Physical rage rooms have spread around the world. Now, digital versions are taking over the internet. The audio is patchy, the video shaky at times, but the 10-minute “Best Building Demolition Compilation” video on YouTube, published in 2017, has 44 million views and counting. It features a series of buildings, industrial chimneys and towers being razed to the ground, as giant clouds of dust gather around them. Each concrete building folds into itself and then, boom: It’s reduced to rubble within minutes. In the comments, viewer Olivia Joelle says she’ll “never understand why things like this interest me so much.” Another commenter wonders: “Who thinks this is oddly satisfying? Is it just me?” |