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To quote the guy in the video: "This shows just how stupid this was..."

After the fact he realized the magnitude of how dumb this demo was.

I'm grateful he shared it. It's valuable for others to learn from his foolishness, and brave of him to recognize this and tolerate the embarrassment for the benefit of strangers.

Second this. It’s super hard to imagine in what ways things can go wrong before you have seen or experienced them.

Kick-backs would never even have been on my radar, even though I’m seeing myself as a careful person, if it wasn’t for YouTube and people like him taking their time to educate the rest of us.

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