History WebVideo / DankPods

** He later bought "Jeff", a [[https://youtu.be/3QTOiZADmqw '95 EF Ford Falcon GLi]], a weird freak of nature with the trim of a cheap taxi and a high-end V8 engine, that he thought "only" had problems with leaking coolant that would take a day to fix. Cut to James getting under the chassis and discovering oil leaks compnesated for by overfilling the oil tank, the mufflers replaced with janky soldered-on pipes that were leaking, the fancy differential was busted and ''also'' leaking, and all the bearings for wheels and pulleys being worn. It took six entire weeks to fix everything, only for it to be fairly slow and have incredibly poor mileage.
** An as yet un-nicknamed 1984 Daihatsu Charade inheretd for free from an old housemate. It's covered up the driver's side with graffiti art, the brakes are completely gone, the tyres are 21 years old, and the interior was full of trash that had been untouched for about 6 years. Despite all this, it is deemed to be in better condition than Jeff.

* AscendedMeme: After the Cash Converters song from his Australia Day special became a common inside joke with his fans, he decided to record an video about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trRQreM_J0 iPods brought from Cash Converters]].
** Ever since the iPod Nano video, people have gushing about him saying "Na-no!" in a cute voice. Since then, any time an iPod Nano is brought into a video, he plays that audio clip.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Most of his iPod mods are this. In particular, upgrading the storage of an iPod to 1TB or 2TB may sound impressive, but in practice it's highly unstable and difficult to actually get to work, and actually ''storing'' that much data on the iPod is nigh-impossible anyway. (His attempt to get to 4TB flat out failed, to boot.) Similarly, installing an SSD intended for a PC in an iPod may sound cool (and not that difficult to do, at least) but it's prone to data loss, is ''slower'' than using the hard-drive, causes massive heat problems and absolutely destroys the battery life.

** "Oh, it's so crunchy!" - describing any poorly-fitted, cheap-feeling components.

** "Look what they done to my boy!" - whenever anything gets badly damaged, either by himself or his arch-nemesis, the eBay Global Shipping Programme.

** “It’s like the biggest companies makes the worst junk or something” - when reviewing an [=MP3=] player made by a brand that doesn’t usually make them, which are usually generic Chinese [=MP3=] players.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The weird persona Wade puts on when he's testing out microphones. They're a talentless, penniless idiot who keeps stealing their mum's Corolla, are constantly coming up with and going through doing insanely stupid business ideas, and mistake anything under waist-height to be a dog.
--> "So like my last job was working at [=McDonald's=], but I got sacked 'ey, 'cuz like I stole all the cooking oil and poured it all over the car park mate, turned it into a drift rink 'ey, people pulling in for Macca's didn't even know they were participatin', man, never seen a Camry slide like that, straight into the lamp pole mate, it was super mad."
* CrazyEnoughToWork: In the "Flash vs Hard Drive" video, Wade decided to test to see which iPod hard drives were stronger: the flash drive or hard drive. How did he do it? Make a faux keyring on both iPods, tied rope on them, went on a private road and '''''tied them to his motorcycle and dragged them by the rope'''''. Surprisingly enough, the hard drive survived!
** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnZbsWwzssU They made drumsticks for the iPod]]", Wade shows off an air drumstick toy made for the [=iPod=], only to find that it doesn't work like it's supposed to. Believing them to be cheaply made (indeed, he later snaps them easily like a twig), he tries breaking them by using them with his actual drumkit. Amazingly, they hold up the entire way through, even with how hard he played with them.

* DoNotTryThisAtHome: Wade will often try opening devices up in a dangerous way, warning viewers not to do what he's about to do. On several occasions he has actually injured himself on camera.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: His early videos had him being oddly enough ''very'' calm and chill, with a monotone like tone that didn't have the LargeHam attitude that Wade has now in his videos. That said however, the early videos did feature a bit of Wade's quirks, such as the random names he'll give items, as well as his hyperactivity.

