Unboxing videos on YouTube

Aren't these the biggest dick waving videos ever?  Their sole purpose is, "I got this and you don't".   If you get a new console and you want to show the UI and other points of connectivity after you've had a chance to do it yourself, then Kool and the Gang.  However, if you dedicate a 5 minute video to a story on your F5 refresh on Amazon.com marathon, the UPS box, the console box proper, the boxcutter used to open the UPS box, and its scale as compared to your other consoles without turning the damned thing on, then it's all Napoleon Complex to me.

Uh...no. 

I do my unboxing vids due to the interest of others as well as myself.

i like them.
in the past week i watched unboxing videos for a sansa fuze, ipod nano, and ipod touch.
i also watch the food network or look at flickr pictures of food when i'm hungry.
i will keep doing this until i have enough money to buy electronics no one really needs.
it's enjoying shit via someone else.

porn goes into this same category as well, and i bet you, me, and everyone else on here has like 30 external harddrives dedicated to that shit.

No, i find these videos pretty entertaining.
We all know how exciting it is when something we ordered finally arrives in the mailbox and you want to tell the whole world of how cool it is.
It's a natural thing.
I really like it to watch these videos.

I watch them because I am curious on how it looks and works//functions. Not because they are being a dick about their possesions. If they did I would close the video right away.

Personally i get alot of enjoyment out of certain peoples unboxing vids, while some are as mentioned bragging vids. I'd recommend CheapyD's unboxing videos if i had to choose one, those are always entertaining!

Not at all, they can be a good watch, especially when you are waiting on stuff via mail order. it's nice to know what you will soon be getting and what it comes with, how it all works etc. I know from personal experience that when I've got something that would normally require looking at a manual, I have instead been able to connect everything up in a instant.

Unboxing video's are pretty dumb unless the person unboxing it has a clear confident speaking voice and isn't a total dork. Which is rarely the case.

If it's an unboxing of a product I'm interested in buying myself, then those videos are really interesting to watch.

I like watching unboxing video's so I have to say no.