I'm pinning this comments just so y'all know that in the US, it is spelled KALLAX so my pronunciation is less weird than it seems.

Darn, he really built a replica of the green-screen background for a million subs

The real impressive part is that the background is real but he's entirely CGI. Hes actually wearing a green morph suit

"I'm unforgivably lazy" *routinely makes thirty minute, well-produced, in-depth videos about household tech*

"I'm unforgivably lazy, also I hung two TV's behind my set just for the hell of it."

"I'm unforgivably lazy." "Anyways here's my amazing backdrop that is absolutely saturated with meaningful and clever details just like all of the content I produce" So well earned, man. I get excited every time I see you have a new video, wasn't expecting one with such a personal touch. How great :)

"Something about dishwashers just really piqued your interest" Bro that video CHANGED MY LIFE.

The system for making that color backdrop is actually pretty legit! Good stuff!

"I thought I was just too weird, that this channel idea wouldn't have enough wide appeal" You underestimate youtube rabbit holes. Your channel is peak "it's 2am, I'm not asleep yet, so I'm watching videos about dishwashers" material

Well earned. How do you make your background look so real?

Other youtubers: face reveal! This guy: *SHELVES REVEAL* I never saw that one coming.

"I thought I was just too weird..." ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

You have the best background set! The TV background lighting idea is as simple as it is genius. I was expecting something way more complicated. You better be proud of it and of your channel!

We are all weird but that’s what makes life interesting.

The TVs as backdrop is incredibly clever. Until you revealed what they were, I had no clue.

I tried using the oscilloscope on the top of your shelf, and I can confirm that despite my best efforts, I was utterly unsuccessful in doing so.

"which you can't see during the talking heads" Oh, you can see it once in a lifetime, but it's same as it ever was

Nobody gonna say the obvious thing about the TV background? OK ... "By the magic of buying two of them ..."

Using large TV's as backlights is the most bodge job thing ever, and I love it.

2 years later you’re approaching 2 million. You deserve it. The information, comedy, and snark make this channel as wonderful as it is

Now I just realized why I enjoy this channel so much, it reminds me of that segment with Andy Rooney on 60 minutes. No jokes are explained, treating the audience as capable, smart individuals, all while explaining even the most basic stuff. Congratulations on reaching 1 million, may ever more people discover this clever channel in the future.

"Then we see the wee little GE TV that me got for free tee hee" Someone give this man his gold star sticker already

The TV's are actually genius.

Up Next: "How To Dust Shelves With Lots and Lots Of Knickknacks"

11:12 - there's one of those absurd little "completely unnecessary rhyming moments" that are the cherry on top of so many of your videos.

“And in my fridge, I have soy milk, grapes, a 12 pack of Diet Coke, a pound of ground beef, and a fake Swedish plant!”

Ok but the TVs behind the shelves reveal is legit one of the best surprise twists I've ever seen.

Bahahaha the TVs hanging behind the shelves is a clever trick! Congrats on 1M!!!

11:11 As a non-native english speaker, I almost had a stroke

I never would have guessed that there were TVs back there, crazy.

"Something about dishwashers just really piqued your interest." Your video on dishwashers has completely changed the way I do dishes.

DUDE, I was just chilling in my room, then the snake showed up and I realize I HAVE THAT STATUE. Of course mine has the original paint. The back/hood is copper with a silver bottom/chest if anyone was curious.

You were right the first time; it’s a skein of red yarn! A hank is a big loop of yarn that you twist into a rope-like twisty thing to keep it tangle-free. A skein is wrapped into a pill shape around a rod, which lets you pull the yarn from the center if you’re clever about it. This is similar to a cake, which is my personal favorite yarn storage structure. It’s like a skein, but it’s wound up into a flat cylinder (like a cake) and very stackable.

"...insufferably clever." I mean, that's your channel in a nutshell.

I'm gonna state the obvious: post the TV's templates and let the community have some fun with it

The TV's behind the shelf is an extremely clever idea, I always thought it was RGB LED backlit acrylic

I love the fact that you took your time to do subtitles. Not that I really use it all the time, but when there's something I need to look up and don't know how to spell it, it's really helpful.

