5-Minute Crafts

5-Minute Crafts is a YouTube channel and is the most subscribed craft channel on YouTube maintained by media publisher TheSoul Publishing,https://thesoul-publishing.com based in Limassol, Cyprus. They also own other YouTube channels such as BRIGHT SIDE, and ACTUALLY HAPPENED. The videos uploaded on 5-Minute Crafts are usually compilations of DIY projects,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED6ZxkOOLi0 life hacks,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZFq3KoJ7Xw pranks,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=folseMrN5IU riddles,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHIto6JMfik and crafts that are posted on both Facebook and YouTube.https://www.facebook.com/5min.crafts/videos/your-car-will-thank-you-after-these-tips/1575655349922836/ They are the most subscribed How-To/DIY channel on the platform.https://socialblade.com/youtube/top/category/howto/mostsubscribed Despite this, they have received a lot of criticism by many due to them being a content farming company and posing a danger to viewers by some of their videos.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQq53-g25d4
5-Minute Crafts was, at one point, one of the fastest-growing YouTube channels in subscribers, gaining over 1-4 million subscribers every month and averaging over 200,000-50,000 subscribers every day from 2018 to 2019, and was even at one point the 3rd most subscribed YouTube channel behind PewDiePie and T-Series.https://web.archive.org/web/20181217210314/https://socialblade.com/youtube/top/100/mostsubscribed In addition, the channel also achieved 500 million video views every month.https://web.archive.org/web/20181217183149/https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UC295-Dw_tDNtZXFeAPAW6Aw It's also the fastest channel to have reached 50 million subscribers, doing so in 828 days after the channel was created.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-FZ4BYu0O4 Likely due to negative backlash and changes to the YouTube algorithm, 5-Minute Crafts has slowed down in both subscribers and channel views.https://web.archive.org/web/20200928231732/https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UC295-Dw_tDNtZXFeAPAW6Aw
==Controversy==
As many people have mentioned, the channel is a huge content farm, churning out as much content as possible without much bother for quality aside from visual.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H34hKBR9YAg They send out about four 10 minute long videos every day, with high-quality graphics.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQjpVLffqVg On closer inspection, you see the content they produce features swift tutorials and crafts, each video is often a compilation of said crafts and is made to fit videos on social media apps with a shorter, speedier format, such as Instagram, where a user requires to make the video under a few seconds to grab viewers' attention and get the point across in time; since Instagram lacks a feature in which a viewer can go to/rewind a particular part of the video. Otherwise, on YouTube, they go slow and add long pauses to add length to the video, which proves that they're clickbait.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8lIA0nAWUk
The channel is also infamous for its , where they would display a picture in the thumbnail regarding a specific "life hack", but do not have the same advertised content in the video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ANZ1ttHA2s They're also known for lying about the quality of all their hacks, acting like something instantly fixes something when it doesn't even though most of their hacks are fake.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALrJAuhyvFE?t=315 The channel was also infamous for repeating videos a lot at one point.https://www.genaradcliffe.com/home/2019/6/17/i-watched-18-5-minute-crafts-videos-amp-almost-lost-my-mind
One of 5-Minute Crafts video contains a instruction video on using rubber-gloved hand puts a strawberry in bleach to make a white strawberry towards kids.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M34pHPRn9Q Even if that did work, a bleached strawberry shouldn’t be eaten.https://foodsafety.wisc.edu/assets/pdf_files/safe_handling_strawberries.pdfhttps://twitter.com/jarvis/status/1152681195169177600 This result massive backlash from American YouTuber Jarvis Johnson, who pointed out negligence when it comes to kids watching this stuff, especially when fire and power tools are involved.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Urgvf8d2PAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoF6Y00Uk84 Later on 5-Minute Crafts deleted the clip of the bleach strawberry scene.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXhP0KzNTOo&lc=Ugw6LgJvEw423TJjypZ4AaABAg
==Alternate channels==
*BRIGHT SIDE
*Health is Wealth
*7-Second Riddles
*5-Minute Magic
*5-Minute Workouts
*SMART BANANA
*Baby Learn Channel
*SLICK SLIME SAM
*Now I've Seen Everything
*You're Gorgeous
*ACTUALLY HAPPENED
*5-Minute Repair
*5-Minute Crafts Family
*Stickman
*RATATA
*5-Minute Crafts Recycle
*Dark Side
*Avocado Couple
*Zodiac Maniac
*Smart is the New Sexy
*5-Minute Recipes
*5-Minute Crafts Teens
*1 Million Tests
*123 Go!
