Say what you want from YouTubers, but they sure know how to spend their money. We saw earlier how the internet stars earn their internet a rebuilt Battlebot, a glider bar, an oversized balloon, en a grenade complete with the ATM in which it was thrown. Now we have Allen Pan from the YouTube channel Sufficiently advanced, a man who has decided that his pandemic is best used stimulus check is to buy a robot exoskeleton so he can use a giant anime-style sword.
In a video documenting this decision, Pan gets a welder to create a 50 pound sword based on the one used by Cloud Final Fantasy VII. Because spreading this weight makes it impossible for most non-cartoon people to use the thing with any form of warlike grace, Pan decides he needs some help. So, he buys a used, $ 900 camera-stabilizing exoskeleton, the idea inspired by the powers that be the characters in Edge of tomorrow, to drive his huge sword.
Pan modifies the suit to better absorb the extra weight, ties a strap cable in the middle of the sword, and can finally pick up his absurd weapon so well that he can use it to conquer a television. ‘I have the power of god and anime on my side! Pan shouts in triumph.
Yet the sword is is uncomfortable enough to use Pan, even with his exoskeleton, that he decides to see how his ingenuity matches the natural power of a large, muscular man. He recruits a huge guy who manages to use the giant sword to smash watermelons, coconuts and an entire table with the blade.
Is it all ridiculous? Certainly! But we think it’s much better for Pan to use his money and fame to explore ways we can all become breeding environmental terrorists ready to take back the planet from evil corporations whatever some other YouTubers get up to.
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