However, despite the cryptic inspiration behind its videos, 5-Minute Crafts is clearly onto something. With nearly 59 million subscribers, the page is the third most popular on YouTube.

I know these crafts are used to make a lot of money off short, tightly-packed videos, but I think I will always respect 5-Minute Craft videos. They rarely work and are extremely questionable sometimes ...

In 5-Minute Crafts’ slight defense, by the way, the Big Egg Video is not presented as a craft but as a “Crazy Home Science Trick,” which doesn’t seem like a totally unfair description.

XO, MaCenna tests 5-minute crafts to see which DIY projects actually work.

“Zone·ify is a perfect platform for the 5-Minute Crafts ® and 123 Go! audiences,” said Jonathan Shrank, TheSoul Publishing’s Director of Distribution and Streaming Content Partnerships.

I tested eight chip life hacks from 5-Minute Crafts to see if they actually work. In this video, I try them out one by one, sharing which ones are clever tricks and which ones are just plain fails.