"Hardcore vaping" electronic cigarette video review is full of both nicotine and LOL

Please don't tell anyone that this is, in fact, a completely fake "e-liquid" review for the electronic cigarette/vaping community created by prolific video-lulz creator Liam Lynch. It would be better for the internet if everyone believes it's real.

RavenVapes5v510 does yet another e-liquid review for a rare Mega-level nicotine RY4 by Vapor Station. RavenVapes5v510 is a hardcore, experienced vaper that resides in Los Angeles, California. He has been vaping for 7 years and reviews a wide range of vaping liquids, devices and accessories. RavenVapes5v510 in no way cares about your comments or discussing/debating his opinions.

Video Link. Between you and I only, RavenVapes5v510 is Liam Lynch.

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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Anonymous

I love E-cigs, so these guys can do whatever they want if they run online stores supplying me.

I’ve been using one for the last three weeks and have been down to just two normal smokes per day since the first 24hours. Remarkable.

What’s more, there’s FLAVOURS. User-definable strengths, user-definable flavour combinations. It’s mindboggling.

I’ve got no intention of giving up – I just like smoking in a 21st century way, like Dr Manhattan would want us to.
JasonsRobot

That guy is genius. LOVE his demeanor and casual use of super-specific lingo.

On a related note: I accidentally quit smoking using an e-cig.
Trotsky

My preferred rig is an HP inkjet printer modified to accept Glade Sense-and-Spray air fresheners filled with ferret musk, distilled vinegar, and unadulterated capsaicin, all carried in a relatively compact and innocuous fanny pack. A harness secures the printing heads of the device to my bare ass and the entire text of Jonathan Livingston Seagull is aromatherapeutically tattooed onto my asshole as I walk down the street.

It’s powered by the peristaltic spasms of my gluteus maximus in much the same way that regenerative braking functions in a hybrid car.
- Kibo
  
  Trotsky: Don’t forget to use wires made out of oxygen-free copper. That makes sure you’ll only generate _good_ colloidal silver atoms, not like everyone else’s _bad_ colloidal silver atoms!
  
  (I make all my colloidal silver out of bacon bits and marshmallows. Sure, it doesn’t come out looking silver, and it doesn’t have the flavor of silver, or any of silver’s chemical properties, but I say it’s the only thing keeping second-hand vaping from killing me.)
Anonymous

And then I’m reading this post by Xeni on Boing Boing that she says is full of nicotine and LOL and I’m like …

Whatever!

This is my United States of Whatever!
dole

You know, folks, if you’re like me, hot summer days mean two things: one, long hours in the BACKSEAT OF A POLICE CRUISER … and two, wishin’ I had some chicken-flavored air conditioning!
knijon

Even without knowing it was a spoof, I would have gladly watched this. I didn’t even realize vaping existed until just now and I still found myself strangely intrigued by the video.
ghostronix

Yawn.
- Xeni Jardin
  
  I yawn at your yawn.
  - ghostronix
    
    -hangs head in shame-
knijon

Oh shit, hadn’t even gotten to the best part (5:40) when I first commented.
retortyreg

Horse? Dog? What was that for?
narrowstreetsLA

I miss Sifl & Olly.
- JavaMoose
  
  Me too! Loved that show and I’m not even a pothead (nor was I then). So funny.
- General Specific
  
  Specifically, I miss Chester.
  - narrowstreetsLA
    
    Chester! I miss that little fella. Someone get him a sandwich (or lap dance) already.
- Anonymous
  
  Buy my lice monkeys!!!
Anonymous

I remember when he used to do REAL juice reviews.

The perfect scores for free stuff is bogus.

No way was that horse a 10!
Halloween Jack

Xeni, I’m guessing that this guy is riffing off of skoalrebel, proprietor of a (sadly now-defunct) YouTube channel in which he reviewed flavored “dipping” (chewing) tobacco and, in the memorable video linked above, ranted against Obama for something regarding the marketing and/or taxation of such stuff.
- Anonymous
  
  “ranted against Obama for something regarding the marketing and/or taxation of such stuff.”
  
  As someone that *did* vote for Obama and holds a ton of liberal views, I am still a bit pissed for the legislation against “flavored” tobacco like clove cigs/kreteks when menthol remains untouched. Obviously the smaller industries were dipping into the profits of the US tobacco congloms. The revised “clove cigars” are fairly unsmokeable.
snackbar

I own the Vapor Spot, a Vapor Showroom in Culver City, CA. I see a wide range of smokers in my first few months of business. Everything from the pack a day Camels to the “only have one when drinking” people. The mall kiosks, the EMO doucher, the 22 year old slacker give the science a bad name. I firmly believe that these device will reshape the industry as we know it. The LA Times recently ran a very unbiased article that equated it to 95% less harmful than traditional cigarette smoke.Obviously its a choice and a smoking alternative for each user to make. But many people find that its similar enough to satiate their cravings. People are pretty subjective though, and these reviews don’t help. I admit, some of the devices and the unethical reviews really chap my hide. We can all agree that this guy is a douche. But PLEASE don’t think that he represents the future for these smoke free devices. Regular folks, some with medical conditions, have been interested in these. My whole store is focused on smoke-free living. At the Vapor Spot, I sell Vapor Cigarettes in zero to high levels of nicotine, and a ton of different flavors like peach, chocolate and cherry. The new revolution in science is here, and between the Peppermint flavored Oxygen, Clean Herbal Vaporizers and Vapor Cigarettes, smokers finally have ALTERNATIVES. At The Vapor Spot, I also offer Vapor Consultations where in a very upscale showroom, the client can sample differing vapor cigarettes, vaporized herbs, and flavored oxygen. There is real science here, but please don’t let the image as its been so far influence your decision. My Vapor Showroom is more Madmen inspired with a retro 60′s NASA theme. I encourage research and if you must sample, please visit The Vapor Spot for a Vapor Consultation if near Los Angeles. (bit of a plug i know, but I feel I have an expert level perspective on Vapor and my showroom is my credentials. thanks…3855 Hughes Ave, 90232) http://www.thevaporspot.com/
Xeni Jardin

I blogged him before, yes, I remember! I’ll have to ask Liam if this is true.
Halloween Jack

P.S. Oh wow, there really is a vaping community, or at least the attempt at one, and people doing this sort of thing for realz. They’re the new juggalos!
jimh

I absolutely this. So funny. “Niquid” especially. He gives it the perfect amount of nearly incomprehensible “Vape jargon” and GFY attitude. GROW UP PEOPLE!
i_prefer_yeti

This whole thing was a bit of a snoozefest for me until comment no. 20 rolled around. Now I’m wanting to exhale some fuckin’ running x-ray dogs and shit.

Sign me up for a Vapor Consultation, stat.