Occupation YouTuber Years active 2009–present Subscribers 5.51 million | Channel TechRax Genre Technology Total views 1.11 billion | |
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Born Taras Maksimuk
1993/1994 (age 22–23) Lutsk, Volynska Oblast, Ukraine | ||
TechRax is a YouTube channel, created by Taras Maksimuk. The channel mainly features the destruction of phones and technology. As of 31 October 2016, the channel has over 5 million subscribers and over 1 billion total views.
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History
Maksimuk began the TechRax channel as a standard tech blog but switched over to tech destruction videos in 2012 after discovering a demand for them. His early videos were a loss, but as his subscriber base grew, he began to make a profit. Maksimuk uses the advertising revenue to finance his college studies. The first destruction he did is "iPhone 5 Hammer Smash Drop Test -Episode #1-". The destruction of Apple products are the most popular on the channel.
Notable videos
Maksimuk has crushed an iPhone 5S under a train, boiled an iPhone 6 in Coca-Cola, performed a head-to-head comparison between an iPhone 6 and Samsung Galaxy S6 to see which survives longer when boiled in water, and destroyed an Apple Watch Edition with neodymium magnets. The watch cost $10,000, which he raised through advertising in other videos. The video drew over six million views by February 2016. He subsequently melted crayons and dipped an iPhone 6s into them which then resulted in a major fire. The business released a popular and controversial video in September 2016 which instructed users on the procedure for modifying the iPhone 7 to supposedly either obtain access to a hidden headphone jack, or to create a headphone jack, which involves essentially drilling a hole into the smartphone.
Drop tests
The channel also does 100 foot drop tests of the iPhone SE, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, and all of the other phones. His very first 100-foot homemade cases drop test is the "Can Play Doh Protect an iPhone 6S from 100FT Drop Test?"