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Seeing Click with a shirt instead of his usual tie and polo feels new to me.

Click is the chaotic neutral we all needed.

I dunno why, but Click tossing his plushies over his shoulder when he's done showing them off will forever be charmingly hilarious to me.

34:26 I'm reminded of a story, but I can't remember where I heard it from. A man passed away, and his daughter kept getting phone calls about one of his accounts with a company. The daughter tried explaining to the company that her father was deceased, and his account should be closed. But the company insisted that they needed permission from the deceased father to close the account. She kept getting calls, and she was told each time that they can't close the account without speaking to her father. Even though she'd made it very clear he was dead. So she got fed up, and walked into one of their offices, requesting to close the account. When she was again told they need her father's permission...she reached into her bag, and pulled out and urn and a ouiga board. She made a big dramatic scene, asking her father's spirit to send a sign from the afterlife that he consented to close the account. She kept it up until the manager came over to intervene, because she was drawing attention from other customers. In the end, the manager admitted defeat and agreed to close the account for her.

While companies can say, "you can't sue us" in their terms & conditions, it's not actually true. You can still sue them

What’s kind of funny to me about ads is that if you over advertise to me, I start hating the brand enough that I will never buy from them. It literally has the opposite effect.

2:39 have a child open it for you, since therefore the child has “signed” this “contract”, therefore making it’s conditions void

This reminds me of how I ate a moon pie earlier today. On the wrapper of the individual pie, it said that it was 53% DV sugar. what I hadn't realized until I finished eating the whole thing is that it was 3 servings per pie. These things aren't even that big. I suddenly realized I had about 159% of the sugar I should in a day in one sitting. Not to mention the other things I had eaten earlier.

"by breaking this seal you agree to the contract inside" Me: grabs a circular saw and saws around the seal to keep it intact.

click is the dad we didnt know we needed with all his dad jokes, his knowledge, and his ability to roast posts

About the "peculiar" food servings, the nutritional facts related to them, the terms and conditions to avoid suing from poisoned customers and the juice "not juice": as a veterinarian who studied European food safety and regulations, I can tell you that those are all typical FDA (USA) bs. The FDA approach is basically "you company can do whatever you want, if someone sues you then deal with it how you like". In the EU on the other hand the approach is "you food company are legally responsible for guaranteeing the safety of what you produce, together with the farmers and the supermarkets (and all the rest of the chain involved), until it reaches the table of the customer; if something happens to them, you are in deep shit". This to explain that those things aren´t possible to write on a product in the EU because they would be at least immediately denounced by food inspectors (vets usually) as scams, not to mention that the responsibility for food poisoning by contamination due to production failures is considered a penal crime, meaning you´re going to prison for it, because it´s considered endangerment of public safety. That´s basically the same charge as if you would put a building purposely on fire. So yeah, the Americans love to complain about there being "too many rules in Europe" but the truth is, that those rules are keeping us safer and healthier.

27:40 in some US states, Door Dash got into serious legal trouble for doing this, and the law was on the side of the drivers. These states have laws in place that say tips can't be counted against wages, so this means Door Dash has to pay the rate they say they will, and tips are 100% extra. Sadly this is not true for most of the country.

Back in uni they wanted us to buy overpriced books, but we just pirated them and sent the PDFs to every class member. Dunno what else they expected from CS students.

We don’t hate you, cliccy. We understand that you have business to attend to and cursed memes with Reddit content for us. We appreciate your patience and the probable loss of sanity. Thank you.

Remember when companies just used good impressions and service to try to sell products instead of trying to engage in literal psychological warfare, self-implemented monopolies, or outright scams? We really are descending into a dystopian hellscape.

A positive brand experience to balance this out: i once got college humors dropout subscription, but then decided to cancel and they offered an extra week for free. At the end of the week i went to cancel again, and they had already automatically unsubscribed me

Pro-tip: A sticker is not a binding contract. All those void warranty warnings are just BS to try and stop you from fixing things yourself (or breaking it yourself instead.)

