History WebVideo / BigClive

''bigclivedotcom'' is a channel on Website/YouTube containing {{web video}}s focused principally on the disassembly and analysis of [[MadeInCountryX piss cheap Chinese electrical items]] from places such as eBay and Poundland, as well as more mundane electrical items and explanations of technical concepts, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and dolls that shoot flames out of their genitals]]. The creator is an UsefulNotes/IsleOfMan-based Scottish [=YouTuber=] named Big Clive. In his videos, he is perennially calm, knowledgeable, and sardonic while also being all too willing to do very stupid things on camera. The channel is available [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtM5z2gkrGRuWd0JQMx76qA here on YouTube]].

* MadeInChina: A lot of the products Clive "reviews"/takes to pieces are cheap Chinese-made electronics sourced from eBay. A common thread is them being faulty, actively dangerous to people who try to use them or simply poorly constructed.

''bigclivedotcom'' is a channel on Website/YouTube containing {{web video}}s focused principally on the disassembly and analysis of [[MadeInCountryX piss cheap Chinese electrical items]] from places such as eBay and Poundland, as well as more mundane electrical items and explanations of technical concepts, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and dolls that shoot flames out of their genitals]]. The creator is an UsefulNotes/IsleOfMan-based Scottish [[Website/YouTube YouTuber]] named Big Clive. In his videos, he is perennially calm, knowledgeable, and sardonic while also being all too willing to do very stupid things on camera. The channel is available [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtM5z2gkrGRuWd0JQMx76qA here on YouTube]].

* DontTouchItYouIdiot: "[[https://youtu.be/uPuvhnIoz2g DO NOT OPEN! - (Challenge accepted)]]". The video description reads "Apparently this valve actuator is dangerous to open. Let's open it." Clive suspects that the danger lies in a powerful spring. He is correct, but forewarned is forearmed, so he avoids injury.
* DontTryThisAtHome:

** "Wood fracking" or "fractal burning" is the process of using electricity to make pretty patterns on pieces of wood. "[[https://youtu.be/FBeSKL9zVro The Most Dangerous Project on the Internet]]" is about the extreme dangers of using microwave oven transformers as a power source: Clive says that over 30 people in the USA are known to have been killed by them, and compares the power output to overhead power lines and the electric chair. The thumbnail shows Clive holding an MOT, with the text THIS WILL KILL YOU.
* MadeInChina: A lot of the products Clive "reviews"/takes to pieces are cheap Chinese-made electronics sourced from eBay. A common thread is them being faulty, actively dangerous to people who try to use them or simply poorly constructed.

''bigclivedotcom'' is a channel on Website/YouTube containing {{web video}}s focused principally on the disassembly and analysis of [[MadeInCountryX piss cheap Chinese electrical items]] from places such as eBay and Poundland, as well as more mundane electrical items and explanations of technical concepts, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and dolls that shoot flames out of their genitals]]. The creator is an UsefulNotes/IsleOfMan-based Scottish [[Website/YouTube YouTuber]] named Big Clive. In his videos, he is perennially calm, knowledgeable, and sardonic while also being all too willing to do very stupid things on camera. The channel is available [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtM5z2gkrGRuWd0JQMx76qA here on YouTube]].

* DontTryThisAtHome: Clive does a lot of rather dangerous things, often with very little warning other than "this is very dangerous", with a notable exception being the time that he decided to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5R-KBa18ME&t=32s put 240v mains current across his chest arm to arm]][[note]]Suffice to say this is ''ridiculously'' dangerous and carried a severe risk of death; it was a genuinely extremely risky thing for him to do to the point that many commenters simply told him to never do anything like it ever again[[/note]] and was spurred to add a ''very'' long content warning at the start of the video.

* TranslationTrainWreck: Wonky translations do sometimes feature in his videos, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU8_ZCg3tuE&lc=UgyJx9Z2sUw6-W6V1_l4AaABAg "Electron go out mosquito Small a night lamp"]] takes the cake, what with the name and the completely garbled and incoherent instructions that inexplicably feature the word "de".

* MadeInChina: A lot of the products Clive "reviews"/takes to pieces are cheap Chinese-made electronics sourced from eBay. A common thread is them being faulty, actively dangerous to people who try to use them or simply poorly constructed

* BerserkButton: Inasmuch as Clive, the world's calmest man, can go berserk:
** Shitty [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB1DlBpyS9w "deathdapters"]] that defeat the basic protections inherent to British plug designs, and therefore are inherently unsafe, but that are bundled with cheap electronics anyway.
** Electronics that are designed, through either carelessness or just plain cheapness, in such a way as they can fatally shock their users.
** Most forms of quackery, such as detox foot spas and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx8fywphQp0 OBD2 "fuel saving" devices]].

