THRISSUR: YouTube has given an honor-a golden play button-to Dinu, a native of Mapranam, who has become a children's favourite by unboxing sweet packets.

Only candy packets are shown in the video. Millions of kids watch it. Their wishes sometimes arrive as messages.

'Hi ...... Next week is my birthday. Daddy and Mummy are busy. No time to even buy me a bar of chocolate. Can you please send me my favorite Cadburys as birthday present ....?', asked a little girl named Marcheen in the Philippines. Dinu sent the kid a box full of chocolates !.

Dinu, the son of the late Devdas, is a YouTube user who gained one million subscribers in August 2018 through videos unboxing candies and cookies the way children want them to. The gold play button is given when the subscriber count crosses the one million mark. Dinu claims to own the record of the most viewed video made by a YouTube user in Kerala (141 million).

A room full of candy

Boo Boo TV, a toy and candy packet channel, was launched five years ago. A variety of candies and cookies will be unboxed and displayed in a specially equipped room at home. No sound or face is shown in the video. Two years after the launch of the channel, a video became a hit. If it took three years to become one lakh subscribers, it only took the next nine months to reach ten lakh.

One video will be made in a week. The money is used to buy candies. Friends often send candy packages from abroad.

Started from nests, now shining on YouTube

After getting a diploma in Mechanical Engineering and not getting a job, Dinu started making and selling chicken coops and various bird nests. He then turned to YouTube and began making videos for children.

The channel currently has 1.97 million subscribers. At least one million people watch videos every day. So far, 371 videos have been uploaded. A total of 927.77 million views. This is also a record. Dinu is supported by his mother Mallika and sister Devika.