** Since mid-2020, his videos usually end with him advertising the extra video/"aftershow" available to his Patreon followers, complete with a showcase on what the video is about. Shame on you, non-Patreon following viewers...

* TheFaceless: Wade/Dank doesn't show his face in his videos[[note]]Unless you were more familiar with his ''Dankmus'' channel, to which his showed his face in one video[[/note]], always setting his camera to his work desk. You do see his reflection during the "Boot Windows 10 from an iPod Classic" video, as well as in the pilot video of the channel, but that's about it. Averted when he reached 200k subscribers, when he showed his face indirectly via his ''ID Card'' (with the 1 GRIT rock covering the sensitive information) through the YT community section.

* MadeInCountryX: {{Discussed}} in numerous videos. In general, Wade ''really'' doesn't like when companies who used to have their products handmade in their home country move production to China just to save a buck, being particularly upset that AKG has gone that route after being bought by Samsung. He doesn't have any problem with companies like KZ or [=KBEars=] though, which are actual Chinese companies who primarily market to a Chinese audience with the western market being secondary.

* MorePopularSpinOff: To his former channel ''Dankmus''. It should be noted that ''Dankmus'' wasn't just a small forgotten relic, it was rather well known, even getting [[https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvm8kp/simpsons-remixes-memes-steamed-hams-dankmus-youtube-student-loan-debt being acknowledged by VICE]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guriBVXu6pM interviewed as well]]. However following the success of ''Dankpods'', it has eclipsed whatever ''Dankmus'' was, which is ironic considering Wade put the channel on sporadic updates due to Youtube's system (even at one point suspending motenization of his channel for ''a year'').
* MythologyGag: When attempting to load music onto his [=JAMP3=], the enclosed software decodes children's music found on the Eee PC when he simply wants Scarlet Fire. Wade explains that this because he uploaded them during the filming of an Pateron-exclusive "after show".
* NewTechnologyIsEvil: {{Downplayed}} with his [[https://youtu.be/HqJvXs5HG3E?t=350 opinion on true wireless earbuds]]. While he absolutely understands how important convenience is, he finds you can get better sound for a lot less money if you're willing to compromise and buy headphones with a cable, and can then get accessories to win back some of that convenience while still paying less. But moreover, true wireless earbuds are eventually guaranteed to stop working as the batteries in them lose the ability to hold charge, while decent wired headphones can last for decades if taken care of, as evidenced by his collection of vintage headphones from as far back as the 1980's.
** Also {{Zigzagged}} with his opinion on vinyl records compared to digital, pointing out that a lot of stigma against digital music comes from early days where music files needed to be smaller, and audio compression wasn't as advanced as today. On the other hand, vinyl records can still sound great, but it depends on the quality of the recording. He points out that the reason why some people prefer vinyl's "warmer" sound is probably that they prefer the way music has to be mixed on vinyl.[[labelnote:*]]Specifically, the bass has to be in mono while some of the higher-end frequencies need to be shaved off, to keep the needle from moving too much and skipping.[[/labelnote]] His biggest reason for enjoying vinyl was that the hassle of setting the record and inability to skip tracks encouraged him to listen to full albums, rather than pause it and go do something else.

* OhCrap: He tends to have this moments whenever something isn't right with the product he looks at, but one big example was when attempting to fix his [=1TB=] iPod, he realizes there's more damage after he broke the chassis and it began to make crack noises when he attempted to put it together. He will sometimes break into a singsong "Oh nooo-ooo-ooo!" when something is going especially badly.
* OncePerEpisode: Every video opens with a shot of [=DankPods=]' desk and the green-cased iPad that he uses as a work surface, followed by him throwing the video's main topic (or a setup) onto it.
* PercussiveTherapy: Any particularly terrible devices and accessories will usually end up smashed by the end of the video, either by being whacked with a small anvil, or the "1 grit sandpaper", which is just a fist-sized chunk of concrete slab. Particularly low-quality earbuds will often be subject to an audio version of this where they're plugged into a high-quality headphone amp which is set to full blast in an attempt to burn them out.

