Crazy XYZ: See what life is like for the #4 YouTuber in India
Hindustan TimesAt 10, Amit Sharma’s mission was to find a way to make his toy motorcycle fly. His content is a wacky mix of science experiments, bewildering stunts and weird hacks, with videos titled ‘Making Biggest Bubble From 1000 Chewing Gum’, ‘Driving Our Bus Underwater’ and ‘We Made Shoes of tape… Will These Work?’ In life, he’s a shy young man from a farming village 50 km from Alwar in Rajasthan. “At the IIT, I found myself watching a lot of YouTube videos in my spare time and I thought, I could make these too,” he says. “But I was too close to being successful to quit.” He started over, with a channel called Prayogshala, a place of crazy experiments and hacks on things like modifying cricket bats for better grip; and a second channel, The Indian Unboxer, which now has 3.1 million subscribers. “We also do prank videos, travel videos and challenge videos to ensure that the content never gets boring or repetitive.” Sharma currently owns a rundown truck, a road-roller, a bus, and about a dozen second-hand cars that will be more or less destroyed in upcoming videos.
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