Why was I actually shocked when you revealed the TV’s in the back

I was losing interest in my Electrical Engineering graduation course back in 2018, really considering whether I should quit, but I found your channel back then and it was one of the things that reminded me why I chose that course in the first place: because I love to know how things works and how things are connected. This month I finished my graduation course and I'm always coming back here for more content. Thank you for your quality/entertainment/educational videos and I hope to see more from you! I know you may never read this, but I felt I might tell you how much you can positively affect someone from hundreds of kilometers away in a different country. Hugs from Brazil =)

your channel is the new age "how its made" series

Huh. I've wondered how you did the "TV background" thing before. Very clever. A year and a half ago, when I rebuilt my set, you were an inspiration for it.

1 million people: “Yeah, I’d watch Stephen Stucker from Airplane sarcastically explain how personal humidifiers work.”

"I'm unforgivably lazy!" The man has dozens of more-in-depth technical vids than you'll find on any 'professional' TV/Web source. Scares me what he might achieve if he actually tried! 😜

Congrats! I’m totally stealing that TV idea!

I'm really impressed with that studio ground set! I always thought it was kind of cool, but I had no idea so much effort was put into it. Great job, and congrats on your success!! 🎉🎉🎉🏆

This channel proved that people do actually want to learn about even very dry subjects, as long as the person teaching them is interesting or "absurdly weird" as you say. Plus, many of us are absurdly weird as well. Congrats on 1M subscribers and I can't wait to see your 2M subscriber celebration.

Really crazy when you think of it like this: 1 in 7000 people on this planet get a notification on their phone every time you post a video and think "i cant wait to learn about something I never carefully considered before and twenty minutes later have very strong opinions about it which I will share with anybody who locks eyes with me for more than a couple seconds"

It makes me happy that you're functionally using some of the sections for storing stuff, and just how clean it all looks. If it were me, I'd have labels on each of the cupboards and drawers outlining what's in them which, while useful, would ruin the aesthetic.

Ya did it my lad! As a fellow weirdo making his way doing the thing he was oddly fascinated by (in my case programming and electronics) I am so happy to see someone with similar interests (I've always been fascinated by how things work) be so successful, no less by appealing to a wide audience. It make me feel just that bit less of weirdo myself. Also, I really appreciate that you don't redact your contribution level on Patreon. Thanks for the transparency. You deserve every penny of it.

First rule of quality content on the internet: The more weirder the most better.

The tv background is a proper stroke of genius, you deserve to be proud of that one.

11:12 "Then we see the wee little GE TV that me got for free teehee" as a spanish speaker I got several brain damage

The sun shining on traffic lights making them appear to be lit is one of my greatest fears tbh.

"I'm unforgivable lazy" says the guy with a great youtube channel. Thanks for all the great content

The soft, calm styling of your videos is what draws me in. Along with unique items that you have shown and their in-depth and well explained backgrounds. Always enjoyable to watch

I'm one in a million! Congratulations, man. TC stands for the consistency - of formula and quality. I have to admit that things aren't going well around here and I'm depressed - but your channel helps me in my every day fight. Not some motivational posters, not a shrink, but your smile, your passion, your grumpy jokes (that's a compliment!). And I don't mean help as temporal smile when I watch your videos, because I'd find it pointless. I mean something that makes me feel better in general. [also damn, it's almost year old; I'm late to party]

Took me too long to realise "Swedish plant" isn't actually a type of plant

I am so offended for you that anyone thought your set was a green screen. Easily the best UKpostsr set out there.

I would want to say I appreciate the work you do. Clearly, this isn't work ... It's an awesome channel! Thank you very much! Edit: I don't want to downplay the work you do. It makes an awesome part of the internet.

We love your stuff *because* it's weird! No one else goes in to such awesome and exciting detail as you.

Imagine going through all this trouble to cover your green screen secret

That's some damn impressive CGI, almost looks like you're really moving the set items around

Congratulations! Your particular brand of weirdness is entertaining and inviting, and you can tell the amount of care that goes into every single video. Thanks for making wonderful content, I can't wait to see where we go in the future!

Love the set. Very nostalgic, from a simpler and more stress-free time. I half-expected it to be a rented studio somewhere professional, like a university. The colored TV squares are a nice touch.

I'm in favour of never moving that "The Terminal" DVD. Knowing it's there is delightful.

