Cody Reeder

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Cody Reeder
Personal information
Born
Utah, United States
NationalityAmerican
OccupationYouTube personality, mechanic
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2011–present
GenreScience, educational, vlog
Subscribers2.03 million (main channel)[1]
(6 December 2021)
Total viewsc. 318 million (main channel)[1]
(6 December 2021)
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg 100,000 subscribers 2015
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg 1,000,000 subscribers 2017

Cody Don Reeder[nb 1] is an American educator, scientist, mechanic and YouTube personality. He runs the popular YouTube channel Cody'sLab.[8][9][10]

Animated time-lapse of the 2020 great conjunction, composed of frames taken over the course of 90 days by Cody.

Life[]

Reeder was born and raised near Grantsville, Utah,[11] on "an off grid ranch in the west desert".[7][12] He has studied geology at Westminster College and Utah State University,[11] and worked as a mechanic.[7]

Experiments[]

Having joined YouTube in 2011, Reeder initially began posting videos of his experiments to show to his grandmother: "I would do science experiments all the time anyway ... Then other people started watching them", he explained in a 2017 interview.[3]

His channel Cody'sLab reached 100,000 subscribers in October 2015. Having not received his silver play button six months later, Reeder celebrated reaching 250,000 subscribers by forging a homemade play button out of genuine silver.[13] He reached 1,000,000 subscribers in early 2017.[14]

Reeder first gained considerable media attention in 2016, after posting a video of himself drinking water containing a small, diluted amount of cyanide. The purpose was to prove how the dosage defines toxicity.[2] While emphasizing that the amount he consumed (17 mg) was considerably smaller than any lethal dose, Reeder said he did experience certain effects such as rapid breathing. This video, among others, has since been removed from his channel. Similar experiments however, such as him drinking heavy water, "hydric acid" (tongue-in-cheek), and breathing in all the noble gases, remain available as of January 2021.

In 2017, his channel was suspended for two weeks, following received strikes. The reason was suspected to be a video on the science behind how small insects (Reeder used fruit flies, of unspecified species) can survive being microwaved, while larger ones cannot.[9] Preceding the suspension, an increase in flagged videos and concern that his account may be deactivated, prompted Reeder to create a back-up channel.[15] An article on TubeFilter blamed "overzealous viewers" for generating the automatic strikes, writing that Reeder's channel is both "wholesome and family-friendly", and commenting on how YouTube's strike system also affects those "who stay well within the bounds of acceptable content".[10]

In a 2019 video explaining a period of channel inactivity, Reeder mentioned how some of his videos, although intended to be used for educational purposes, had been flagged by YouTube, showing a warning he received for a video on making gunpowder from urine. In the same video, Reeder explained how he also had been visited by United States government agents, after publishing several videos on isotope isolation and nuclear radiation. The agents, equipped with geiger counters, did not find anything of concern, and Reeder himself said that they were only trying to help him not get in trouble in the future.[16]

He has also received media attention after becoming one of the 100 finalists of the abortive Mars One project, having been selected from over 200,000 applicants.[11][12]

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ While certain news articles,[2][3] as well his official Facebook page, list his name as "Cody Don", he is listed as "CodyDon" in other articles,[4][5][6] as well as on his YouTube and Twitter. He is simply listed as Cody Reeder on the Mars One Project's pages,[7] as well as both "Cody Don" and just "Cody" in Newsweek and CNET.[8][9]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "About Cody'sLab". YouTube.
  2. ^ a b Limer, Eric (17 October 2016). "Mad Scientist Drinks Cyanide on Camera". Popular Mechanics. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  3. ^ a b Brooks, David (27 March 2017). "Urine, bees, explosions: Science can be a lot of fun on YouTube". Concord Monitor. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  4. ^ Delbert, Caroline (18 Feb 2020). "Watch What Happens When You Drop an Iron Anvil in a Vat of Liquid Mercury". Popular Mechanics. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  5. ^ Fernandes, Thamyris (28 September 2018). "Vídeo mostra como é possível ferver água até virar gelo" (in Portuguese). Segredos do Mundo. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  6. ^ "Ar žinote, kad, skrendant lėktuvui į rytus būsite sunkesni nei į vakarus?" (in Lithuanian). Alfa. 2017-04-07. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  7. ^ a b c "CODY". Mars One. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  8. ^ a b Kooser, Amanda (10 Nov 2017). "Can you stand on liquid mercury? Watch a scientist try". CNET. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  9. ^ a b c Medrano, Kastalia (6 November 2017). "What Was the 'Inappropriate Content' That Got Cody Reeder Kicked Off YouTube?". Newsweek. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  10. ^ a b Gutelle, Sam (6 Nov 2017). "Popular YouTube Science Channel Cody's Lab Struggles Under The Weight Of Multiple Content Strikes". TubeFilter. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  11. ^ a b c "USU's Mars Star: Undergrad Among 100 Finalists for Red Planet Mission". Utah State University. 26 Feb 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  12. ^ a b Knox, Annie (18 February 2015). "Utah student makes 'Mars 100' cut" (archived). Salt Lake City Tribune. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  13. ^ "Making My Own Play Button For 250K Subscribers". Cody'sLab. YouTube. 11 May 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  14. ^ "Cesium Play Button For 1,000,000 Subscribers!". Cody'sLab. YouTube. 11 March 2017. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  15. ^ "Backup Channel Explanation". Cody'SBLab. YouTube. 6 November 2017. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  16. ^ "What's Been Going On With Cody'sLab?". Cody'sLab. YouTube. 22 May 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
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