I cant explain why but seeing Click wear a comfy sweater instead of a dress shirt makes me feel more cozy

I've long wished I was rich enough to pursue a string of suits against the "by opening this you have agreed" BS, arguing that there is no rational way I could be committed to a contract the very existence of which I could not know until after I supposedly "agreed" to the terms.

I can confirm that Grubhub and Doordash and similar food delivery places do literally list their base prices higher than the restaurant does on their own online menus. Then on top of that, they charge additional delivery fees and then will force you to include a tip before you actually place the order, so if the food arrives 3 hours late, the tip is still charged to you.

A trick I learned from my mom for dealing with customer service when you are requesting they stop sending you things is to sound like a lawyer. I witnessed this first hand when my family was being sent scammy letters claiming that we owed money. We didn't even have any connections to them. I watched her explain, politely, why the they where doing was predatory, the guy on the on the phone asked if she was a lawyer (she's not), she finished the call buy saying "I'm ordering a cease and desist." We where immediately put on the do not contact list.

The "white elephant" gift one is actually pretty funny. For those who don't know, "white elephant" gifts are supposed to be random, silly, or nonsense gifts. They are a holiday party tradition. There's usually a recommended value limit (the lower the better lol) Everyone brings a gift, wrapped but not addressed to anyone in particular, they play some kind of swapping game, and you get what you get. A gift that you cannot open without the gift itself is actually kind of genius.

Seeing Click look all sad about having sponsorships and intros while in the comfy sweater just makes me want to give him a hug. We love you, you’re amazing, here hug this mango

That door dash (Uber also does this {or did there were news articles about it}) where they basically scale the pay down as low as legally allowed and then add the tips so they're almost never getting all if any of their tips. I literally started keeping small amounts of cash on me to tip them with dollars. That way I can still tip good service but w/o the app knowing so they get all the money. It's a small thing but those services are so helpful to me and the workers deserve to be paid right. 🧡🦇

As long as there is greed in the world, Piracy will never die.

That instant ink thing is an absolute nightmare. It's so bad that at my work we tell customers to avoid buying HP printers just to save them from having to deal with it.

Terms and conditions won't protect a company in court if they poison someone with heavy metals but it might discourage people from filing a claim in the first place witch makes it doubly scummy and just a bold faced lie.

7:08 the infuriating part about the cleaning fee is they have a rule book in some of these places that they want you to do most of the cleaning before you leave. And that point just get a more expensive hotel room Also I got a Vrbo ad right after I made this comment

One thing I’ve noticed about the RU-vid add policy is how if you watch the entirety of a skip-able add, it gives you another one. It thinks you’re distracted, or asleep, or maybe just letting it run and it will give you another one or two adds

Underappreciated RU-vidr Aspect moment! I do love Click's thumbnails. They did their job in bringing us all together in one wholesomely cursed community, and that's all we can ask for. One Click and you're hooked haha!

5:25 - Life hack - cancel the service as soon as you get it. You'll still get access, but you won't forget to cancel it in a few days & get charged. They're counting on you forgetting to cancel, which is how they make their money.

You cannot be contracted to not sue, so... it's just intimidation.

I love that Click's videos are now over half an hour long. Perfect way to end the day.:)

Those “mirrors” remind me of this one thing I heard about. This woman went on “Shark Tank” to pitch this, initially. Everyone passed on it, then she went quiet. It’s a mirror for dressing rooms in shops that sell clothes. It works like a subtle funhouse mirror and makes you appear slimmer than you actually are so when you try on clothes they look better on you in the mirror than they might actually look in real life. So, you’re more likely to buy the things you’re trying on because you feel great about how you look in them. I’ve never seen anything where the creator has explicitly said that she’s been selling any of these mirrors but she hasn’t denied it, either. Because her item is aimed at businesses and not the public at large she could be selling these mirrors like hotcakes and there’s no way to know for sure which businesses are buying them. Know your body and if you do try clothes on at a store be aware that there could be one of these mirrors in there and if something looks noticeably better on you than you suspect it should either pass on it or have a mirror of your own at home, try the clothes on AGAIN and if it doesn’t look as good as it looked at the store, return it. NEVER remove any tags until you’re sure you’re keeping the item(s), save your receipt(s) and NEVER shop at a place that won’t let you return clothes within a certain time frame with a receipt (with the exception of undergarments and swimwear, for everyone’s health and safety). You’re welcome.

