni themselves. Lauri has a very thick Finnish accent and gives ridiculously deadpan, CaptainObvious commentary of the events, while Anni cackles at her husband and the destruction.

* MaleGaze: PlayedForLaughs in the Beyond the Press video "Silicone boobs in vacuum chamber and under hydraulic press"- the premise of the video is that in light of the couple's discovery that only men watch the channels, Anni used her [=YouTube=] revenue to buy new breasts. She spends the first part of the video prominently displaying her 'new boobs' and even makes sure to do this for the video thumbnail, which are really just large silicone inserts that she's stuffed into her top.

HPC quickly skyrocketed to prominence in October 2015 when the video aptly titled "Can you fold paper more than 7 times with hydraulic press" made it to the front page of Reddit and quickly went viral. The channel gained over a million subscribers in the span of two months, has attracted media attention from around the world, and has done a number of sponsored videos. As a number of articles have pointed out, what sets HPC apart from other channels about destruction and the hordes of hydraulic press imitation channels that followed in its wake is Lauri and Anni themselves. Lauri has a very thick Finnish accent and gives ridiculously deadpan, CaptainObvious commentary of the events, while Anni cackles at her husband and the destruction.

HPC quickly skyrocketed to prominence in October 2015 when the video aptly titled "Can you fold paper more than 7 times with hydraulic press" made it to the front page of Reddit and quickly went viral. The channel gained over a million subscribers in the span of two months, has attracted media attention from around the world, and has done a number of sponsorships. As a number of articles have pointed out, what sets HPC apart from other channels about destruction and the hordes of hydraulic press imitation channels that followed in its wake is Lauri and Anni themselves. Lauri has a very thick Finnish accent and gives ridiculously deadpan, CaptainObvious commentary of the events, while Anni cackles at her husband and the destruction.

* PoirotSpeak: Realistically inverted, and deliberately PlayedForLaughs by Lauri himself, particularly with his English pronunciation. He admitted in "Hydraulic press channel Q&A-video" that he knows his accent is part of what sells his channel, so if he realizes later on that he's been pronouncing a word he doesn't use all the time incorrectly (such as pronouncing 'hydraulic' as 'hoodraulik') he'll deliberately keep pronouncing it wrong in future videos because it's funny. Anni naturally considers this hilarious.
** On two separate occasions, he kept referring to pineapples as 'ananas', which is 'pineapple' in most non-English languages.

They also started a secondary channel, called [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCveB47lgzZJ1WOf4XYVJNBw Beyond the Press]], where they post videos about whatever isn't about crushing things with their press- vloggy-type videos about their lives, other destructive stunts, various outings, preparation work for pressing videos, and footage of real work done as part of the shop's business.

* LearntEnglishFromWatchingTelevision: Lauri mentioned in "Hydraulic press channel Q&A-video" that while he had to take English classes in school, he was a poor student and mostly ended up learning English from English-language video games, TV shows, and films that he downloaded from the internet when he was younger.

* PoirotSpeak: Realistically inverted, and deliberately PlayedForLaughs with Lauri, particularly with his English pronunciation. He admitted in "Hydraulic press channel Q&A-video" that he knows his accent is part of what sells his channel, so if he realizes later on that he's been pronouncing a word he doesn't use all the time incorrectly (such as pronouncing 'hydraulic' as 'hoodraulik') he'll deliberately keep pronouncing it wrong in future videos because it's funny. Anni naturally considers this hilarious.

* PronounTrouble: As the channel is hosted by native speakers of Finnish, which has no grammatical gender of any kind- there's no 'he'/'his' or 'she'/'hers' equivalent, only 'it' or singular 'they' -this comes up on occasion. Lauri's spoken English is not quite as good as his wife's, so he sometimes forgets which English pronouns apply to which gender. Once, he accidentally referred to his wife as a 'he', resulting in lots of confused comments on the video wondering who he was referring to.

(they laugh a bit)

--> '''Lauri:''' "...My wife choose-ed this because I cannot pronounce the name of this animal, and it is... skwurl."

* StoutStrength: Both Lauri and Anni are competitive powerlifters, and Lauri has been working in his family's machining business as a day job since he was thirteen. As a result, they're both quite stocky and strong. Their wedding photo even shows them powerlifting together!

* PronounTrouble: As the channel is hosted by native speakers of Finnish, which has no grammatical gender of any kind- there's no 'he'/'his' or 'she'/'hers' equivalent, only 'it' or singular 'they' -this comes up on occasion. Lauri's spoken English is not quite as good as his wife's, so he sometimes forgets which English pronouns apply to which gender. Once, he accidentally referred to his wife as a 'he', resulting in lots of confused comments on the video

* PronounTruble: As the channel is hosted by native speakers of Finnish, which has no grammatical gender of any kind- there's no 'he'/'his' or 'she'/'hers' equivalent, only 'it' or singular 'they' -this comes up on occasion. Lauri's spoken English is not quite as good as his wife's, so he sometimes forgets which English pronouns apply to which gender. Once, he accidentally referred to his wife as a 'he', resulting in lots of confused comments on the video

** During a channel collaboration with the Dudesons, as an extreme example, a [=GoPro=] was crushed while it was filming and hooked up to a screen.

The [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcMDMoNu66_1Hwi5-MeiQgw Hydraulic Press Channel]] is a channel about crushing things with a 10-ton hydraulic press, following in a long tradition of very simple [=YouTube=] channels about destroying things. It is based in Tampere, Finland, and is hosted by Lauri Vuohensilta and his wife Anni. Lauri works in a machining shop owned by his family, and the press is among one of many pieces of equipment in the shop.

* CameraAbuse: Lauri has a slow-motion camera and a [=GoPro=] set up inside his press. Whenever the videos involve dust or liquid flying around, the camera will invariably get hit. On one notable occasion, when a large Finnish-English dictionary was pressed, the book exploded, knocking his slowmo camera onto the ground, and his blast shield straight off its mounts, destroying his main camera.

* FreudWasRight: Played for laughs in "Crushing metal pipes with hydraulic press". After an episode of crushing three pipes flat, the clay animal crushed as the extra content is a rooster.
--> '''Lauri:''' "And for today's extra content, we have this small cock."
--> ''(Anni laughs)''
--> '''Lauri:''' "Anni, don't laugh at the small cock."

* FunetikAccent: Lauri's thick Finnish accent is particularly infamous. Expect there to be comments on his videos quoting him that replicate his unique pronunciation. "Hoodraulik press", "So ve must deal with it", "Vat da fak", the list goes on.