- This is top secret, Dan.
- It's a top secret formula that's been around since
the 1700's.
They're going to unveil the curtain a little bit
and show us the liquid gold.
Welcome back to What's Inside.
Today, we are very, very far away from home.
So, this last month, YouTube dropped something
incredibly special.
The 100 million subscriber award.
There are two different YouTube channels that hit
100 million subscribers.
YouTube has a lot of different awards whenever
people get different levels of subscribers.
- Yeah, there's like three of them right now.
There's a silver for 100,000,
gold for a million and diamond for 10 million.
- And last year, we went to the YouTube award headquarters
and they showed us where all of the awards are kept.
We kind of broke one with Casey Neistat
in his studio. - Yeah.
Be careful. - It's so heavy.
- No no.
(glass smashes)
- We asked Paul, "Hey, where are you keeping
the 100 million subscriber button?"
We had to travel all day by plane, by train
and now we're here at this train station
in this little town, Baccarat, France.
This is a super small town.
I hope we're in the right place.
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Here's the man.
Here's Paul.
- What's up, Dan?
- This is the award, huh?
- Uh...
- How many of these are there in the world right now?
- Currently, just three.
Two that have already gone out, of course,
and then we've got one right here.
- All right, let's see this thing.
Break it out.
I don't care that we're not inside, I gotta see this thing.
- All right.
(upbeat music)
- Wait, is that it? - Where's the middle of it?
- Well guys, that's why we're here.
We're gonna make it today.
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And that's why I brought you guys halfway around the world.
We're gonna go inside the crystal manufactory
and see how it's made.
- How it's made.
Is this What's Inside or how it's made?
We know that Pewdiepie has one of these.
We know that T-Series has one.
I'm not sure who this one's gonna go for,
but, whoever it is that hits 100 million next,
sounds like we're gonna make your award.
We are at one of the top crystal factories
in the entire world that's been here for like 200 years.
Safety is important here.
What is this?
This is like Santa's Workshop.
- It's crazy how hot it is in here because of all the fires
and stuff.
It's really cool outside.
- What the heck is this place? - It's hot.
It's so hot.
It's been here for 254 years and it's only stopped once.
So, it runs 24 hours a day.
- Holy moly.
(upbeat music)
- All right, here he goes.
He's reaching inside of this.
The fire is 12 hundred degrees inside of there
and he's getting some crystal out.
That's molten crystal.
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They're just making crystals.
It's basically like plaster really, really next level.
It's like a volcano.
It looks like taffy.
You know, when they make like salt, water taffy.
But, it's not.
It is crystal.
Woo, there she is.
This is going to be somebody's
100 million subscriber button, right there.
That pile of crystal.
- It looks like golden jello.
Like glowing jello.
- Golden jello.
This is the YouTube golden jello award.
Once you start this process, you can't stop
because you're working with like molten crystal.
One of the coolest things I've ever seen.
I kind of wanna touch it
but it's 12 hundred degrees Celsius.
I'll put right here what that is in Fahrenheit.
I don't really know.
- Whoa that's going and everything.
What's it doing in there?
- It's actually a cooling system.
So, it goes all the way through here and it comes out
like this.
So, I can actually take the crystal now.
- So, previously, it was glowing red jello,
red jello, now it's green jello.
- It doesn't look that hot, but it's actually
120 degrees Fahrenheit right now so I need to wear gloves.
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We take it now and put it inside of this oven.
Okay.
- We're actually gonna heat it up to about 1000 degrees
Fahrenheit for five hours so that the gold mixture
in the crystal reacts to the heat and it expands.
- Two hours and 30 minutes, it got pink.
Baccarat crystal.
That's why it gets it's red.
Five hours later, we'll be back.
- Wow. - Wow.
- Okay, there it is.
- It was like green jello, now it's like
dark reddish pudding.
- This is after five hours of it sitting here.
Do not wanna drop this.
- Yeah. - You know us.
You know we break things but-
I think it looks kind of like a squished poop emoji.
- That's true.
- I was gonna say cinnamon bun but-
- Cinnamon bun.
They're going to unveil the curtain a little bit for us
and show us the liquid gold that is in there
before they actually put it in the big old kiln
that we saw earlier.
So, we gotta wear masks.