Stuff like this is why piracy is so ubiquitous.

26:18 reminded me of how my high school did the same thing but it was like a $2 fee for every page you wanted to print and you would rack up a debt on your school account that your parents had to pay. Many of us couldn't afford that and didn't have printers at home, so one of my classmates who came from a rich family would tell us to email our assignments to him so he could print them for us, his parents were more than happy to pay. He was a lifesaver fr

My respect for click when he tells us that he got his joke from a funny comic and credits the artist😎📈

I once paid about $250 for a science textbook that wasn't bound (they sold them in a cheap binder.) We never (not even once) used the textbook. I never even opened it. This is a regular occurrence in American universities these days. Edit: I forgot to mention. I'm was a language major (Spanish). Our textbooks are regularly $200+ amd $300 for our main courses. I eventually dropped out because I couldn't afford it anymore (ran out od financial "aid" (which is actually just a massive loan(s) from the government.)

Always thought it was cute how someone actually sat down and decided to show ads in places that would leave me too blinded with rage to process what the ad is even for.

21:28 It's basically the chocolate version of a nether portal. Removing the corners might make it look fancy, but it's only done to save money

The crap about uni books makes me glad that my professors just make the reading material available to us, without a charge. At least they still want to teach me something at the end of the day.

I have a feeling that one day iPhones are just going to be the plastic case with the rest of the parts sold as "accessories"

33:38 One cough drop for $10? I would've dropped them off back at the hospital, told them to shove it, & go to Walmart where a bag of 70 is $4.

The door dash thing is the reason I always tipp cash. I don't trust these services to do there job regarding my money.

The best part with the salad is if they had divided the total package into 4 servings it would look even better at 140 calories a serving

About few years ago a friend ordered all the ingredients for their family Christmas dinner online. They made a mistake on one item, instead of ordering a kilo of Brussel sprouts they only ordered one. They received the single Brussel sprout in its own plastic bag with a 0.5p price sticker on it.

Saving tip: look at the unit price. That way, you can see if they are charging more for less product.

There used to be CD packages that were sealed with giant stickers, and on top of the stickers it was written "by breaking this seal, you won't be able to return/you are bound by the terms and conditions of service" or some crap like that. After seeing one of my seniors just ripping open the package and keeping the seal intact, I started doing the same.

Wasn’t expecting to see Click in a shirt instead of his usual tie and polo, but, unlike everything else in this video, I actually like his design.

yay its click! You are honestly a saint - thank you so much for being so supportive and wholesome.

5:35 - Subscribe and then cancel right away. You'll still have the trial period but you won't be charged.

To be fair, if the textbook is going to be outdated and only useful for one class, it makes sense to only really have access to it for a small amount of time, but I better not be paying the same price as a physical textbook for it.

I am a digital/traditional artist, and I use Clip Studio Paint for my digital drawings. Clip Studio Paint was one of the best drawing programs due to being a one-time purchase, as well of being an incredible drawing program. After around a decade, CSP will upgrade from version 1.0 to version 2.0. To upgrade from version 1.0 to 2.0 you need to purchase another "perpetual license", and version 1.0 won't be updated anymore (it will get bug fixes). However the shittiest thing is that to update version 2.0 (after you have bought the new perpetual license) you need to purchase a monthly "update pass". CSP is becoming the same as Photoshop and it's really sad.

THE SEXY SWEDISH MAN RETURNS!

