YouTube is full of cringey, clickbait DIY channels. They’re even weirder than you think. How bizarre channels like Troom Troom and 5-Minute Crafts took over YouTube.

This is a prank, meant to trick a girl known only as “red head” into believing she is eating an egg. Instead, then, Troom Troom perhaps illustrates the pitfalls of allowing algorithms to rule our life ...

Troom Troom’s creators did not respond to a request for comment, and the three-year-old channel’s origins remain mysterious. Alongside the original Troom Troom channel, there are also German, Dutch, ...