There's chemicals in there.
Top secret liquid gold.
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Inside of this bucket are the beginnings
of all things crystal.
This is a really, really fine sand.
Lincoln, go ahead and touch it.
- Whoa, what in the world?
- Have you ever felt sand like that?
- No, it's like it's not even there but you can feel
the cold.
- This is the secret mixture that's been around
for hundreds of years at Baccarat.
They're not going to tell us exactly what the ingredients
are to make this.
There are a lot of different minerals
that are mixed inside of here and one of them
is the 24 karat gold.
This is the final mixture, it's ready to go.
They're gonna take this and go dump it in the kiln
and then it melts down with the sand, with the gold,
with everything else that's mixed into there
and then that's what makes that crystal
that they take out of the fire.
So, if you really wanna know what's inside
of the YouTube red diamond award,
this is it, right here.
There's something very unique and special about this
Baccarat crystal on the inside.
Inside of this solution,
this is actual liquid gold, right there
that they mix in with all of the sand and the minerals.
So, here's the red diamond.
We've actually cut off the top part of it but this is it.
Linc, can you hold it?
Right now, we're in the finishing lab.
I don't know if that's what they call it.
But, this is the place where they polish and they cut
all of the different crystal.
You guys know that I'm really good with tools
but this is a special award so we've got an expert
with the cutting side of it that can cut this diamond.
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- Okay, they're hot.
So hot.
If I can touch it then I'll hold it.
Oh yeah, there she is.
I feel like we should get like six percent
of one of them anyways
because we're like six percent to 100 million.
- We're gonna cut a very, very, very small piece
off for you.
- Very small.
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The last step.
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Paul, we got it.
- Oh, awesome.
- Okay, so that should fit in there.
Let's see.
- Do I like, put it in?
- Yeah.
Let's see if it fits.
Don't break it, Lincoln.
- A little more on the side.
There you go.
- It fits.
- Does it fit?
- This is before we glue it.
- Okay.
We are 93 million subscribers away
from actually getting one of these awards.
I've had an idea for where I wanna put it because maybe
some of you guys wanna see this thing.
We've made some arrangements.
But first, we don't want anybody to steal this from us
so Lincoln-
- No, no, no, no.
- Oh, that didn't work.
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- Oh my gosh.
Seriously, it's so heavy.
- It is so heavy.
Okay, I hope you guys liked our little montage
of us traveling from Baccarat to here.
Lincoln was a trooper.
This thing is like 35, 40 pounds.
Right now, we're in the Baccarat museum
which is in Paris.
Like actually, legit, in Paris.
And the reason why we brought it here is because
there's only two of these red diamond awards
in the entire world.
Pewdiepie and T-Series.
I'm sure more people will hit it some day,
but we thought, what a cool idea to actually put one
in a place where you guys can come see it.
Briefcase, let's get these handcuffs off.
These are some like cheap handcuffs that we got
that we thought looked cool.
All right, Paul's got the fancy gloves and uh...
- He looks like a detective, doesn't he?
- He does look like a detective.
- Or like a burglar.
- Or a burglar.
We're like in a jewelry store right now basically.
We're gonna set it right here.
We have this entire corner out of this room.
Look at all these different vase
with just crystal everywhere.
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- Yes.
That looks awesome.
Oh, yeah. - Just final finish bits.
- Finishing touches.
- All right, here we go.
This is one of my favorite things, I think,
we do at YouTube.
You know, the awards program is all about celebrating
and recognizing creators.
Whether you're trying to reach 100,000 or 100 million
subscribers, we know how much hard work goes
into getting one of these.
We try and reflect that with what we've done here.
With the detail that goes into these awards.
When you guys saw, with working with Baccarat,
and society awards, we think this is so prestigious.
We want everyone to get a chance to come and see it
and get inspired.
- So, if you guys wanna come to Paris
and the Baccarat Museum, it will be here.
You can come and see it, which is so cool.
- Come to Paris, check it out.
We're still trying to get our 10 million.
We were able to touch the 100 million
but we're super grateful for all the awards
that we've been able to receive from YouTube
and for all of you guys that watch our channel.
So, thank you YouTube, thank you to the viewers
and yeah, come check it out.
- This little car comes by.
Hey.
- Woo.