Folding phones have a bit of a public relations issue regarding durability. Past examples of folding phones have sometimes delaminated. Such is life for an early adopter of a new technology.

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 was just launched a couple of weeks ago, and so naturally, we’ve all wondered how well it will fare with long-term use. Now there’s a video of a YouTuber who folded and unfolded one 200,001 times.

Check out how it did, when it failed, and why a weird, black liquid oozed out of it…

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a torture test

No, the YouTube channel presenter didn’t build a machine to open and close the Galaxy Z Fold7. That’d have been a hell of a lot easier, and probably gentler on one’s sanity, but he said at one point that he wanted to replicate real-world usa

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