* PrecisionFStrike: So precise that it's one of a tiny number of uses of the word "fuck" across his ''entire channel'', he lets loose a baffled "what the fuck" when he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HQGXZU2d4I opens the HOPI power meter he's been using for ages]] [[spoiler:to discover that there's a button on it that he literally had no idea of the existence or function of. It turns out it's used to change the calculation of annual power consumption in various ways.]]

* ShoutOut: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tMuXuIYkco Double-death gay Dalek camping light]] intro and title is a reference to the "Gay Daleks" sketches from Victor Lewis-Smith's TVOffal series.
* TakeThat: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1IjOi9cBsE TOP ECO DIY TIPZ]] video is an ''extremely'' sarcastic imitation/teardown of channels like DIYPerks, who attempt to "DIY" various electrical projects with varying degrees of competence and safety.

* Alcohol-InducedIdiocy: Clive particularly enjoys taking apart electronics or doing reckless things while drinking, like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hvg2Wey92E playing with explosives on his workbench]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5uiupJQc9M interfering with an unsafe Russian gas igniter]].

** Shitty [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB1DlBpyS9w "deathdapters"]] that defeat the basic protections inherent to British plug designs, and therefore inherently unsafe, but that are bundled with cheap electronics anyway.

'''Big Clive''' is an IsleOfMan based Scottish [[Website/YouTube YouTuber]], who describes his channel as "the trashiest electronics channel on [=YouTube=]". What he means is, the channel focuses principally on the disassembly and analysis of [[MadeInCountryX piss cheap Chinese electrical items]] from places such as eBay and Poundland, as well as more mundane electrical items and explanations of technical concepts, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and dolls that shoot flames out of their genitals]]. Half of the appeal is Clive himself, perennially calm, knowledgeable and sardonic while also being all too willing to do very stupid things on camera.

!!Big Clive's videos contain examples of the following tropes:

* ColbertBump: Clive got a significant boost when StuartAshen included a segment with Clive in one of his videos, taking apart and critiquing an (actually rather good) Poundworld power bank.

* TakeThat: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1IjOi9cBsE TOP ECO DIY TIPZ]] video is an ''extremely'' sarcastic imitation/teardown of channels like DIYPerks, who attempt to "DIY" various electrical projects with varying degrees of competence and safety.

* PrecisionFStrike: So precise that it's one of a tiny number of uses of the word "fuck" across his ''entire channel'', he lets loose a baffled "what the fuck is that" when he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HQGXZU2d4I opens the HOPI power meter he's been using for ages]] [[spoiler:to discover that there's a button on it that he literally had no idea of the existence or function of. It turns out it's used to change the calculation of annual power consumption in various ways.]]

'''Big Clive''' is an IsleOfMan based Scottish [[YouTube YouTuber]], who describes his channel as "the trashiest electronics channel on YouTube". What he means is, the channel focuses principally on the disassembly and analysis of [[MadeInCountryX piss cheap Chinese electrical items]] from places such as eBay and Poundland, as well as more mundane electrical items and explanations of technical concepts, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and dolls that shoot flames out of their genitals]]. Half of the appeal is Clive himself, perennially calm, knowledgeable and sardonic while also being all too willing to do very stupid things on camera.

* DontTryThisAtHome: Clive does a lot of rather dangerous things, often with very little warning other than "this is very dangerous", with a notable exception being the time that he decided to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5R-KBa18ME&t=32s put 240v mains current across his chest arm to arm]][[note]]Suffice to say this is ''ridiculously'' dangerous and carries a severe risk of death[[/note]] and was spurred to add a ''very'' long content warning at the start of the video.

* Don'tTryThisAtHome: Clive does a lot of rather dangerous things, often with very little warning other than "this is very dangerous", with a notable exception being the time that he decided to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5R-KBa18ME&t=32s put 240v mains current across his chest arm to arm]][[note]]Suffice to say this is ''ridiculously'' dangerous and carries a severe risk of death[[/note]] and was spurred to add a ''very'' long content warning at the start of the video.

* Don'tTryThisAtHome: Clive does a lot of rather dangerous things, often with very little warning other than "this is very dangerous", with a notable exception being the time that he decided to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5R-KBa18ME&t=32s put 240v mains current across his chest arm to arm]][[note:Suffice to say this is ''ridiculously'' dangerous and carries a severe risk of death]] and was spurred to add a ''very'' long content warning at the start of the video.