*5-Minute Crafts DIY
*5-Minute Crafts VS
*Crafty Panda
*La La Life
*5-Minute Decor
*1 Million Comments
*Don't Screw Up!
*5-Minute Crafts Tech
*Easy Peasy
*5-Minute Crafts Play
*A Plus School
*5-Minute Crafts Like
*5-Minute Crafts TOP
*Pinky & Bloo
==Channel milestones==
===Subscriber milestones===
*1 thousand subscribers: December 10, 2016
*2 thousand subscribers: January 18, 2017
*3 thousand subscribers: January 21, 2017
*4 thousand subscribers: January 25, 2017
*5 thousand subscribers: January 28, 2017
*6 thousand subscribers: January 30, 2017
*7 thousand subscribers: January 31, 2017
*9 thousand subscribers: February 2, 2017
*10 thousand subscribers: February 3, 2017
*40 thousand subscribers: February 5, 2017
*60 thousand subscribers: February 6, 2017
*90 thousand subscribers: February 7, 2017
*100 thousand subscribers: February 8, 2017
*200 thousand subscribers: February 10, 2017
*300 thousand subscribers: February 12, 2017
*400 thousand subscribers: February 16, 2017
*500 thousand subscribers: February 18, 2017
*600 thousand subscribers: February 20, 2017
*700 thousand subscribers: February 23, 2017
*800 thousand subscribers: February 25, 2017
*900 thousand subscribers: February 28, 2017
*1 million subscribers: March 4, 2017
*2 million subscribers: April 7, 2017
*3 million subscribers: May 21, 2017
*4 million subscribers: June 28, 2017
*5 million subscribers: August 4, 2017
*6 million subscribers: September 7, 2017
*7 million subscribers: October 17, 2017
*8 million subscribers: November 18, 2017
*9 million subscribers: December 8, 2017
*10 million subscribers: December 21, 2017
*11 million subscribers: January 4, 2018
*12 million subscribers: January 22, 2018
*13 million subscribers: February 6, 2018
*14 million subscribers: February 23, 2018
*15 million subscribers: March 12, 2018
*16 million subscribers: March 26, 2018
*17 million subscribers: April 8, 2018
*18 million subscribers: April 22, 2018
*19 million subscribers: May 6, 2018
*20 million subscribers: May 18, 2018
*21 million subscribers: May 29, 2018
*22 million subscribers: June 7, 2018
*23 million subscribers: June 17, 2018
*24 million subscribers: June 26, 2018
*25 million subscribers: July 4, 2018
*26 million subscribers: July 11, 2018
*27 million subscribers: July 18, 2018
*28 million subscribers: July 25, 2018
*29 million subscribers: August 2, 2018
*30 million subscribers: August 11, 2018
*31 million subscribers: August 18, 2018
*32 million subscribers: August 26, 2018
*33 million subscribers: September 4, 2018
*34 million subscribers: September 13, 2018
*35 million subscribers: September 22, 2018
*36 million subscribers: October 2, 2018
*37 million subscribers: October 13, 2018
*38 million subscribers: October 21, 2018
*39 million subscribers: October 31, 2018
*40 million subscribers: November 9, 2018
*41 million subscribers: November 17, 2018
*42 million subscribers: November 28, 2018
*43 million subscribers: December 5, 2018
*44 million subscribers: December 13, 2018
*45 million subscribers: December 26, 2018
*46 million subscribers: January 4, 2019
*47 million subscribers: January 17, 2019
*48 million subscribers: January 29, 2019
*49 million subscribers: February 10, 2019
*50 million subscribers: February 21, 2019
*51 million subscribers: March 6, 2019
*52 million subscribers: March 19, 2019
*53 million subscribers: April 5, 2019
*54 million subscribers: April 19, 2019
