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The statue should be in the likeness of whatever sculptor posted the sculpting tool repair video that was most helpful during the installation of the statue.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3163/
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This is the exact opposite of this comic
Or, another annoying one, you find a thread, solve it yourself, and can’t post because the thread is locked for whatever dumb reason. You make a new thread and it never gets traffic from search engines. Only the old one. So nobody ever solves the problem because some mod is worried about necroing, oh the horror.
The new thread also gets closed as a duplicate of the old thread
They’re the opposite of people who post “nvm fixed” on their help requests.
Even better when it’s a straightforward text post :’) genuine heroes.
I sat hunched under my elderly mother’s car, video running on the phone in one hand, showing how to remove a ridiculously complicated headlamp cover, just to replace a busted headlight. Hand scraped and bleeding, but it got done. Would have NEVER figured it out otherwise.
Thanks that one YouTuber.
Mechanic youtubers are honest to god heroes.
Straight to heaven
and a couple weeks later there’s a Louis Rossmann video on how the video uploader is getting sued by the dehumidifier company
I’m annoyed at how plausible this sounds
There really is an xkcd for everything.
I once heard it described as “there’s no computer problem on Earth that can’t be solved by watching a YouTube video by a random 13 year-old Indian kid“
I was trying to fix an old Dell Digital Jukebox and was saved by a random internet comment with a link to the firmware files the commenter had dug up. There’s this concept called net utility - that dude definitely increased the net utility in the world, even if infitesimally
Definitely better than those “use the search bar” clowns.
The guys who make appliance repair videos and sell the exact part you need, and you can get the part number and find it cheaper somewhere else. But, thanks for the video.
Sometimes I will watch an instruction video on YouTube and say “Nope, that’s worth paying a professional for”. Other times it’s very useful, such as when the flame sensor in my furnace needed to be cleaned. It’s a wonderful resource, really.
You too can be a statue candidate by not fearing the screwdriver
Or destroy the thing because you don’t know where to put yo’ hands
A risk we all have to face from time to time
Is your door hinge making a weird noise?
