History WebVideo / HydraulicPressChannel

* 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.

* MadeOfExplodium: You'd be surprised how explosive things can get when crushed under a hundred tons. In particular, completely normal paper explodes with infamous violence[[note]]It's mainly thanks to the static friction of the paper building up potential energy before it eventually gives and releases said energy[[/note]], to the point that a dictionary knocked the blast shield right off its mounts and destroyed their camera. It also took out one of the hydraulic lines for the press.

* MadeOfExplodium: You'd be surprised how explosive things can get when crushed under a hundred tons. In particular, completely normal paper explodes with infamous violence[[note]]It's mainly thanks to the static friction of the paper building up potential energy before it eventually gives and releases said energy[[/note]], to the point that a dictionary knocked the blast shield right off its mounts and destroyed their camera.

* MadeOfExplodium: You'd be surprised how explosive things can get when crushed under a hundred tons. In particular, completely normal paper explodes with infamous violence, to the point that a dictionary knocked the blast shield right off its mounts and destroyed their camera.

* TonkaTough: In "Crushing Nokia 3310 with hydraulic press", the famous phone was unfortunately crushed flat, subverting this trope. Commenters jokingly insist that the phone must have been defective, or that Lauri's press must in fact be made out of Nokia 3310s itself as well as the crushed phone being defective.

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 ([[http://vuohensilta.fi/ Vuohensilta Engineering Works]]), and the press is just one of many pieces of equipment in the shop.

* Trope2000: Every new tool they make for the press is named "[Thing] 5 Million". With second generation versions of any given machine gaining a "[Thing] 10 Million" moniker.

** Many things are dubbed "The X 5000000", such as their Extruder 5000000, or their water heater 5000000, consisting of a drum over a fire with a cutout on top for the steam.

* Main/{{Catchphrase}}: Particularly in earlier days, objects that were about to be crushed were usually introduced as being "extremely dangerous, so we must deal with it!". This also lead to some MemeticMutation.

* KindheartedCatLover: Not a video goes by without someone commenting on how ridiculously hardcore Lauri and Anni's lives are- they enjoy mountain biking, powerlifting, and heavy metal, and Lauri has been working in machining since he was thirteen. And he and Anni have two very cute cats who always like checking out what's going on whenever there's a video inside their house.

* NoOSHAComplies: Inverted. Lauri and Anni go to pretty extensive lengths to ensure safety in all of their videos, and usually operate the hydraulic presses from behind thick safety glass and other barriers. Many of the Beyond The Press videos show the various safety measures used in doing their more explosive or dangerous demonstrations.

* 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 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.

--> '''Lauri:''' "...My wife choose-ed this because I cannot pronounce the name of this animal, and it is... skworl."
--> (they laugh a bit)
--> '''Lauri:''' "...Or [[BuffySpeak tree-climbing rat with large tail]]."

* Trope2000: Every new tool they make for the press is named "[Thing] 5 Million".

They have also contributed (Mostly Lauri's voice commentary) to the creation of a MobilePhoneGame: [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fi.LinnamaEntertainment.hydraulicpress&hl=en Hydraulic Press Pocket]]. Many of the following tropes can be found there as well.

!! Welcome to the Hydraulic Press Channel, today we will be crushing our tropes. And here we go!:

* TheComicallySerious: Lauri frequently laughs and shows off his childish glee when things explode or respond in fun ways and he smiles often when on camera, but in most of his pressing footage, his usual tone of voice sounds very deadpan and serious to most Americans, where 45% of his channel's views come from.

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 ([[http://vuohensilta.fi/ Konepaja Vuohensilta]]), and the press is just one of many pieces of equipment in the shop.

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 just one of many pieces of equipment in the shop.

* SquashedFlat: Squashing things flat is, of course, the name of HPC's game.

* DagwoodSandwich: Lauri crushes one in an attempt to make it small enough to eat.

* TheHyena: In most videos, Anni can be heard laughing in the background while her husband deadpan-ly describes current events.

* 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 (in "V.I.P. day for HPC") he accidentally referred to his wife as a 'he', resulting in lots of confused comments on the video wondering who he was referring to.

* GirlyRun: In "Exploding surströmming and other canned foods", Lauri filmed himself adding the titular can of surströmming to a campfire, and then running away, flailing his arms.

They have also contributed (Mostly Lauri's voice commentary) to the creation of a mobile game: [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fi.LinnamaEntertainment.hydraulicpress&hl=en Hydraulic Press Pocket]]. Many of the following tropes can be found there as well.