*55 million subscribers: May 6, 2019
*56 million subscribers: May 30, 2019
*57 million subscribers: June 18, 2019
*58 million subscribers: July 7, 2019
*59 million subscribers: July 28, 2019
*60 million subscribers: August 23, 2019
*61 million subscribers: September 29, 2019
*62 million subscribers: November 11, 2019
*63 million subscribers: December 23, 2019
*64 million subscribers: February 5, 2020
*65 million subscribers: March 6, 2020
*66 million subscribers: April 14, 2020
*67 million subscribers: June 10, 2020
*68 million subscribers: August 31, 2020
*69 million subscribers: October 17, 2020
*70 million subscribers: December 14, 2020
*71 million subscribers: February 14, 2021
*72 million subscribers: April 11, 2021
*73 million subscribers: July 12, 2021
*74 million subscribers: October 16, 2021
*75 million subscribers: December 21, 2021
*76 million subscribers: March 18, 2022
*77 million subscribers: June 18, 2022
*78 million subscribers: November 25, 2022
*79 million subscribers: February 24, 2023 
*80 million subscribers: June 10, 2023
==Video view milestones==
*9 thousand views: December 9, 2016
*10 thousand views: December 10, 2016
*20 thousand views: December 19, 2016
*30 thousand views: December 28, 2016
*40 thousand views: January 14, 2017
*50 thousand views: January 17, 2017
*60 thousand views: January 19, 2017
*70 thousand views: January 21, 2017
*80 thousand views: January 23, 2017
*90 thousand views: January 26, 2017
*100 thousand views: January 27, 2017
*200 thousand views: January 31, 2017
*300 thousand views: February 2, 2017
*700 thousand views: February 4, 2017
*1 million views: February 5, 2017
*2 million views: February 6, 2017
*4 million views: February 7, 2017
*7 million views: February 8, 2017
*10 million views: February 9, 2017
*20 million views: February 12, 2017
*30 million views: February 13, 2017
*40 million views: February 15, 2017
*50 million views: February 17, 2017
*60 million views: February 19, 2017
*70 million views: February 20, 2017
*80 million views: February 21, 2017
*90 million views: February 23, 2017
*100 million views: February 24, 2017
*200 million views: March 13, 2017
*300 million views: March 26, 2017
*400 million views: April 9, 2017
*500 million views: April 23, 2017
*600 million views: May 8, 2017
*700 million views: May 22, 2017
*800 million views: June 2, 2017
*900 million views: June 15, 2017
*1 billion views: June 27, 2017
*2 billion views: October 3, 2017
*3 billion views: December 12, 2017
*4 billion views: February 13, 2018
*5 billion views: April 13, 2018
*6 billion views: June 2, 2018
*7 billion views: July 13, 2018
*8 billion views: August 18, 2018
*9 billion views: September 24, 2018
*10 billion views: November 5, 2018
*11 billion views: December 16, 2018
*12 billion views: February 3, 2019
*13 billion views: March 29, 2019
*14 billion views: June 3, 2019
*15 billion views: August 2, 2019
*16 billion views: October 11, 2019
*17 billion views: January 25, 2020 and February 11, 2020
*18 billion views: July 3, 2020
*19 billion views: November 29, 2020
*20 billion views: April 12, 2021
*21 billion views: September 16, 2021
*22 billion views: December 19, 2021
*23 billion views: March 26, 2022 and July 21, 2022
*24 billion views: August 27, 2022
*25 billion views: January 21, 2023
*26 billion views: May 22, 2023
*27 billion views: January 30, 2024
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