Photonicinduction is MIA

[Psi]

So it seems Photonicinduction has closed his youtube account. None of his videos are available any more.

If you're unaware who/what Photonicinduction was, it was a youtube channel run buy a crazy guy who did all sorts of cool stuff with high voltage, blowing stuff up etc.

Some of you may remember the brick in the washing machine video which was one of his first videos.

[Flavour Flave]

Love to know the reason why?
 Health and Safety? 

[8086]

"I ain't 'avin it!"

[mikeselectricstuff]

This may or may not be genuine :
https://www.youtube.com/user/Thisisphoton

"Chaps, I closed the account for numerous reasons of my own free will, I never received a single account strike and I was not hacked.
The account is not recoverable, the vids are gone forever.
I was hating youtube more and more on a daily basis, I do need to do a final vid just to explain a bit mo..."

[mikeselectricstuff]

[IanB]

I have to say I never quite "got" Photonicinduction. Doing crazy stuff just for the sake of craziness didn't really grab me. If there was some hint of a purpose or educational element to it I think it would have been more interesting. To give an example, making a crowbar glow red hot was amusing, but would have been so much better with a description of the transformer that did it and a measurement of the current needed to make that happen.

As it was I glanced at a few of the videos but never felt any desire to watch more of them. So my reaction is kind of "meh..."

[Flavour Flave]

I have to say I never quite "got" Photonicinduction. Doing crazy stuff just for the sake of craziness didn't really grab me. If there was some hint of a purpose or educational element to it I think it would have been more interesting. To give an example, making a crowbar glow red hot was amusing, but would have been so much better with a description of the transformer that did it and a measurement of the current needed to make that happen.

As it was I glanced at a few of the videos but never felt any desire to watch more of them. So my reaction is kind of "meh..."

Washing machine was seminal though. Light hearted entertainment. Very funny.

[IanB]

Washing machine was seminal though. Light hearted entertainment. Very funny.

My washing machine tried to do that all by itself once, when the concrete ballast cracked and became detached from the drum. Did you know the reason washing machines don't go flying across the room on the spin cycle is because they contain a dirty great lump of concrete?

[Uncle Vernon]

I have to say I never quite "got" Photonicinduction. Doing crazy stuff just for the sake of craziness didn't really grab me. If there was some hint of a purpose or educational element to it I think it would have been more interesting.

Maybe it's the cynic in me, but I got the distinct impression there was an aim of becoming the next viral hit, and visions of a commercial return. He may have missed that mark, while he probably attracted reasonable numbers, cheap thrills don't exactly attract loyaltyand the content I'd imagine would have made advertisers nervous enough to say not thanks even if the numbers were big.
Those vids were a cut above those from the the average airbag in a microwave loons, and some of the props would not have been cheap, my guess is the vids were becoming a financial liability.

my reaction is kind of "meh..."

Pretty much, seen one spark, each next one loses a touch of wow. A bit like each years NYE fireworks supposed to be so much better I'm still baffled how you tell. With crazy person videos often less is better,

[Flavour Flave]

Washing machine was seminal though. Light hearted entertainment. Very funny.

My washing machine tried to do that all by itself once, when the concrete ballast cracked and became detached from the drum. Did you know the reason washing machines don't go flying across the room on the spin cycle is because they contain a dirty great lump of concrete?

Thinking about it now yeah thats makes sense that it needs some ballast. But it is inspired nuttiness or geniunuttiness to stick it in the washing machine.

[Flavour Flave]

I have to say I never quite "got" Photonicinduction. Doing crazy stuff just for the sake of craziness didn't really grab me. If there was some hint of a purpose or educational element to it I think it would have been more interesting.

Maybe it's the cynic in me, but I got the distinct impression there was an aim of becoming the next viral hit, and visions of a commercial return. He may have missed that mark, while he probably attracted reasonable numbers, cheap thrills don't exactly attract loyaltyand the content I'd imagine would have made advertisers nervous enough to say not thanks even if the numbers were big.
Those vids were a cut above those from the the average airbag in a microwave loons, and some of the props would not have been cheap, my guess is the vids were becoming a financial liability.

He did it for a laugh and it got out of hand.
I did wonder how could he afford those vacuum cleaners etc.. that he destroyed. But he did infer in that last video that he was getting advertising revenue and was putting it back in to his channel.

[metalphreak]

Finally finished off that camera. 

[hacklordsniper]

Great way to reflect the laser beam back in your eye

[aokman]

wow im quite shocked...i went to check his feed today and everything is gone he was great for information and light entertainment. He also answered those questions that people always wondered.