** The three videos on [=eBay=]'s Global Shipping program can be seen as this, although the third one is where it fully became a rant about how terrible the service is, especially when in said video Wade explained that an item he ordered ''actually was stolen''. He then declared in the video that he was giving up on [=eBay=] and permanently moving onto buying things from other sellers or Amazon, who have been more reliable to him.

---> '''Wade/Dank''': So to sum this guy up: The [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows biggest, richest tech company]] with by far the best experience in the field ''and'' influence in the computer scene abandons everyone they ''suck in their [[ObviousBeta junk media OS]]'', to wind up using someone else's design, which wasn't selling well by the way, [[ChristmasRushed due to wanting to rush it out by Christmas]], [[ObviousBeta whose only hot selling features were totally gimped, to put a store together that was poorly stocked with content, at a time that NO ONE was asking for something like this]], only to ''[[UsefulNotes/DigitalRightsManagement add their DRMS]]'' and ARROGANT point system to buy music, stupid [[Main/{{Microtransactions}} Microsoft Funbucks]], WITH less supported music formats, [[OldShame only to throw it all away, like it had never happened]], abandoning everyone who actually thought Microsoft were gonna do something cool. (exasperated) '''''[[UnfortunateNames SQUIRTING!?]]'''''[[note]]The name Microsoft gave to the Zune feature of sharing songs to one another, ''yes'' they named it that...[[/note]]
** His video on the Samsung "beans"[[note]]Samsung's Galaxy Buds Live[[/note]] ends on him criticizing it primarily for its high price considering the mediocre sound quality (which he contrasted to the [=TaoTronics=] [=SoundLiberty=] 79) and the lousy build quality for the case, the bad performance of the active noise cancelling to the point of it practically not existing, and worst of all, Samsung parading the practically-defunct AKG brand[[note]]the engineers who originally invented open-backed headphones. They were bought by Harmon Kardon in 1997 who in turn were bought out by Samsung in 2017. The original facility and its engineers left earlier in 2016 due to declining sales and have since moved on to form Austrian Audio[[/note]] for tacky marketing purposes.
** His video on {{Website/Twitch}}'s bad automated customer support, due to his account's payments supposedly being "suspended", leading into him quietly joining Floatplane, a streaming platform owned by WebVideo/LinusTechTips.

*** Latterly supplemented with "oh, my duck!"[[note]]The hollowed-out shell of a duck-shaped [=MP3=] player[[/note]] and "oh, my sausages!"[[note]]Some small LEGO sausages[[/note]].

** "Tony", The Fiat Niki Maluch he bought in July of 2021 to fix up with his friend James. It broke down in the middle of a bus lane at one point. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0FHMYvCzUg They did eventually manage to fix it up]] into a mostly-serviceable car, which required tearing the engine apart to replace most of the individual components. The process also showed just ''how bad'' of a state it was in before, the most alarming thing being how fuel was leaking into the oil supply, dissolving parts of the engine from the inside and filling the cabin with dangerous amounts of fumes when driving.

* Garbage Time, initially for random videos usually involving his pet snake [[EnsembleDarkHorse Frank]], but later converted to focus on [[AllegedCar nuggetty cars]
* The Drum Thing, [[CaptainObvious about drums and drum-related content]

He also runs Dankmus, a Simpsons remix channel and Garbage Time, where he uploads random videos, usually involving his pet snake [[EnsembleDarkHorse Frank]].

* TheAllegedCar: The Fiat Niki Maluch he bought in July of 2021 to fix up with his friend James. It broke down in the middle of a bus lane at one point.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0FHMYvCzUg They did eventually manage to fix it up]] into a mostly-serviceable car, which required tearing the engine apart to replace most of the individual components. The process also showed just ''how bad'' of a state it was in before, the most alarming thing being how fuel was leaking into the oil supply, dissolving parts of the engine from the inside and filling the cabin with dangerous amounts of fumes when driving.

