Last night my 11-year-old daughter showed me videos of her favorite YouTube stars. My favorite of her favorites is Bunny Meyer, a young woman from Pearland, Texas who buys gadgets advertised on TV and demonstrates them on her video series "Does This Thing Really Work?" I couldn't stop watching these videos because Bunny does a great job of testing the products — plastic ice cream makers, detangling brushes, cat toys, magic tricks, and tip-proof snack bowls. As you might expect, most of the products she tests are garbage — they are difficult to assemble, are made from fragile materials, and don't work. She is doing a great service in revealing how shoddy these infomercial products are. My daughter said Bunny has taught her to avoid "As Seen on TV" products.
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