[EEVblog]

Wow.
Both of the video explaining it have been removed too, can anyone summerise what he said?
Giving up the game I can understand, but removing all your content you worked so hard to produce?, that I can't really understand.
If it's a Youtube hatred thing, ok, but why not upload the content somewhere else first and transition your audince over?

He'd just hit 20,000 subs too and was bigger than my channel.

Dave.

[IanB]

Wow.
Both of the video explaining it have been removed too, can anyone summerise what he said?
Giving up the game I can understand, but removing all your content you worked so hard to produce?, that I can't really understand.
If it's a Youtube hatred thing, ok, but why not upload the content somewhere else first and transition your audince over?

He'd just hit 20,000 subs too and was bigger than my channel.

Dave.

He basically said the whole thing started out as a bit of fun that had got out of hand and was taking over his life, there was relentless pressure to out-do the previous videos, he wasn't enjoying it anymore, people were copying his ideas for commercial gain, he was fed up with the haters, and he wanted to move on and get a life beyond YouTube.

[Uncle Vernon]

He basically said the whole thing started out as a bit of fun that had got out of hand and was taking over his life, there was relentless pressure to out-do the previous videos, he wasn't enjoying it anymore, people were copying his ideas for commercial gain, he was fed up with the haters, and he wanted to move on and get a life beyond YouTube.

Wasn't there something in there about finding a wife too?

[IanB]

Wasn't there something in there about finding a wife too?

I think that settling down to get married and have children was part of "getting a life beyond YouTube" 

(Actually, maybe he was commanded to stop by the future wife...  )

[ModemHead]

I also picked up a bit of concern on his part that his videos could lead to unskilled attempts to copy the antics, with possible injury and death. And that may be why he pulled the entire library.  Probably the smartest move he's made.  Yea, he also mentioned something about getting married and having kids.

[HLA-27b]

A few years back there was an elderly gentlmen on youtube, probably scandinavian. He used to do great things with really simple components. He did an osciliscope from old tv parts. He was a real inspiration to me, then he disappeared. Which reminds me that I shoud download and archive some of these videos.

[AntiProtonBoy]

I am somewhat shocked too. I'll miss the bloke. Apparently he got himself new video editing software, and was playing around with it. So there was an indication to continue, but something must have tipped him over in the past couple of days. I hope he won't regret that decision.

[EEVblog]

I am somewhat shocked too. I'll miss the bloke. Apparently he got himself new video editing software, and was playing around with it. So there was an indication to continue, but something must have tipped him over in the past couple of days. I hope he won't regret that decision.

Yes, that would be a shame.
Another reason why simply leaving everything in place and going AWOL for a while would generally be the first choice. But I don't know his circumstances, and it's his content too, he can do whatever he likes. Just a shame to see that hard work building up an audience gone in an instant. And Youtube won't give it back to your either - the videos, the views, the channel, or the partner status. Once you shut down, it's all gone.
I certainly understand where he comes from in regards to the haters, and the pressure to produce more and better content, it can be tough.

Dave.

[hacklordsniper]

I can bet that he will be back again this year, just wait...

[Ajahn Lambda]

I felt a disturbance in the force....as if tens of thousands of YouTube subscribers screamed out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.




I can't say I was a subscriber from "the very beginning" of Photonicinduction's channel, but I was pretty damn close, back when it was mostly popular with only the people that knew what they were really looking at, maybe of the first 1,000 subscribers.  But now, to find out all of his material is gone, on what seems like a whim?  It feels like someone ran over my dog or something: angry and sad, definitely a loss all around.


I can understand where he was coming from, and agree with what Dave said.  The pressure to perform must be tremendous, and the phenomenon of haters and trolls can make productivity suffer tremendously; for some reason, that's what our minds (as creators) can concentrate on, even if not deliberately.  One of those "someone is wrong on the Internet" things.  I feel bad for him in a way, but yeah, definitely better ways of dealing with it, IMHO.

I'm hoping he returns, too, and that there's at least good copies of his 'experiments', somewhere out there.  I hate to hope for some sense of loss and emptiness on his part, but that may be the only tangible impetus for coming back.  It might be a few years before we see anything though if he's truly serious about it.

[EEVblog]

One option of course is to disable comments entirely from all of your videos. I know many Youtubers who do that deliberately so they can produce content and get zero negative feedback. But that does hurt your ranking in all sorts of things.
If he still has his original videos, it would be possible to change his mind and start again from scratch though. Partner status would come again fairly quickly given consistent content uploads and an audience returning.

The strange thing is, he seemed to be really enjoying himself and not giving much of a toss about the haters, so that's why it's quite a shock to me.
And he was in a good position to try and monetize it too I think, 20,000+ subs and I think approaching 10M views is a very enviable position.

Dave.