Well deserved on the 1 mil! This show is great!

The background was the very first thing to amaze me with this channel. Awesome idea.

You're the best kind of weird, and I love your set, even with the displays turned off. I'm proud to have been one of your 1st million subscribers.

As others have said, you deserve every bit of this. And you should know that, for many of us out there in the the world, your videos really do brighten our days. I know they do for me, so thank you.

The set is real, you're entirely 3D generated and DeepFaked, we know.

The reason this show works so well is because there's something oddly comforting about it, it feels like an old PBS show, like This Old House, but instead it's like "This Old Sony Camcorder That Sucked (But Not Really)

ive been following for a few years, i think since 2016 and i love your informative yet slightly silly style, its a very down to earth tech channel with lots of heart, heres to the future! *Raises glass*

Dang, that TV background set up is actually really cool, you have every right to be proud of that!

11:11 "The wee little GE TV that me got for free TEE HEE" Thank you Alec, Very cool!

1 million subs? Wow, I still remember you being sub 50k subs and I was just thinking "this channel is gonna be huge". Congrats!

This is the coolest set, I'm so glad you finally took us on a tour!

Chromecasting the desktops of two computers to massive 55 inch TVs chained to the ceiling is the kinda bizarre background solution only you would actually do

The TVs as backlights is brilliant. Infinite versatility. Maybe you could use them to hide some easter eggs. Or maybe have all the colors slowly shift to brown (dark orange) over the course of a full episode and see if anyone notices.

Yarn nerd here: @6:05 - That is a skein of yarn. Skeins are loose twists, what you'd usually expect to buy at Michaels/Joanns/etc. A hank is a circle of yarn that's folded and is more common with hand dying and natural fibers. You can work from a skein but you cannot work from a hank as it will twist and tangle on itself so a hank must be wound.

This is so incredibly amazing! The set is a real gem! Look forward to all the videos posted here.

Point of order: skeins, hanks, balls and cakes are *forms* of yarn, not sizes/quantities. You have a big skein of red yarn. You could unravel it and wind it into a big hank of red yarn if you were so inclined.

you deserve every ounce of this success and more. thanks for being such a terrific person. :-) my wife and i have a theme of pears and i cannot tell you how happy that little white pear has made me over the years. 🍐

Dude, keep it up! I’m always happy when I see a new video of yours, wondering what sort of thing I’ve always wondered about you’re covering next!

man i love these videos, it must be so meticulous but enjoyable to gather everything needed for a video. They are so well thought out, and a pleasure to watch. so happy to see you hit 1 mil!!

Interesting tech dissected with the correct amount of snark. Just up my alley, please keep taking my Patreon money =)

genuinely had a jaw-drop moment when you revealed the way the colored cubbies work.

Dude, you’re awesome, thanks for all the great videos! I have learned quite a bit from this channel and look forward to continuing to do so.

I love the aesthetic of the set, I'm glad you went over it in detail

I still can’t believe the set has been a green screen this whole time 🤯

Congrats! As a yarn store owner though, it's just a ball, sorry. A skein/hank of yarn is about how it's wound, not its yardage. 🙂

1 million well deserved! Love love love your content and delivery, thank you for giving me some fascinating moments of escape from this clusterbuck of a year 2020. To a better 2021, take care, and stay safe

The background is one of the main reasons I love and subscribed! Thank you for the tour, Alec!

I like the background because it reminds me of the “I spy” books I used to look at in elementary school.

4:55 “A rather PHALLIC sand castle” 🤣 my thoughts exactly hahahahaha

Congratulations on reaching a million! Richly deserved - it's a delight to watch your videos; they're always really engaging and fascinating. Thank you, Alec!

Just wanted to say thanks for the content. I started following you earlier last year and binge watched a ton of your content over the summer when I was unemployed, you really made my all nighters alone a little more entertaining while still teaching me something new every time. Wish you the best.

"I'm unforgivably lazy" literally puts a fucking TV behind the shelves instead of getting individual lights. well earned.

The most important question is yet to be answered: Where did you get that jacket from?

I really have been enjoying your videos. Very informative on things I haven't not see on other channels I usually watch.

Thank you for all the great videos. You have worked hard and it has paid off. Good job!