* TheAllegedCar: The Fiat Niki he bought in July of 2021 to fix up with his friend James. It broke down in the middle of a bus lane at one point.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0FHMYvCzUg They did eventually manage to fix it up]] into a mostly-servicable car, which required tearing the engine apart to replace most of the individual componenets. The process also showed just ''how bad'' of a state it was in before, the most alarming thing being how fuel was leaking into the oil supply, dissolving parts of the engine from the inside and filling the cabin with dangerous amounts of fumes when driving.

* AutoIncorrect: When [[https://youtu.be/mhMQeJ5Qmp0 Wade tries an Apple Newton]], he finds that ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' may have been a little generous, as "Eat up Martha" at least ''resembles'' "Beat up Martin", unlike "Brokerage". It variously interprets "Dingus" as "Rings", "Bridges", "Directs", "King's", "did yes", and eventually "Berger", and it interprets "Hello my name" as "dominance", resulting in the nonsensical phrase "dominance is frank".

* NewTechnologyIsEvil: {{Downplayed}} with his [[https://youtu.be/HqJvXs5HG3E?t=350 opinion on true wireless earbuds]]. While he absolutely understands how important convenience is, he finds you can get better sound for a lot less money if you're willing to compromise and buy headphones with a cable, and can then get accessories to win back some of that convenience while still paying less. But moreover, true wireless earbuds are eventually guaranteed to stop working as the batteries in them lose the ability to hold charge, while decent wired headphones can last for decades if taken care of, as evidenced by his collection of retro headphones from as far back as the 1980's.

* AutoIncorrect: When [[https://youtu.be/mhMQeJ5Qmp0 Wade tries an Apple Newton]], he finds that ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' may have been a little generous, as "Eat up Martha" at least ''resembles'' "Beat up Martin", unlike "Brokerage". It variously interprets "Dingus" as "Rings", "Bridges", "Directs", "King's", "did yes", and eventually "Berger", and it interprets "My name is" as "dominance", resulting in the nonsensical phrase "dominance is frank".

* AutoIncorrect: When [[https://youtu.be/mhMQeJ5Qmp0 Wade tries an Apple Newton]], he finds that ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' may have been a little generous, as "Eat up Martha" at least ''resembles'' "Beat up Martin", unlike "Brokerage". It variously interprets "Dingus" as "Rings", "Bridges", "Directs", "King's", "did yes", and eventually "Berger", and it interprets "My name is" as "dominance", resulting in the nonsensical phrase "Dominance is frank".

* {{Corpsing}}: Wade is prone to doing this. A good example of this is in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ6-tBg8uIo this video]], where he takes a look at a nugget themed after ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', and discovers after opening it the manufacturers ''[[EpicFail forgot to install a circuit board in it]]''. His reaction is priceless.

** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnZbsWwzssU They made drumsticks for the iPod]]", Wade shows off a air drumstick toy made for the [=iPod=], only to find that it doesn't work like it's supposed to. Believing them to be cheaply made (indeed, he later snaps them easily like a twig near the end), he tries breaking them by using them with his actual drumkit. Amazingly, they hold up the entire way through, even with how hard he played with them.

* NonIndicativeName: His "Nugget Lucky Dip" series, in which he takes a bag filled with old, crappy MP3 players bought in bulk, and rummages through it to find some good ones. As he himself pointed out, it is very rarely lucky.

!!His videos include instances of:

* OhCrap: He tends to have this moments whenever something isn't right with the product he looks at, but one big example was when attempting to fix his [=1TB=] iPod, he realizes there's more damage after he broke the chassis[[note]]The metal frame that holds the iPod's components together[[/note]] and it began to make crack noises when he attempted to put it together. He will sometimes break into a singsong "Oh nooo-ooo-ooo!" when something is going especially badly.

