Factory Factory - TV Tropes

Factory Factory is an AI-driven stream on Twitch that focuses on how various things (ranging from common items such as potato chips, tires, computers and especially laptops, to weird, seemingly made up ones such as "hamburger pants") are made in an assembly line by showing a (random) step-by-step process. Request streams, which contain episodes that are based on the viewers' suggestions, are common occurrences, and the narrator is Barney Calhoun from Half-Life.

The creator of the streams eventually chose to end them on July 2023.

Its Twitch channel is right here.

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"On this episode, we're gonna talk about the following tropes":

• Broken Record: At the beginning of "Peppino from Pizza Tower teaches the narrator to make pizza", one of the narrator's sentences ends up repeating the word pentagon several times in a row:

  Narrator: "The narrator is pent up for pizza and decides to ask pent up pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pentagon pent"

• Excuse Plot: "The final episode of Factory Factory" begins with a story of villains getting closer to a small town that will be destroyed forever unless the townsfolk can save the day by finding and bringing back the factory. Given the AI-driven nature of the episode (as per usual), this is done solely to establish a plot that isn't even remotely brought up again.
• Informed Attribute: The items that are brought up in the episodes are always shown on the screen as white, 4-dimensional geometric shapes (often in the form of cubes), lacking any of the details that are discussed by the narrator.
• No Animals Were Harmed: In "Oops, it looks like number 4 was accidentally repeated! Here's a replacement", the first step mentions that the manufacturing process starts with a magical unicorn horn that's collected from a magical forest where unicorns roam around freely. The narrator follows up by stating that "no unicorns were harmed in the making of this product."
• Rhyming Episode: There's a good portion of episodes in which the steps are written in rhyming prose, such as "gamer, but a poem".
• Shout-Out: In "how to make hamburgers, but as let the bodies hit the floor chorus lyrics", step 8 is said in the style of Drowning Pool's "Let the Bodies Hit The Floor":

  Narrator: "Let the patties hit the grill, let the patties hit the floor!"

• Strictly Formula: Every episode revolves around the process of how something is made.
• Synthetic Voice Actor: The narrator of the videos is provided by Uberduck, an AI-driven text-to-speech service. Its version of Barney Calhoun's voice is often used, but Sheldon J. Plankton's has also seen usage in the past.