I Did a Thing

Much of Apollonov's content involves using his engineering and fabrication skills to design and build a variety of projects, including recreating the Utah monolith in Australia, simulating the Aurora Borealis in his kitchen with a high voltage transformer to parody The Simpsons, and making a scaled-up chainsaw powered Beyblade with a giant circular blade that is spun by a chainsaw motor.

Other projects have included building a laser guided drone that drops steel darts[2] creating a hammer that uses blank rounds to drive nails,[3] and mounting a submachine gun to a robot dog.

[5] Many of Apollonov's videos also star fellow comedian Aleksa Vulović, as the two are close friends and often work on their individual projects with help from one another.

[8] Before starting his career as a comedian and YouTube personality, Apollonov began six separate university degrees and failed to complete any of them.

He also held over thirteen jobs, eleven of which he was fired from for reasons such as eating cheese from a restaurant's fridge, giving his friends free drinks, and failing to turn up to work.

Much of the content centered around myth-busting sensationalist claims in Australian media, while also using comedy to bring light to issues of such as climate change, colonialism, police violence, and racism.

[14] During their investigation, neither Apollonov and Vulović could find any evidence to support the claims of government-mandated hairstyles and came to the conclusion that these stories were most likely fake.

[20] In one attempt, Vulović tried entering the casino while dressed in hospital surgical garbs, dragging an IV drip stand on wheels, with a high forehead temperature.

[21] "When I rocked up with my hospital gown and drip, the first thing they asked me was whether I had a Star Casino gold membership card".

When asked about possible legal repercussions over their comedic stunt, Vulović replied: "There's no point suing us, we already lost all our savings on big wheel during our filming breaks".

[22] Vulović and Apollonov were subsequently given life bans from entering casinos operated by Star Entertainment Group.

[9] Among other projects, Apollonov has created steel-toed Crocs, experimented with planting trees using rockets, trained wild lizards to eat cockroaches in his home, crafted a flamethrower and a speargun from trash around his house, and snuck into an arms dealing conference.

[27][28] In early 2022, Apollonov got involved in a clash with the former host of Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson, over the latter's attempt to trademark the phrase "I did a thing".

"[31]He revealed in a later video that he had built a vibrating cheating device to put in the pants of a chess player (originally intended for Aleksa Vulović, then later used by Myth) as a parody of the Carlsen–Niemann controversy (This was used in Ludwig Ahgren's Mogul Chess-boxing event).

Speaking on the mixed success of putting a gun on a robot dog, Apollonov concluded:"I intended to come here and make something really dangerous, but I've now realized that I can't compete with normal, everyday American life.