With the internet continuing to spin out of control with content these days, it can be hard to keep up with all the content. Meme culture, social media, and interpersonal communication continues to develop so rapidly that if you blink you may miss the latest trend.
Where the heck did TikTok suddenly come from?!
Saying that, there are some elements of the internet that you can always rely on as constants. For example, we’ll never get bored of ”oddly satisfying” videos.
Oddly satisfying videos feature some sort of subject matter that is just nice to watch. There’s no real explanation for why it’s satisfying to see a hockey skate lace being made, it just is. Some of the most satisfying videos to watch are of absolute destruction. Peaceful, controlled obliteration.
Enter Alex DeBrincat, forward for the Chicago Blackhawks. In a video posted by the NHL, DeBrincat can be seen shooting pucks at extremely delicate, carefully handled items and absolutely destroying them in the process.
Why is this so satisfying to watch? Is it the irony of purposefully obliterating something so beautiful and carefully constructed? Is it the chaos of not knowing how the object will destruct, or whether the puck will even hit it? Is it the surfacing of some sort of innate deviance that we mostly keep bottled up in our day to day lives?
Who knows, but we’re here for it. Who needs ice sculptures anyway? Ice is for hockey.
(H/T YouTube/NHL)
