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Ireland"Crackgate," not Hingegate: penguinz0 takes on the iPhone Duo's split screens
Charlie moves from iFixit's teardown clips to the Reddit commenters who suspect a cracked display was made by AI.
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iPhone Duo Problem is Getting Worse
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- 0:00Charlie says he just learned of the iPhone Duo's release through JerryRigEverything's durability and teardown videos.
- 0:33He explains the controversy, known online as Hingegate or Crackgate, over screens cracking consistently.
- 2:24SAMTIME's clips document many Duo screens cracked along the hinge line.
- 3:40iFixit teardown footage suggests the hinge mechanism pinches the display from underneath.
- 5:23Charlie asks whether costly out-of-warranty screen repairs work in Apple's financial favor.
- 9:38An Australian owner's cracked-screen post meets Reddit commenters who call it an AI fake.
Apple's first foldable already has two nicknames for its problem, and penguinz0 has picked his. "I prefer the Crackgate nomenclature," Charlie says early in "iPhone Duo Problem is Getting Worse," a commentary about reports of iPhone Duo screens splitting along the fold.
He starts with a confession: he only just learned the phone was out, and he caught up through JerryRigEverything's durability and teardown videos. From there he plays clips from SAMTIME's "The iPhone Duo Situation Is Getting Bad," which gathers one cracked display after another, all along the hinge line. The iFixit teardown footage that follows suggests the hinge mechanism presses on the display from underneath. One close-up of a crack reminds Charlie of "Freddy Krueger coming through the wall on Nightmare on Elm Street."
The second half turns from the phone to its defenders. Using a clip from Dolan Darkest's "How Are These People Real," Charlie reads Reddit replies to an Australian owner who posted a screen that cracked within six hours of ownership. Some commenters answered that the photo must be AI-generated. "For some people, it's a religion," Charlie says, and he has little patience for that kind of loyalty.
His sharper point concerns money. Apple is replacing defective units under warranty, he notes, but he asks what owners will pay once repairs are no longer covered. "What incentive does a company have to give you something that works, you know, forever?"
The video drew around 1.4 million views in its first nine hours, and its comment section had already passed what his regular videos usually collect in a full day. The talk there keeps coming back to Samsung's many generations of foldables and the cost of a replacement screen.
It is one of three new penguinz0 uploads since Monday. The others cover a $1 million trading-card heist and the end of the Bleach anime after two decades.
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What viewers say
"You're folding it wrong"
- Apple, probably@Irgendwas_geistreichesSee it on YouTubeThe screen repair costs more than a new iPhone. Now I get the name. It's called the Duo because you pay for it twice.
@standbystaticliveSee it on YouTubeApple had 7 generations of foldables to learn from.
@PotatoWFSee it on YouTube
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"Apple redditor" is a phrase that could send shivers down the spine of the strongest sailors.
@MistressoftreesSee it on YouTubeFirst time being terminally online , kinda nervous
@DacheesegoblinSee it on YouTube2000 dabloons for a badly shaped phone that springlocks itself.
@FREELOOSee it on YouTubeThis is why the EU has a mandatory minimum warranty of 2 years on all electronics.
@EpidoxSee it on YouTubeThey said "perfection takes time" when people called it 6 years late 😭
@edeneedemSee it on YouTube
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Whose durability and teardown videos does Charlie say first showed him the iPhone Duo?
At the very start of the video, Charlie says he caught up on the phone by watching JerryRigEverything's durability and teardown videos.