* PercussiveTherapy: Any particularly terrible devices and accessories will usually end up smashed by the end of the video, either by being whacked with a small anvil, or the "1 grit sandpaper", which is just a fist-sized chunk of concrete slab. Particularly low-quality earbuds will often be subject to an audio version of this where they're plugged into a high-quality digital-to-analogue converter (DAC) which is set to full blast in an attempt to burn them out.

* BlessedWithSuck: This is how he describes the iPod Nano: They are a very good product for managing to be so small... but that's ''exactly'' why they are cursed according to him; Due to how tightly everyhing inside them is packed to make them so small, the rechargable battery is pressed directly against the back of the display, meaning the battery's inevitable expansion will damage it (leading to a "black spot"), and can then cause ''far'' worse problems if left unchecked, including damage to the body and the risk of catching fire and exploding. It's bad enough to the point where he keeps his "black spot" Nano's sealed in a jar.

* CrazyEnoughToWork: In the "Flash vs Hard Drive" video, Wade decided to test to see which iPod hard drives were stronger: the flash drive or hard drive. How did he do it? Make a faux keyring on both iPods, tied rope on them, went on a private road and '''''tied them to his motorcycle and dragged them by the rope'''''. Surprisingly enough, the Hard drive survived!

* ProductPlacement: PlayedWith. Wade always says "Not sponsored" when talking about iFlash in any iPod repair video he's done.

* MythologyGag: When attempting to load music onto his JAMP3, the enclosed software decodes children's music found on the Eee PC when he simply wants Scarlet Fire. Wade explains that this because he uploaded them during the filming of an Pateron-exclusive "after show".

* MythologyGag: When attempting to load music onto his Olympus M:Robe, the enclosed software decodes children's music found on the Eee PC when he simply wants Scarlet Fire. Wade explains that this because he uploaded them during the filming of an Pateron-exclusive "after show".

* StopHavingFunGuys: [[invoked]] [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk-Tybi-ihw Headphone Starter Guide]] with regards to online audiophile communities, as well with other hobbies. He greatly dislikes the "snobbery" in forums for a hobby that is very much down to personal taste, and where the highest-end options can be prohibitively expensive and impractical for most people that just want better headphones than what came with their phopne. But on the other side of the coin, he ''does'' understand such people being fed up with people joining forums just to ask the same questions that have been asked time and time again, and recommends anyone considering getting into an audiophile community to do their own research and use its search bar to find answers to anything they want to know first.

*** Latterly supplemented with "oh, my duck!"[[note]]The hollowed-out shell of a duck-shaped MP3 player[[/note]] and "oh, my sausages!"[[note]]Some small plastic sausages[[/note]].

* HellIsThatNoise: Invoked in his treatment to cheap pack-in headphones and any other crummy audio tech Wade doesn't care for, which is to hook them up to an amp that can push ''48 times'' the volume of a typical laptop's headphone jack, and playing the incredibly bassy "Scarlet Fire" through them [[SensoryAbuse at max volume]]. Typically this results in an obscenely loud, farty-sounding buzzing noise that's liable to break whatever's trying to play it.
** Also happened when he put the Skullcandy Crushers, a pair of headphones that have haptic motors to make the bass unlistenably loud, and recorded what they sounded like on a pair of sensitive headphone-tuning microphones. The loud, distorted bass that Wade recorded is powerful enough to actually damage your speakers if you aren't careful, as some viewers attested to.

* BlessedWithSuck: This is how he describes the iPod Nano: They are a very good product for how small it is...but that's ''exactly'' why they are cursed according to him: Due to the small size, the battery in the Nanos would expand for a certain period of time, damage the screen (leading to a "black spot"), and ''far'' worse problems, including damage to the body and the risk of fire and explosion, to the point where he keeps his "black spot" Nanos sealed in a jar.