The bizarre, lucrative world of 'unboxing' videos (opens in new tab)

Really? Slow pans over the product with background music? And it may not even be produced by the company itself?

Unboxing videos are consumer pornography.

I don't mind them if they are short and part of a larger narrative about the product itself...(like Dicetower boardgame reviews where they dump all the pieces in the box)...but I can't imagine just watching that because it's an unboxing vid...I have a feeling so many people saw that kinderegg vid because they searched youtube for "kinder egg" and not because they wanted to see an unboxing vid, per se.

Why is it the only interesting coverage on CNN these days is when they put up Youtube videos?