This video gave me the weird motivation to start sending bs ads to companies for no real reasons

6:20 Just pay your printer subscription and ink subscription and you can print out that text book. 😂

tip: if a company forces you to pay to unsubscribe, just create a Filter in your email that automatically deletes all emails from that company. If it's a credit card subscription, you can call your bank and ask them to Block all transactions to that company.

Bout to make a petition so that Click keeps wearing such clothes more often 🥴 made me feel more cozy than my bed in Monday mornings

2:50 Not sure about the US, because the people don't really have rights or protective laws there, but you can't do this in most of europe. The EU passed a consumer rights law (that mostly concerns internet subscriptions and stuff) that specifies that people cannot unknowingly sign contracts and you must be given full access to the contract you agree to, or the contract is void.

18:05 I wonder if after cutting trough the packaging the actual angle grinder wouldn't just fit trough the openings in the frame.

Click's voice always makes my mom give me weird looks and check my phone, she doesn't even understand English 💀

Re: textbooks. A lot of the doctors and professors who wrote those books are advising their students to pirate their textbooks these days. So the origin of the content says "just pirate it", the end user says "just pirate it", the publisher in the middle "PAY ME MONEY $$$!".

Fun facts, according to us courts it is illegal for companies not to service your unit after the warranty sticker has been damaged and or removed. The warranty sticker holds no water in court.

changing the serving size is one of the most common tactics to make food appear healthier than it is, even with things like soda bottles

2:20 you can still sue them if anything bad happens, they're just trying to scare the customers.

21:12 I was wearing a shirt today that said:" All mushrooms are edible, but some only once in a life time. "

24:05 I practically started choking from laughing too hard from your voice over of the adblocker being turned off. 🤣 ((Also, the uwu voice for the website sounds remarkably a lot like how you voiced Fluffies 👀))

Food contract: in the US at least, you can't disclaim a food by putting a "cannot sue" liability warning according to a catastrophic injury attorney who accidentally became a RU-vidr, Attorney Tom.

I would send that food-company a bill for the "donation" that was falsely charged, plus a processing fee on my side.

LoL that salad is literally one of those single serving prepackaged deals at the grocery store. There's no way to get 2 meals out of it, little lone 3.5

Lawyer here: For the breaking seal one, im not sure which jurisdiction this is, but you CANNOT contract yourself out of your food safety obligations. They're counting on you not knowing this, though.

26:18 I can speak to the validity of this post. I have had to use Pearson products for years, and yes, it really is basically like spending $70 just so that you can do your homework. I remember the very first product I used, MyMath Lab (or MyLab Math depending on who you ask). It was an absolute abomination of a program and I will never forget the emotional damage that it caused me 😭 Also, just FYI I did the math, and it turns out that according to this rule you are permitted to print only two pages every 5 YEARS (1825 ÷ 365)! Seriously, why and HOW is this a thing?

Why do I want to hug him, now that he has a "normal" shirt on?

Everytime i want to draw i put on some Click/OT videos as background noise, 10/10 help me laugh and concentrate since i need background noise to work:]

As a car geek, I can confirm that putting a tube of toothpaste into your car's fuel tank, will indeed damage your car.

(27:30) Normally I tell people to ignore the size of packaging and check the weight instead. But that doesn't work at restaurants and similar places, because they can for some reason sell without specifying size. I think restaurants should also specify size.

5:23 This actually happened to my mom once. She downloaded a free app (via/from Facebook of course) that would allow her to download wallpapers or something, but she didn’t see that even tho the app was free it has an automatic subscription to it upon downloading. And this confused my father (who mostly keep tracks of the/their economy), and when he/they found out I was also present and being the only somewhat tech-‘wiz’ at the house I was the one to then call, I think it was Apple, to request the money back (and I think maybe also the cancellation of the subscription, tho I don’t remember), and thankfully we were able to get the money back, but both my dad and I were really eyeing my mom for quite awhile after that 😂.

The rare T-shirt Click has graced us with his presence this day 🙏

24:05 I'M DYING- 💀💀💀 The way he delivered those lines lmfao-

Fun fact: saying mango, in Japan, will get you some very funny looks ;) .

Somehow, seeing him in this attire makes me wanna go to bed and listen to his readings while cozy.. The cold seasons really are setting in aren’t they

Ads in good games: (a billboard within the game's world) Ads in utterly shit games: 19:44

Ok so the gift wrapping, I got something like that a few years back. I was only getting one gift, a new phone so my parents wanted it to take longer for me to open. So first was a large wrapped cardboard box In that was another wrapped box And inside that was another wrapped box with a small screwdriver attached to it In the box was a wooden box my dad had made. With about 10 screws I had to unscrew by hand. It took me the next 20 minutes to open it Oh, and if I’d started unscrewing it from the wrong side (two sides of the box had a screwed on panel) I wouldn’t have gotten anywhere because the “wrong side” was also glued down.

You know, the popcorn seasoning really got me... You need to spray for a fifth of a second to get one serving. How am I supposed to do that!

I'm pretty sure while a broken seal can void a warantee, you can't just say "if you open it you agree not to see" and make it true. No such "agreement" can supersede the law. Also, I wanted to order a pizza the other day... price was 14.99. Minimum amount for delivery was 15.00 before tax.

6:15 I had to pay $90 for an access code for a textbook that only lasted the semester. I ended up dropping the course due to covid and retaking it the next semester and so I had to pay another $90. It wasn’t even a good textbook but if I didn’t buy it I couldn’t access the homework.

(15:30) That is illegal in EU. The description must be correct, otherwise the customer can request a refund. You can also agree on a partial refund to keep the product.

(13:05) That's illegal in Sweden. The price tag must be the minimum payment you can make without additional feels

16:48 editor forgor 💀

This is why I don’t like reading nutritional information on a package. Companies always use weasel measurements of servings that no one is going to measure themselves.

28:50 Your videos are also usually 25-45 minutes long, leaving plenty of time for actual content even with plugs. That structure applies mainly to the cookie cutter TEN MINUTE videos that youtube is littered with

16:35 - Since basically everyone with this problem runs Windows - there is a "troubleshooter" by Microsoft just for this, the article is called "Fix problems that block programs from being installed or removed"

I seriously need a video of Click just talking in his average tone because my god I am able to fall asleep so easily to his voice. It is actually super calm and soothing. I actually have seriously bad anxiety when it comes to sleep for some reason and him talking seems to be one of the few things that can ease it.

This is why I prefer yarn and cats. No subscription fees (so far), and I get all the hair-covered hats I want.

I am waiting to run into the kind of asshole design as in the thumbnail, because that's illegal to do and I could sue them.

On the McAfee uninstall error. Several years ago there was some piece of software I was trying. I wasn't impressed so at the end of the free trial period I went to uninstall it. I actually got the message "According to the license you agreed to when you installed this you are not allowed to uninstall the software" That is probably not the exact wording, but they are actually claiming you cannot uninstall the software from your own computer. Like Click, I needed to delete the software, accompanying folders and various registry keys.

Every time I'm feeling depressed you and your gorgeous voice always make me feel a whole lot better ☺️☺️ Thanks click

33:24 the headphones cable… headphones cable… *HEADPHONE CABLE* 😮

The first apartment I lived in had a room with washers and dryers, for the whole floor to use. Multiple of each, at least. Thing is, they were only usable with a card (no cash or coins) and cost just under $3 per load... per machine. So at least $6 for a full wash and dry. Thing is, we'd often have to use two machines at once to get all the laundry done unless we wanted to have dirty laundry sitting around for even longer, so that's at least $12 to get all of it done. Now imagine having to do that each week, four times a month, for a full year. And it was located so far from our apartment that we'd have to lug our laundry halfway across the complex to reach it. My current apartment has a washer/dryer combo that comes with the room and is completely free to use, don't even pay utilities on it. So much nicer.

From experience the “hidden fees” on food ordering apps are often out there by the food establishments to cover the charges levied against them by the app provider for listing on the app.